Energy Efficient Buildings and Green Buildings 2020
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2020) | Viewed by 6882
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy-efficient buildings; green building design; building energy analysis; application of renewable energies in buildings; HVAC; heat transfer; phase change materials
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Interests: green building design; building ventilation; building acoustics; creative design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapidly growing energy demand has received increasing concern regarding the exhaustion of fossil fuels, environmental impacts, and (non-)technical barriers of alternative energies. Population and economic growth, and the increasing demand for quality in the built environment imply that an upward trend in energy demand will continue in the future. The building sector accounts for 20%–50% of the national energy consumption. For this reason, energy efficiency in buildings becomes a significant objective for energy policy and practices at all levels.
Green building (also known as sustainable building, bioclimatic building, etc.) brings together an interdisciplinary combination of practices and techniques to reduce the impact of buildings on the environment and human health by considering the greenery of the site, soil water content, building energy conservation, recycling of buildings’ rainwater and daily wastewater, sustainable building structure, green materials, etc. Energy efficient building is one of the green building issues, and is closely related to other dimensions. The Editors anticipate that this theme-oriented Issue could provide a collaborative learning base for all stakeholders and cover a wide spectrum of topics in “Energy Efficient Buildings and Green Buildings”.
Prof. Dr. Chi-Ming Lai
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sung-Chin Chung
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building energy demands and consumption
- building energy conservation
- application of renewable energies in buildings
- energy-efficient buildings
- green building design
- bioclimatic building
- sustainable design
- smart living space
- typology of green building
- persuasion and co-creation of green building living
- life cycle assessment
- adaptive opportunity
- carbon tracking in buildings
- indoor environment
- sustainability in building construction
- new materials in building and their impact on energy demands
- new materials in building and their impact on the ecological environment
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