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Environmental Comfort and Energy Consumption in Buildings

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 3167

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Carmen Marín Buzón

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Departamento de Ingeniería Gráfica, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
Interests: photogrammetry; UAV; geomatics; energy; construction; engineering

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, we have experienced an increase in temperatures caused by climate change. The warming of the planet is caused by our misuse of the energies that exist on the planet. In order to alleviate this problem, energies that do not increase the temperature of the planet must be used.

In construction, materials that reduce this increase in temperature, such as primers and paints, are being used in buildings.

We must contribute to research with resources that mitigate climate change and at the same time improve construction in an effective way.

Dr. Carmen Marín Buzón
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • energy
  • construction
  • climate change
  • materials
  • temperature
  • insulation in buildings

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A Wind Protection Design Strategy for Airport Terminal Door Bucket Space Based on Wind Environment Simulations
by Lu Yang, Wentao Lai, Gaoning Yan and Meng Zhen
Buildings 2024, 14(2), 344; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14020344 - 26 Jan 2024
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Airport terminal buildings are large public transportation buildings with complex functions and dense crowds, and the wind environment has significant effects on passenger comfort and the energy consumption of air conditioning systems. In this study, we investigated Xianyang T3 Terminal as an example [...] Read more.
Airport terminal buildings are large public transportation buildings with complex functions and dense crowds, and the wind environment has significant effects on passenger comfort and the energy consumption of air conditioning systems. In this study, we investigated Xianyang T3 Terminal as an example and used the Phoenics software to conduct comprehensive simulations based on different door bucket forms and parameters, as well as comprehensively considering the impacts of different outdoor wind environments. A terminal door bucket windproof design strategy was proposed based on our results. The results showed that door buckets could effectively reduce the entry of outdoor wind, and built-in door buckets performed the best. The width of the door bucket should be set to 9.3–11.3 m and the depth of the door bucket to 6.7–7.7 m. The height of the door bucket had little impact. A side door should be added to the door bucket, so it can be opened when the outdoor wind speed is high, and a mechanical ventilation system should be introduced to improve the indoor ventilation. Full article
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Enhancing Building Energy Efficiency through Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) Integration: A Systematic Review
by Mohammed Alhammad, Matt Eames and Raffaele Vinai
Buildings 2024, 14(3), 581; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14030581 - 22 Feb 2024
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With the ever-increasing population and historic highest energy demand, the energy efficiency of buildings is becoming crucial. Architectural firms are moving from traditional Computer-Aided Design (CAD) to BIM. However, nearly 40% of the energy consumption is due to buildings. Therefore, there is a [...] Read more.
With the ever-increasing population and historic highest energy demand, the energy efficiency of buildings is becoming crucial. Architectural firms are moving from traditional Computer-Aided Design (CAD) to BIM. However, nearly 40% of the energy consumption is due to buildings. Therefore, there is a need to integrate BIM with Building Energy Modeling (BEM), which presents an innovative opportunity to demonstrate the potential of BIM to minimize energy consumption by integrating building information software with data from existing energy-efficient building automation systems (EBAS). BEM is a form of computational analysis that can be used in conjunction with BIM or Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) systems. In this paper, an attempt has been made to explore the existing literature on BIM and BEM and identify the effect of the integration of BEM in BIM in the design phase of the project. A recent survey from the last ten years (2012 to 2023) was carried out on Google Scholar, Web of Science, Science Direct, and Scopus databases. Inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied, and papers were scrutinized. From the results, it can be observed that the convergence of BIM and BEM is found to be useful in practical applications; however, projects with short life cycles might not be suitable for this solution. Challenges exist in the interoperability tools which have restrictions on data exchange. Binary translation is found to be the most suitable candidate for data exchange. The analysis further showed that the most used program for integrating BIM/BEM is Green Building Studio developed by Autodesk to improve construction and operational efficiencies. Full article
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