Guest Editor(s)
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Special Issue Information
The built environment is undergoing a profound transformation in response to growing challenges associated with climate change, energy security, resource constraints, and decarbonization. Emerging technologies and innovative solutions, including sustainable energy technologies and systems, artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, renewable energy integration, energy storage, electrification, and demand flexibility, are creating new opportunities to improve the performance, efficiency, adaptability, sustainability, and resilience of buildings and built environments.
At the same time, increasing pressures from extreme weather events, energy market volatility, and rapid urbanisation highlight the urgent need for built environments that are not only low-carbon and sustainable, but also intelligent, flexible, robust, and resilient. Addressing these challenges requires integrated technological, operational, and policy approaches that can support more adaptive and future-ready buildings.
This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research, technological innovations, practical applications, and policy perspectives that advance the development of smart and resilient built environments through sustainable technologies. Particular emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary contributions that bridge building science, energy systems, digital technologies, and sustainability transitions.
We invite original research articles, review papers, case studies, and perspectives that contribute to advancing knowledge, practice, and implementation in this rapidly evolving field.
Keywords of the Special Issue
• Sustainable energy technologies
• Sustainable energy systems
• Digital technologies
• Renewable energy integration
• Energy advances
• Electrification
• Demand flexibility
This Special Issue, in collaboration with 2nd International Conference on Digital Intelligence for Energy Systems (ICDIES 2026), welcomes selected conference papers and high-quality external submissions.
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