Energy and Buildings

📢This study empirically evaluates a moss-based green roof on an occupied school, demonstrating significant indoor and surface cooling without shading, supporting lightweight, scalable retrofits for urban heat mitigation. 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @ElsevierConnect

📢Call for Papers: VSI: ENB_Extreme Climate Designs This issue explores climate-adaptive paradigms for building safety and energy resilience. We seek interdisciplinary studies bridging "Mechanism–Methodology–Application" with verified engineering demonstrations. @ElsevierConnect

📢This review proposes a structured framework for physiological-based personal comfort models, covering sensing systems, data preprocessing, and model establishment, and reveals key gaps hindering accuracy and deployment. 🔗…ncedirect-com.accproxy.lib.szu.edu.cn/science/articl… @ElsevierConnect

📣 Call for Paper: Next Generation Energy Performance Certificate for Buildings ⏰ Submission Deadline: 30-Sept-2026 Read more details:…ncedirect-com.accproxy.lib.szu.edu.cn/special-issue/… Join us to shape future of building performance with Next Generation Energy Performance Certificates! #callforpapers

📣 Call for Paper: VSI Ecological Building Materials and Technologies ⏰ Submission Deadline: 31-Aug-2026 Read more details: …ncedirect-com.accproxy.lib.szu.edu.cn/special-issue/… Join us to advance sustainable, energy-efficient, and climate-resilient building technologies! #callforpapers

This study uses Automated Machine Learning and the NSGA-III algorithm to optimize building energy renovation, achieving up to 33% energy savings and 40% better thermal comfort, offering a fast, data-driven path to sustainable retrofits. 🔗…ncedirect-com.accproxy.lib.szu.edu.cn/science/articl… @ElsevierConnect

📣 Call for paper: VSI Progress in Smart Technologies for Built Environment ⏰ Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2026 Read more details: …ncedirect-com.accproxy.lib.szu.edu.cn/special-issue/… Join us to accelerate the smart transformation of the built environment! #callforpapers

📣 Call for paper: VSI From Structure to Power: Advances in Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting in Buildings ⏰ Submission Deadline: 31-Dec-2025 Read more details: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… Join us in advancing the future of sustainable infrastructure ! #callforpapers

📣 Call for paper: VSI Bridging the Passive Energy Gap: Rethinking Passive Strategies for Climate, Electrification, and Urban Resilience ⏰ Submission Deadline: 15-Dec-2025 🔗 Read more details: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… #callforpapers

📢Call for paper: Nature Based Solutions: Materials, Buildings and Cities for Counteracting Climate Change 📆 Submission Deadline: 30-Sep-2025 🔗 Find more details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… Let’s build greener cities and a climate-resilient future—together. #callforpapers

💡Call for paper: From Structure to Power: Advances in Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting in Buildings 📆 Submission Deadline: 31-Dec-2025 🔗 Find more details here:sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… Join us in advancing smart, self-powered, and sustainable infrastructure! #callforpapers

🚀This study quantifies energy-efficient strategies in traditional Zhuangke dwellings using field surveys and simulations, improving thermal performance and reducing heating demand in Qinghai’s cold climate. 📷doi.org/10.1016/j.enbu… @ElsevierConnect

🚀This study quantifies energy-efficient strategies in traditional Zhuangke dwellings using field surveys and simulations, improving thermal performance and reducing heating demand in Qinghai’s cold climate. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.enbu… @ElsevierConnect

📢This study uses XGBoost and SHAP to predict BEPR in 3,594 Istanbul buildings, showing wall/window insulation affects low-efficiency buildings, while roof insulation and age matter more in high-efficiency ones. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.enbu… @ElsevierConnect

🎉Congratulations! Energy and Buildings has achieved a 2024 Impact Factor of 7.1, along with JCR Q1 in Construction & Building Technology and Civil Engineering! #CiteScore2024 We mark this milestone thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editors for making this possible!😃

📢This study improves building energy simulation accuracy by including key parameters like convective coefficients and absorptivities in calibration. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.enbu… @Elsevier_Eng

New in FDD research: Hybrid-CGAN leverages simulation+ GANs to synthesize high-fidelity fault data— addressing real-world fault data scarcity. 📉 50% better FID vs. other GANs (0% real faults) 📈 RF accuracy: 0.82 → 0.94 with synthetic data sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @Elsevier_Eng

This study proposes a novel building sampling method integrating Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and rough set (RS) theory, employing a dual-layered clustering and factor-reduction approach to optimize energy consumption analysis. doi.org/10.1016/j.enbu… @Elsevier_Eng

New approach for building retrofit modeling! By tweaking grey-box RC model parameters with theoretical factors, we efficiently simulate renovation impacts. This approach enables fast, reliable urban-scale simulations for energy and climate. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @Elsevier_Eng

This study investigates outdoor thermal perception among older adults using UTCI. The findings reveal key factors influencing thermal comfort, providing evidence to guide the development of strategies for improving outdoor environments. doi.org/10.1016/j.enbu… @Elsevier_Eng