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 once results are fully validated using appropriate experimental data, and so are the articles reporting application of numerical or theoretical methods for the analysis of new technology and materials and innovative designs.
Topics covered include:
- Energy demands and consumption in existing and future buildings - prediction and validation
- Indoor environment quality, including health and thermal comfort vis-à-vis energy
- Natural, mechanical and mixed 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 intelligent buildings
- 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 and modeling predictive control
- 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
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, 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.
Editorial board
Editors-in-Chief
- Jianlei Niu PhD, RPE, FASHRAE, FCIBSE, FHKIE, FIBPSA, FISIAQ
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China - Mattheos Santamouris
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Editors
- Hashem Akbari
Concordia University Department of Building Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Manuela Almeida
University of Minho Department of Civil Engineering, Guimaraes, Portugal - Christopher Chao
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China - Richard de Dear
The University of Sydney School of Architecture Design and Planning - Karim Ghazi Wakili
Institute for Applied Building Physics, Winterthur, Switzerland - Tianzhen Hong
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States - Panagiota Karava
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States - Dionysia (Denia) Kolokotsa
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece - Tilmann Kuhn
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany - Roberto Lamberts
Federal University of Santa Catarina Department of Civil Engineering, Santa Catarina, Brazil - Anna Mavrogianni
University College London, London, United Kingdom - Z. John Zhai
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States - Li-Zhi Zhang
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China - Yinping Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Former Editors
- F.S. Higgs
Brosis Innovations Inc, Carmel Valley, California, United States - A. Meier
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States - S. Selkowitz
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
Editorial Board
- Francis Allard
University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France - Fabrizio Ascione PhD
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy - Godfried Augenbroe
Georgia Tech Partnership, Atlanta, Georgia, United States - William Bahnfleth
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States - Constantinos A. Balaras
National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece - Umberto Berardi PhD
Ryerson University Department of Architectural Science, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Philomena Bluyssen MBA
Technological University of Delft Faculty of Architecture, Delft, Netherlands - Stefan Bouzarovski
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom - Harry Boyer
University of La Réunion Faculty of Human Sciences and Environment, Le Tampon, France - Luisa F. Cabeza
University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain - Zhenqian Chen
Southeast University School of Energy and Environment, Nanjing, China - Wongee Chun PhD
Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea, Republic of - Qihong Deng PhD
Central South University School of Energy Science and Engineering, Changsha, China - Francesco Fiorito
Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy - Christian Ghiaus
National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France - Rajat Gupta
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom - Jan Hensen
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands - Arif Hepbasli
Yasar University, ?zmir, Turkey - Taehoon Hong PhD
Yonsei University Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of - Christian Inard
University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France - Ollie Jay PhD
The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, New South Wales, Australia - Yi Jiang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Karel Kabele
Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic - Azra Korjenic
TU Wien University, Austria - Jarek Kurnitski
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia - Chengwang Lei BE, MSc, PhD
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Ronnen Levinson
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States - Xiantang Li PhD
Tsinghua University Department of Building Science and Technology, Beijing, China - Yuguo Li
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China - Zhengrong Li
Tongji University, Shanghai, China - Noam Lior
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Jiaping Liu PhD
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology Architecture College, Xian, China - Kevin Lomas
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom - Sylvie Lorente PhD
Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States - Ardeshir Mahdavi
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria - John Mardaljevic
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom - Alberto Muscio
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy - Fergus Nicol
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom - Baris Özerdem
Izmir University of Economics, ?zmir, Turkey - Riccardo Paolini PhD
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Agis Papadopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece - Anna Laura Pisello
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy - Priyadarsini Rajagopalan
RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - David J. Sailor
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States - Stefano Schiavon
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States - Chandra Sekhar
National University of Singapore, Singapore - Valentina Serra
Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy - Carey Simonson
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - Veronica Soebarto PhD (+ M.Arch. and B.Arch.Eng)
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, South Australia, Australia - Hideki Takebayashi
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan - Shin-ichi Tanabe
Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineeri, Tokyo, Japan - Kwok Wai Tham
National University of Singapore, Singapore - Aris Tsangrassoulis
University of Thessaly Department of Architecture, Volos, Greece - Athanasios Tzempelikos
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States - Henk Visscher PhD
TU Delft department of Management in the Built Environment, Delft, Netherlands - Andreas Wagner
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, Karlsruhe, Germany - LiangZhu Wang
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Pawel Wargocki PhD
Technical University of Denmark International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark - Daniel Wei PhD
The Boeing Company, Boeing Research & Technology - China, Beijing, China - Xudong Yang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Hiroshi Yoshino
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan - Philip F. Yuan PhD
Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai, China - Changying Zhao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China - Michele Zinzi
ENEA National Agency for New Technologies Energy and Economic Sustainable Development, Roma, Italy - Stamatis Zoras PhD
University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom
Honorary Editor
- B. Todorovic
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia