Building Energy Assessment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2020) | Viewed by 9960
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy; sustainability; alternative fuels; LCA
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to invite you to submit your most recent research on the assessment of energy-related aspects in buildings to this Special Issue.
Even though the attention given to energy consumption in buildings and building construction has increased over the last years to the point that zero energy buildings represent the target for policies in many countries, improvements are still not keeping up with the growing buildings sector and rising demand for energy services at a global level.
Technical and policy measures in order to encourage energy efficiency and the use of renewables during the different life cycle phases of a residential, commercial or service building (product, construction, use and end-of-life) remain the main challenges, not only in developing countries.
In order to identify opportunities for dealing with these challenges and improving the energy-related aspects associated with the building sector, better energy data for benchmarking as well as tools for assessment are needed. In addition, when used to design decision support and optimization processes, both the data and results should be accurate enough to avoid misleading design decisions and to improve optimization steps.
The aim of this Special Issue is to gain knowledge about recent indicators and procedures proposed for the energy assessment of buildings. One of the most interesting aspects is their feasibility, for instance with regard to ensuring the adequacy and persistence of energy efficiency savings in the whole life cycle of the building, in evaluating installations and actions related to smart energy management, or in modelling the energy behavior of new and existing buildings under different perspectives. The use of building energy assessment methods in a regulatory context for the enhancement of incentives, financing and market mechanisms (energy certification schemes, environmental labelling and rating, etc.) is also a relevant matter.
These are just some of the topics that this Special Issue will try to address, but clearly we are aware that the theme opens multiple approaches to different areas of building energy analysis, including model calibration, life cycle analysis, building stock analysis, impact and adaptation to climate change, sensitivity analysis, spatial analysis and optimization.
It is believed that this Special Issue can contribute to the design and implementation of energy efficiency policies in buildings thanks to the generation of consistent and reliable energy data as the International Energy Agency suggests.
Prof. Dr. Eva Llera-Sastresa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Building energy consumption
- Building energy systems
- Energy efficiency
- Energy savings
- Building retrofit
- Building performance
- Building simulation
- Energy data accuracy
