Urban areas are critical in accomplishing the clean energy transition and meeting the
climate goals in the Paris Agreement. The first part of this paper presents a systematic …

While the effects of climate change are already being felt in many parts of the world,
societies are compelled to drastically rethink the way they produce and manage energy, to …

During the last decade, increasing attention has been paid to the emerging concept of
Positive Energy Districts (PED) with the aim of pushing the transition to clean energy, but …

With the increasing stock of ageing infrastructure and resource constraints in Singapore,
related risks and carbon emissions can be mitigated through long-term resilience planning …

The need to accelerate energy retrofitting and integrate renewable energies in the built
environment sector has been recognized by the European Union and its member states …

This work assesses the approaches currently adopted in the design of net-zero, nearly-zero,
positive energy, or carbon neutral districts and neighbourhoods. It characterizes the …

The evident need for improving the existing building stock still suffers from important
barriers, such as the fragmentation of the value chain, the lack of information regarding …

Sustainability and social energy are two concepts associated with smart cities. They aim to
combat and contain the alarming environmental and socio-economic repercussions that …

This work focuses on the determination of the design and operation parameters of a thermal
system depending on the optimization objective set. Its main objective and contribution …

Featured Application Design of energy-efficient retrofitting projects of buildings at the district
scale. Abstract Energy-efficient retrofitting of buildings has become essential to achieve the …