Sustainability in Energy and Buildings

Utilization of Smart Meter Technology to Increase Energy Awareness for Residential Buildings in Queensland, Australia.- Solar Home System with Peak-Shaving Function and Smart Control in Hot Water Supply.- Using Evidence Accumulation-Based Clustering and Symbolic Transformation to Group Multiple Buildings Based on Electricity Usage Patterns.- Passivhaus Design for Housing Projects in Colombia.- LCA Integration in the Construction Industry: A Case Study of a Sustainable Building in Aveiro University.- Electrical Devices Identification Driven by Features and Based on Machine Learning.- Use of an Object-Oriented System for Optimizing Life Cycle Embodied Energy and Life Cycle Material Cost of Shopping Centres.- Combining Conservation and Users' Behaviors-Oriented Approaches for Sustainable Building Heritage Use: Application to a Historic Underground Built Environment.- Building Energy Simulation of Traditional Listed Dwellings in the UK: Data Sourcing for a Base-Case Model.- Towards a User-Centered and Condition-Based Approach in Building Operation and Maintenance.- Internal Insulation of Historic Buildings: A Stochastic Approach to Life-Cycle Costing within RIBuild EU Project.- Assessment of the Efficiency and Reliability of the District Heating Systems within Different Development Scenarios.- Steps Towards an Optimal Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) Value Chain in the Netherlands.- Active Buildings in Practice.- Sustainability Issues in Context of Indian Hill Towns.- A Working Methodology for Deep Energy Retrofit of Residential Multi-Property Buildings.- Holistic Dwelling Energy Assessment Protocol for Mine-water District Heat Network.