Energy and Buildings

📣 Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence for Energy, Buildings, and Extreme Environments Exploring AI, digital twins, and physics-AI methods for resilient, low-carbon buildings, data centers, and energy systems under climate and extreme-environment challenges. @ElsevierConnect

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations! Energy and Buildings has achieved a 2025 Impact Factor of 8.0, along with JCR Q1 in Construction & Building Technology! We mark this milestone thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editors for making this possible! 🥳#CiteScore2025

📢This study develops an AI hybrid framework for stratum ventilation, integrating optimized MLPNN modeling and multi-objective optimization to balance thermal comfort, energy use and airflow quality for human-centered smart HVAC design. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.20… @ElsevierConnect

📢This study develops a pediatric sleep health-driven HVAC framework, validated via multi-city US simulations, to boost hospital wildfire smoke resilience, improve IAQ and cut energy use and operating costs. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.20… @ElsevierConnect

📣 Call for Papers: VSI: ENB_AI Empowered Development This issue explores AI-powered approaches integrating BIM and IoT data to simulate the built environment and drive evidence-based decisions for sustainable urban. @ElsevierConnect

📢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/ar… @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. 🔗www-sciencedirect-com.accpro… @ElsevierConnect

📣 Call for Paper: Next Generation Energy Performance Certificate for Buildings ⏰ Submission Deadline: 30-Sept-2026 Read more details:www-sciencedirect-com.accpro… 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: www-sciencedirect-com.accpro… 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. 🔗www-sciencedirect-com.accpro… @ElsevierConnect

📣 Call for paper: VSI Progress in Smart Technologies for Built Environment ⏰ Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2026 Read more details: www-sciencedirect-com.accpro… 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-is… 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-is… #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-is… 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-is… 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.enbuild.20… @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.enbuild.20… @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.enbuild.20… @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!😃