Ventilative Cooling and Energy Saving in Low Energy and Resilient 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: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 293
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy systems; renewable sources; IEQ; building physics; applied thermal engineering; energy saving
Interests: indoor comfort; mechanical and natural ventilation; ventilative cooling; building physics; passive energy technologies; low-energy buildings
Interests: thermal comfort; IAQ; natural ventilation; ventilative cooling; bioclimatic architecture; CFD; low-energy buildings; building energy simulation; building energy-saving; energy-efficient building design; indoor environmental quality; passive cooling; building energy retrofit
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is currently a well-known fact that the built environment is responsible for 20–40% of global energy consumption, with heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems accounting for nearly half of this amount.
The demand cooling energy is rapidly growing across the globe. Higher requirements for indoor thermal comfort levels, especially in developing countries, and rising global and local temperatures caused by climate change will cause a dramatic increase in the future.
Ventilation, especially in the post-COVID-19 era, plays a key role in providing adequate thermal comfort, heatwave resilience, and good indoor air quality (IAQ), although air-tight sealing is becoming an increasingly widespread and energy-efficient practice.
Thus, ventilative cooling techniques, alone or optimized by building and automation control system (BACS), have been embraced as efficient strategies to reduce cooling energy consumption while improving thermal comfort, indoor air quality and building resiliency.
The Special Issue on ventilative cooling and energy saving in low energy and resilient buildings will provide an overview of existing knowledge of passive or active ventilative cooling strategies and the control, management and optimization of mixed-mode ventilation systems in low-energy buildings.
Original research, theoretical and experimental research, case studies, and comprehensive review papers will be considered for publication. Relevant topics to this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following subjects:
- Indoor thermal comfort and IAQ within hybrid ventilation systems assessment;
- Passive or active ventilative cooling techniques;
- Innovative ventilative cooling technologies and devices;
- BACS optimization for ventilation system;
- Cooling energy saving in buildings;
- Natural ventilation optimization in buildings;
- Cooling energy demand under future weather climatic conditions;
- Occupant-centered ventilation to improve indoor microclimates;
- CFD application in a built environment;
- Bioclimatic strategies for energy saving.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Ruggiero
Prof. Dr. Per Heiselberg
Dr. Roberto Stasi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- hybrid ventilation
- thermal comfort
- passive ventilative cooling
- BACS
- building physics
- indoor air quality
