Special Issue on District and urban-level energy efficient building communities
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2020-04-01
影响因子: 4.867
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区
• 小类 : 结构与建筑技术 - 2区
• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 3区
• 小类 : 工程:土木 - 2区
Overview
Design of energy efficient and environmentally sustainable buildings has become an urgent issue for scientists, professionals, and policy makers worldwide, given the large amount of final energy demand attributable to the built environment. Accordingly, a variety of new systems and technologies have been proposed and are currently under development for minimizing the life cycle impact of new constructions and building retrofits with diverse climatic and contextual boundary conditions to be considered. A single-building perspective falls short of exploiting optimization opportunities achievable through a larger scale analysis, simulation, and implementation. For instance, smart management techniques and microclimate mitigation solutions have been suggested to involve community-level energy and environmental benefits that cannot be realized if single constructions are considered in isolation.
Buildings' surroundings, energy grids, and the urban context in general present new potential challenges but also novel opportunities for adequate habitat design, particularly in the context of climate change and urban heat island. As such, modern green building design cannot disregard larger scales relevant to settlements and communities. In this context, new promising and inspiring scientific opportunities aimed at proposing and testing new district-level energy efficiency solutions, evaluated by means of emerging calculation, modelling, and validation techniques. Given the complex and multidisciplinary challenges posed by this perspective, this special volume of Energy and Buildings journal intends to collect high-quality critical investigations linking building physics, industrial engineering, material science, architecture technology, and civil-environmental engineering with the objective to propose and implement novel approaches toward the design and monitoring of the green livable communities and cities of the future.
As such, this special issue intends to bridge the gap between single-building investigation perspective and the larger scale (neibourhoods, districts, cities) approach via dissemination of studies that address:
Smart communities for energy efficiency management and production
Microclimate mitigation analysis in terms of potential for energy saving
Indoor-outdoor wellbeing modelling and monitoring in urban areas
Urban energy balance analysis and simulation
Life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis in energy communities
Weather analysis under a climate change context affecting energy performance of the built environment
Building energy resilience to climate change
Energy flexibility of smart grids in building communities
Theoretical analysis, innovative models, and simulation tools for performance assessment of building communities
Design, engineering process, and field applications of energy efficiency solutions beyond single-building perspective
Urban and community-level building occupancy modelling and energy consequences
Network synergy and eco-feedback effects on energy demand
Intelligent predictive control strategies in building communities and cities