Efficient Low Carbon Buildings and Districts
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 2999
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building physics; building energy systems; envelope; HVAC; sustainability; renewable energy
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Interests: building physics; building energy systems; envelope; HVAC; sustainability; renewable energy
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Interests: green roofs; green solutions; energy saving in buildings; photovoltaic systems; innovative air-conditioning systems; dynamic simulation of buildings and plants; experimental analysis of thermal properties
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Efficient Low Carbon Buildings and Districts”.
Recent efforts promulgated by communitarian and national legislations to provide more sustainable development strategies strongly affect the construction sector, widely acknowledged to be a major player in the world primary energy consumption and CO2 emission.
The building sector has strongly focused, on one hand, on the research and development of more efficient and performant building envelope solutions, and on the other hand, on the improvement of air-conditioning plants with a strong propulsion toward the use of renewable sources.
At present, it is more than indispensable to approach the building design and operation in a more holistic way, considering the essential and fundamental building–plant interaction. Recent advancements in this sector have proposed innovative air-conditioning solutions that combine several energy sources and allow rationally managing and controlling building energy requirements and use. Furthermore, the recent attention and shift toward a smart grid concept, where management of production and consumption of electricity among prosumers is essential, requires maximum exploitation of renewable energy sources. A similar prospect seems even more important considering recent European regulations that compel the sole construction of nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB). Buildings will therefore necessarily have to take part in the management of smart grids, on the base of the communication with the grid manager, applying strategies of demand-side management (DSM).
This Special Issue will deal with topics related to modeling and simulation of innovative building–plant configurations, with the aim to reach low carbon building with zero or positive energy demand in single buildings, districts and energy communities. Experimental analysis of real case applications will also provide useful and interesting insight into the energy performance of proposed systems and solutions.
Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:
- Building energy demand reduction;
- Zero and positive energy districts;
- Passive systems for the building envelope;
- Demand-side management (DSM) for building energy use optimization;
- Solar-assisted heat pump to increase renewable use in buildings;
- Smart air conditioning plant for building energy minimization;
- Hybrid plants based on renewable sources;
- Energy storage system for building application.
Prof. Dr. Natale Arcuri
Prof. Roberto Bruno
Dr. Piero Bevilacqua
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Passive systems
- Energy savings
- Energy storage system
- Renewable energy
- Demand-side management (DSM)
- Smart grids
- Energy districts
- Air-conditioning plant
- nZEB
- Building envelope
- Energy demand
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