Architectural Intelligence - Call for Papers: Whole Life Cycle Building Decarbonization
Special Issue: Whole Life Cycle Building Decarbonization (this opens in a new tab)
General Information:
Building decarbonization is vital to reducing greenhouse gases and vulnerability to the effects of climate change. It has been recognized as a priority by policymakers, researchers, and practitioners. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers published a technical guideline to provide a technical basis for stakeholders interested in developing and implementing Building Performance Standards to promote building decarbonization.
Carbon emission occurs during the whole building life cycle. It was found that around 42% of the carbon emissions from buildings are embodied carbon from the production and transportation of construction materials (e.g., steel and concrete), and 54% are the carbon emissions from operational stage activities. In addition, as one of the criteria, building decarbonization needs to be traded off with other conflicting design/operation objectives, such as indoor thermal comfort and cost-effectiveness. Therefore, it is necessary to bring together different disciplinary perspectives and methods to inform integrated solutions to realize building decarbonization in real practice.
To this end, this specific issue aims to publish the most recent advances in building decarbonization research and applications. It is concerned with the methodology developments, especially when advanced digital technologies are involved, for reducing both embodied carbon emissions and operational carbon emissions in the built environment. Preference is given to quantitative assessments of the challenges and benefits of adopting building decarbonization measures under different regions, policies, and/or carbon emission trading schemes. At last, it aims to provide opportunities to demonstrate the real-world evidence of realizing building decarbonization via case studies.
The main topics of the special issue include but are not limited to:
- Life cycle assessment of building carbon emission
- Intelligent robot construction for reducing building embodied carbon emission
- Emerging technologies for reducing building operational carbon emission
- Techno-economic analysis for low-carbon building design, construction, and operation
Submission Instructions
The journal’s submission platform Editorial Manager® is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Submission guidelines (https://www.springer.com/journal/44223/submission-guidelines) to prepare your manuscript.
When submitting a manuscript online, under the Additional Information tab, "Are you submitting this manuscript to a Thematic Series?" Answer "Yes" and select the Thematic Series " Whole life cycle building decarbonization ". Authors should indicate in the Cover Letter that whether their manuscript fit the special issue topics.
All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. We sincerely invite you to submit your original work to this special issue and are looking forward to sharing your outstanding research outcomes with the peers around the world.
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission Open Date: May 01,2023
Manuscript Submission Deadline: December 31, 2023
Guest editors:
Dr. Sen Huang
Senior R&D Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.
Email: huangs@ornl.gov
Dr. Srinivas Katipamula
Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.
Email: Srinivas.Katipamula@pnnl.gov