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 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.

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Editors-in-Chief
Jianlei Niu
Jianlei Niu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Email Jianlei Niu
Mattheos Santamouris
Mattheos Santamouris
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athina, Greece Email Mattheos Santamouris
Editors
Hashem Akbari
Hashem Akbari
Concordia University Department of Building Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Email Hashem Akbari
Manuela Almeida
Manuela Almeida
University of Minho Department of Civil Engineering, Guimaraes, Portugal Email Manuela Almeida
Christopher Chao
Christopher Chao
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Email Christopher Chao
Richard de Dear
Richard de Dear
The University of Sydney School of Architecture Design and Planning Email Richard de Dear
Karim Ghazi Wakili
Institute for Applied Building Physics, Winterthur, Switzerland Email Karim Ghazi Wakili
Tianzhen Hong
Tianzhen Hong
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States Email Tianzhen Hong
Panagiota Karava
Panagiota Karava
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States Email Panagiota Karava
Dionysia (Denia) Kolokotsa
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece Email Dionysia (Denia) Kolokotsa
Tilmann Kuhn
Tilmann Kuhn
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany Email Tilmann Kuhn
Roberto Lamberts
Roberto Lamberts
Federal University of Santa Catarina Department of Civil Engineering, Santa Catarina, Brazil Email Roberto Lamberts
Z. John Zhai
Z. John Zhai
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States Email Z. John Zhai
Li-Zhi Zhang
Li-Zhi Zhang
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Email Li-Zhi Zhang
Yinping Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Email Yinping Zhang
Former Editors
F.S. Higgs
Brosis Innovations Inc, Carmel Valley, California, United States
A. Meier
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
Fabrizio Ascione
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Godfried Augenbroe
Godfried Augenbroe
Georgia Tech Partnership, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
William Bahnfleth
William Bahnfleth
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Constantinos A. Balaras
Constantinos A. Balaras
National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece
Umberto Berardi
Ryerson University Department of Architectural Science, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stefan Bouzarovski
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
Luisa F. Cabeza
University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Wongee Chun
Wongee Chun
Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea, Republic of
Francesco Fiorito
Francesco Fiorito
Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy
Christian Ghiaus
Christian Ghiaus
National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
Rajat Gupta
Rajat Gupta
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Jan Hensen
Jan Hensen
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Arif Hepbasli
Arif Hepbasli
Yasar University, İzmir, Turkey
Taehoon Hong
Yonsei University Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Christian Inard
University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
Ollie Jay
Ollie Jay
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
Azra Korjenic
TU Wien University, Austria
Jarek Kurnitski
Jarek Kurnitski
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Chengwang Lei
Chengwang Lei
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ronnen Levinson
Ronnen Levinson
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
Yuguo Li
Yuguo Li
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Zhengrong Li
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Noam Lior
Noam Lior
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Kevin Lomas
Kevin Lomas
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Sylvie Lorente
Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States
Ardeshir Mahdavi
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
John Mardaljevic
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, İzmir, Turkey
Riccardo Paolini
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Agis Papadopoulos
Agis Papadopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Anna Laura Pisello
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, Singapore
Valentina Serra
Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy
Carey Simonson
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Veronica Soebarto
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, Singapore
Aris Tsangrassoulis
University of Thessaly Department of Architecture, Volos, Greece
Athanasios Tzempelikos
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Andreas Wagner
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, Karlsruhe, Germany
LiangZhu Wang
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Xudong Yang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Hiroshi Yoshino
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Chang-Ying 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
University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom
Honorary Editor
B. Todorovic
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia