Advances in Building Energy Research

Modelling, Control, and Resilience for Sustainable Buildings and Communities

Buildings and communities are undergoing a significant transformation driven by grid interaction, decarbonization, and the evolution of energy systems. Addressing these challenges requires innovative solutions that integrate advanced modeling, simulation, control strategies, and experimental validation to enhance building performance while improving energy efficiency, occupant well-being, resilience, and sustainability. This Special Issue provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to present innovative methodologies, emerging technologies, and real-world applications that advance the design and operation of sustainable and resilient buildings and communities.

We invite original research articles and case studies that investigate innovative approaches to the design, operation, and management of sustainable and resilient buildings and communities. While this Special Issue is organized in conjunction with the eSim 2026 Conference and will include expanded versions of selected conference papers, the call is open to all contributions that align with the theme "Modelling, Control, and Resilience for Sustainable Buildings and Communities."

SCOPE AND THEMES

• Building Performance Modeling and Simulation: Advanced simulation methods, digital twins, uncertainty analysis, and building performance evaluation.
• Data-Driven Modeling and Artificial Intelligence: Machine learning, deep learning, large language models, reinforcement learning, and hybrid physics-informed approaches for building performance prediction, optimization, and operation.
• Advanced Building Control: Model predictive control (MPC), intelligent supervisory control, occupant-centric control, demand response, and grid-interactive efficient buildings.
• Climate Resilience and Building Adaptation: Building and community resilience to climate change, extreme weather events, heat waves, and resilient retrofit strategies.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): CFD applications for indoor and outdoor airflow, natural and mechanical ventilation, façade performance, and urban environmental analysis.
• Building Decarbonization and Energy Systems: Renewable energy integration, photovoltaic and photovoltaic-thermal systems (PV/T and BIPV/T), heat pumps, thermal energy storage, electrification, and low-carbon building technologies.
• Experimental Validation and Field Demonstrations: Living laboratories, pilot projects, operational performance assessment, and case studies demonstrating innovative technologies and control strategies in real buildings and communities.
• Sustainable Building Design and Retrofit: Building envelope innovations, retrofit methodologies, passive design strategies, and integrated approaches for improving building sustainability and resilience.