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Smart Buildings for Smart Cities

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 2020) | Viewed by 8385

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Miimu Airaksinen

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Guest Editor
RIL Finnish Association of Civil Engineers, Helsinki, Finland
Interests: smart cities; smart buildings; sustainability; resiliency; city planning; smart services; climate neutrality; zero energy buildings and districts
Dr. Isabel Pinto Seppä

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
Interests: R&D management; smart cities and ICT for the built environment; energy-efficient buildings; proposal and project portfolio management; ICT for the wood industry; clean tech; eco-efficient solutions for the building construction sector; connection between wood product properties and forest production

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is a global challenge to reduce environmental impact and the carbon footprint. At the same time, societal development needs to be addressed and the focus put on people’s well-being and societal resilience. Pressure is growing to reduce our environmental impact, and there is a parallel compelling need for business to remain globally competitive. The need for investment and expenditure to improve energy efficiency, modernize infrastructure, and create high-quality living environments is enormous. At the same time, cities have limited access to financial resources. The sustainable transformation of cities is only possible when it is done in a smart way.

Dr. Miimu Airaksinen
Dr. Isabel Pinto Seppä
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Smart cities
  • Smart buildings
  • Resiliency
  • Sustainability
  • Future-proof
  • Climate neutrality
  • Energy-positive buildings and districts

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An Interoperable BIM-Based Toolkit for Efficient Renovation in Buildings
by Bruno Daniotti, Cecilia Maria Bolognesi, Sonia Lupica Spagnolo, Alberto Pavan, Martina Signorini, Simone Ciuffreda, Claudio Mirarchi, Meherun Nesa Lucky, Birgitta Andersson, Per Andersson, Alessandro Valra, Davide Madeddu, Jacopo Chiappetti, Diego Farina, Brian O’Regan, Eoin O’Leidhin, Farah Tahir, Karen Mould, Stephen O’Donovan, Sinead O’Sullivan, Andriy Hryshchenko and Dominic O’Sullivanadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Buildings 2021, 11(7), 271; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11070271 - 25 Jun 2021
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Since the buildings and construction sector is one of the main areas responsible for energy consumption and emissions, focusing on their refurbishment and promoting actions in this direction will be helpful to achieve an EU Agenda objective of making Europe climate-neutral by 2050. [...] Read more.
Since the buildings and construction sector is one of the main areas responsible for energy consumption and emissions, focusing on their refurbishment and promoting actions in this direction will be helpful to achieve an EU Agenda objective of making Europe climate-neutral by 2050. One step towards the renovation action is the exploitation of digital tools into a BIM framework. The scope of the research contained in this paper is to improve the management of information throughout the different stages of the renovation process, allowing an interoperable exchange of data among the involved stakeholders; the development of an innovative BIM-based toolkit is the answer to the research question. The research and results obtained related with the development of an interoperable BIM-based toolkit for efficient renovation in buildings in the framework of the European research project BIM4EEB. Specifically, the developed BIM management system allows the exchange of the data among the different tools, using open interoperable formats (as IFC) and linked data, in a Common Data Environment, to be used by the different stakeholders. Additionally, the developed tools allow the stakeholders to manage different stages of the renovation process, facilitating efficiencies in terms of time reduction and improving the resulting quality. The validity of each tool with respect to existing practices is demonstrated here, and the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed tools are described in the workflow detailing issues such as interoperability, collaboration, integration of different solutions, and time consuming existing survey processes. Full article
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Intelligence-Based Design Illustrated with Examples of ACROS Fukuoka, KKL Luzern and MICA Changsha Buildings—A Multicriterial Case Study
by Beata Majerska-Pałubicka and Elżbieta Latusek
Buildings 2021, 11(4), 135; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11040135 - 25 Mar 2021
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The article concerns the issue of intelligence-based design, which, during the design process undertaken by architects, signifies (according to the authors of the article) thinking about perceptual involvement in the built environment, designing together with people and for people and not forgetting about [...] Read more.
The article concerns the issue of intelligence-based design, which, during the design process undertaken by architects, signifies (according to the authors of the article) thinking about perceptual involvement in the built environment, designing together with people and for people and not forgetting about conveniences brought by technological progress. The way to smart cities, in respect of architectural solutions, leads (to a significant extent) through the smart design of multifunctional buildings based on the idea of sustainable development. The article-related research involved multiple case studies including three buildings, i.e., Asian Cross Road Over the Sea (ACROS) in Fukuoka, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL) in Luzern and Changsha Meixihu International Contemporary Art Museum (MICA) in Changsha. The above-named buildings, located in different countries, i.e., Japan, Switzerland and China, respectively, and erected within various time spans, i.e., the 1990s–2020, are characterized by primary common features—multifunctionality, large cubature and comparable program elements. The research presented in this article aimed to find and present the elements of intelligence-based design in the buildings and perform their comparative analysis taking into consideration the fact that the buildings were erected within the span of 30 years. The article presents a graphic comparative analysis of the intelligence-based design, a multicriterial case study (encompassing the concept, functional and spatial solutions and structure) of selected architectural objects. The article includes also a graphic comparative analysis of the very objects and concert halls: Fukuoka Symphony Hall (ACROS), Salle Blanche (KKL) and Hunan Grand Theatre (MICA). Full article
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