Advancing Bottom-Up Energy Approaches for Carbon-Neutral Building Stock
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 2 July 2025 | Viewed by 1809
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy systems; renewable energy; applied optimization; building simulation
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; computational mechanics; modeling and simulation; offshore wind turbines
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy efficiency is becoming a critical focus in the building sector, particularly during the operational phases, as part of global efforts toward carbon neutrality. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), buildings hold a significant yet underutilized potential for energy efficiency. To quantify this potential, there is a need to develop new approaches related to building performance simulation to improve accuracy and reduce computational time at scale.
This Special Issue intends to cover (but are not limited to) research topics on benchmarking energy efficiency at the national, city, community and multi-scale levels; advancements in enabling these technologies and their use to support the energy efficiency, data-driven transition, or renovation of residential and commercial building stock; and their technical and socio-economic feasibility.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Energy-efficient building design (new optimization techniques);
- Resilient buildings for climate change (climate neutral cities and districts);
- Building energy performance simulation and analysis tools (white- and black-box techniques using GIS, synthetic, hybrid and machine learning approaches);
- Building-, community-, regional-, national-, and multi-scale-level modeling of energy efficiency methods;
- Digital twin-enabled building operations.
Dr. Usama Bin Perwez
Dr. Muhammad Salman Siddiqui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy efficiency
- building performance simulation
- urban building energy modelling (UBEM)
- climate change
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