Energy and Buildings

An international journal devoted to investigations of energy use and efficiency in buildings

Energy and Buildings is an international journal publishing articles with explicit links to energy use in buildings. The aim is to present new research results, and new proven practice aimed at reducing the energy needs of a building and improving indoor environment quality. Energy and Buildings considers and publishes articles considerably advancing Building Science. Preference is given to practical and experimental research articles reporting considerable innovations. Articles reporting advances in theoretical and simulation methods are welcome if results are validated, calibrated, or benchmarked using appropriate experimental or well-recognized data, and so are the articles reporting applications of numerical or theoretical methods for the analysis of new technologies, materials, and innovative designs or operations.

Topics covered include:

• Energy demands and consumption in existing, new, and future buildings – prediction, benchmarking, and validation

• Indoor environment quality, including safety, health, thermal and visual comfort vis-à-vis energy

• Natural, mechanical and hybrid ventilation

• Air distribution in buildings

• Application of solar and other renewable energy sources in buildings

• Energy balances in building complexes (residential, commercial, industrial, public and other buildings)

• Energy efficiency improvement measures of HVAC&R and other technical systems in residential, commercial, public and industrial buildings, and semi open built spaces

• Heat recovery systems in buildings

• Buildings and district heating and cooling

• Energy conservation in built environment

• Energy efficient buildings

• Building physics

• Energy sustainability, resilience and climate adaptability of buildings

• Evaluation and control of indoor thermal and lighting systems

• Building's total performance and influencing factors

• Intelligent/smart buildings and communities

• Links between architectural design, mechanical and lighting systems

• New materials in buildings and their impact on energy demands

• External and internal design conditions for energy efficient buildings

• Building envelope materials and structure energy performance

• Thermal energy storage and thermally active building systems - TABS

• Energy performance of buildings

• Advanced controls of energy systems in buildings: model predictive controls, AI-based controls

• Zero CO2 emission - zero energy and energy plus buildings and their smart grid harmonized operation

• Residential/municipal energy refurbishment and renovation

• Life cycle energy efficiency of buildings and embodied energy

• Architectural structure - construction energy efficiency

• Energy related aspects of buildings after catastrophic events

• Applications of AI related to energy use in buildings

• Technological issues in energy poverty in building sectors

• Impacts of urban microclimate and wind-structure interaction on the thermal comfort in building surroundings, building ventilation and energy use

• Global and regional climate change and its potential impact on the energy and environmental quality of the built environment

• New heat and energy mitigation and adaptation technologies for the built environment

• Successful case studies demonstrating the implementation of innovative energy and environmental technologies in the built environment

• Synergies between energy consumption and indoor environmental quality

• The impact of human behaviors on the energy consumption of buildings

• Distributed energy resources (behind-the-meter) in buildings

• Energy flexibility and demand response of buildings

• Grid-responsive buildings and integrated energy systems

• Interconnections between buildings, urban climate, transportation, and power grid

• Datasets of operational performance of buildings and energy systems

• Future and extreme weather data supporting energy and buildings research

• Energy use in data centers and industry facilities

• Advanced building performance modelling and simulation techniques

• Decarbonization (including electrification) of building energy systems

• Digital twins of buildings and energy systems

• Advanced analytics of buildings and systems performance

• Building energy policy, codes and standards

Papers with results based on simulations are welcome but those with clear links to laboratory or field measurements are preferred. These links may include calibration, benchmarking, validation, or comparisons of results.

Replication Studies: This journal encourages the submission of replication studies. When submitting your manuscript ensure the original study is clearly referenced, and provide a link to the original study. Replication studies should include [brief] introduction and discussion sections that succinctly report the goal of the original paper. The original paper should be the work of a different author or group of authors. For replication studies please also deposit your data in Mendeley data or another trusted repository and ensure your data is properly cited. Please refer to the section on Research data for further guidance on data deposition and citation.

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