Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction
This Reprint, Buildings’ Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction, addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time: reducing the energy consumption and carbon emissions of the building sector while ensuring human comfort and resilience. Buildings account for...
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| description | This Reprint, Buildings’ Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction, addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time: reducing the energy consumption and carbon emissions of the building sector while ensuring human comfort and resilience. Buildings account for a large share of global energy use, and their thermal performance plays a central role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This Reprint brings together original research and reviews that explore the interplay between microclimatic conditions, building design, and energy-saving technologies. These contributions span a wide spectrum, including microclimatic evaluations of elevated open spaces, optimization of settlement layouts in cold climates, innovative façade strategies for outdoor comfort, and quantitative assessments of low-carbon technologies in urban environments. Further studies analyze solar-shading indicators, architectural morphology for ventilation efficiency, and the coordination between land urbanization, energy use, and carbon emissions. Finally, a user-centered approach highlights how participatory design can enhance age-friendly and socially sustainable public spaces. Collectively, these works demonstrate the importance of integrating thermal comfort, energy efficiency, and environmental adaptation in sustainable construction, serving as a valuable reference for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking innovative strategies to foster climate-resilient and human-centered built environments. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1747692026-04-16T16:19:18Z Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction Zhao, Jingyuan Ma, Xuan Zhang, Qian Multi-story dormitory area Outdoor wind environment Morphological layout CFD simulation Optimization design Land urbanization Energy consumption carbon emissions Coupling coordination degree Spatial autocorrelation Spatiotemporal dynamic evolution Carbon emissions prediction Sustainable buildings Low-carbon technologies Carbon emission model Carbon reduction potential Insolation Shadow Ratio Thermal comfort UTCI Residential area Outdoor space Alpine resettlement communities Building layout optimization Passive energy efficiency Solar energy utilization Spatial configuration Elevated design beneath building On-site measurement Numerical simulation Outdoor comfort Building façade Materials Green façade Envelope Age-friendly design Rural public spaces User–designer cognitive synergy Aging-in-place strategies N A thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology This Reprint, Buildings’ Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction, addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time: reducing the energy consumption and carbon emissions of the building sector while ensuring human comfort and resilience. Buildings account for a large share of global energy use, and their thermal performance plays a central role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This Reprint brings together original research and reviews that explore the interplay between microclimatic conditions, building design, and energy-saving technologies. These contributions span a wide spectrum, including microclimatic evaluations of elevated open spaces, optimization of settlement layouts in cold climates, innovative façade strategies for outdoor comfort, and quantitative assessments of low-carbon technologies in urban environments. Further studies analyze solar-shading indicators, architectural morphology for ventilation efficiency, and the coordination between land urbanization, energy use, and carbon emissions. Finally, a user-centered approach highlights how participatory design can enhance age-friendly and socially sustainable public spaces. Collectively, these works demonstrate the importance of integrating thermal comfort, energy efficiency, and environmental adaptation in sustainable construction, serving as a valuable reference for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking innovative strategies to foster climate-resilient and human-centered built environments. 2026-04-16T16:19:12Z 2026-04-16T16:19:12Z 2025 book ONIX_20260416T142754_9783725854318_24 9783725854318 9783725854325 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174769 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/ https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/11647 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-5432-5 10.3390/books978-3-7258-5432-5 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725854318 9783725854325 194 CH open access |
| spellingShingle | Multi-story dormitory area Outdoor wind environment Morphological layout CFD simulation Optimization design Land urbanization Energy consumption carbon emissions Coupling coordination degree Spatial autocorrelation Spatiotemporal dynamic evolution Carbon emissions prediction Sustainable buildings Low-carbon technologies Carbon emission model Carbon reduction potential Insolation Shadow Ratio Thermal comfort UTCI Residential area Outdoor space Alpine resettlement communities Building layout optimization Passive energy efficiency Solar energy utilization Spatial configuration Elevated design beneath building On-site measurement Numerical simulation Outdoor comfort Building façade Materials Green façade Envelope Age-friendly design Rural public spaces User–designer cognitive synergy Aging-in-place strategies N A thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction |
| title | Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction |
| title_full | Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction |
| title_fullStr | Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction |
| title_short | Buildings' Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction |
| title_sort | buildings thermal performance and energy efficiency for a sustainable construction |
| topic | Multi-story dormitory area Outdoor wind environment Morphological layout CFD simulation Optimization design Land urbanization Energy consumption carbon emissions Coupling coordination degree Spatial autocorrelation Spatiotemporal dynamic evolution Carbon emissions prediction Sustainable buildings Low-carbon technologies Carbon emission model Carbon reduction potential Insolation Shadow Ratio Thermal comfort UTCI Residential area Outdoor space Alpine resettlement communities Building layout optimization Passive energy efficiency Solar energy utilization Spatial configuration Elevated design beneath building On-site measurement Numerical simulation Outdoor comfort Building façade Materials Green façade Envelope Age-friendly design Rural public spaces User–designer cognitive synergy Aging-in-place strategies N A thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology |
| topic_facet | Multi-story dormitory area Outdoor wind environment Morphological layout CFD simulation Optimization design Land urbanization Energy consumption carbon emissions Coupling coordination degree Spatial autocorrelation Spatiotemporal dynamic evolution Carbon emissions prediction Sustainable buildings Low-carbon technologies Carbon emission model Carbon reduction potential Insolation Shadow Ratio Thermal comfort UTCI Residential area Outdoor space Alpine resettlement communities Building layout optimization Passive energy efficiency Solar energy utilization Spatial configuration Elevated design beneath building On-site measurement Numerical simulation Outdoor comfort Building façade Materials Green façade Envelope Age-friendly design Rural public spaces User–designer cognitive synergy Aging-in-place strategies N A thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology |
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