Low Energy Architecture and Design for Thermal Comfort
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 4227
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermal energy storage; human thermal comfort; building thermal environment; personal thermal management; renewable energy use in buildings; building energy conservation; advanced materials for thermal storage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The majority of people’s life and activities take place inside buildings, which means indoor thermal comfort is an important issue related to human health and welfare. With the development of technology and the progress of society, people’s demands on thermal environment are growing, which leads to unavoidable increases in energy consumption. How to balance the relationship between indoor thermal environment improvement and low-energy architecture design is a crucial issue. It is important to study scientifical theory, methods, and practice on thermal comfort in energy-efficient buildings.
The scope of this Special Issue stems from the increasing requirements of both high-quality indoor thermal environments and building energy conservation and emission reduction. New technologies and materials support the improvement of healthy, comfortable, and sustainable building environments, although unprecedented problems and challenges continue to present themselves in this era of rapid development.
The field of thermal comfort and building engineering is expecting further consideration of how sustainable development can be achieved under global energy sources and environmental problems.
The Special Issue will address theoretical and practical issues associated with thermal comfort in energy-efficient buildings and sustainable human living environments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Sustainability and new technology;
- Innovation in thermal environment construction;
- Thermal comfort and adaptative thermal comfort;
- Thermal comfort standards;
- Individual thermal comfort;
- Local thermal comfort;
- Dynamic thermal comfort;
- Human thermal regulation model;
- Building energy use for thermal comfort;
- Building on-site survey on thermal comfort;
- Advanced and new materials for personal thermal management;
- Building envelope and insulation;
- Design of architecture for free cooling;
- Emerging issues in thermal comfort and energy-efficient building
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Wenjie Ji
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermal comfort
- adaptative thermal comfort
- thermal sensation prediction
- indoor thermal environment
- personal thermal management
- building energy conservation
