Trends and Prospects in Nearly Zero-Energy 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: 29 November 2024 | Viewed by 1102
Special Issue Editor
Interests: buildings; thermal comfort; climate change; energy efficiency
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For decades, academics have promoted and researched the idea of low energy or net zero buildings, and a few examples have been constructed. However, the mass move to zero has not happened. In this Special Issue we ask, why? This will be achieved through papers that examine the limits of low energy buildings, be they materials, architecture, or society/policy. New ways of looking at the problem will be particularly welcome, for example, simple energy models that can be used by architects, or the way that finance or the media can be used to encourage the mass roll-out of low carbon buildings.
Prof. Dr. David Coley
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- low-energy buildings
- net zero
- energy modeling
- society
- architecture
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