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There is an increasing number of buildings that require informed decisions to be made about their continued safety and serviceability. Although social and economic issues are often all-important influences, the technical issues nevertheless need to be addressed objectively, efficiently and reliably. The aim of this book is to bring together those techniques which can be used effectively to monitor building structures.

Buildings --- Structural engineering --- Constructions --- Technique de la construction --- Performance --- Comportement --- -Structural engineering --- Engineering, Structural --- Structures, Engineering of --- Architecture --- Engineering --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Structural engineering. --- Performance. --- Building performance --- Performance, Building --- Performance of buildings

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The main aim of this book is to present an intriguing retrospective of Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) as it evolved from Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) over the past 25 years. On one hand, this is done by updating original authors' chapter content of Building Evaluation, the first edition published in 1989. That, in turn, is augmented by an orientation toward current and future practice on the other, including new authors who are engaged in ongoing, cutting edge projects. Therefore, individual, methodology oriented chapters covering the fundamental principles of POE and BPE go along with major thematic chapters, topics of which like sustainability or integration of new technologies are addressed in a diversity of case studies from around the globe. Research, methodologies, and framework of POEs continue to evolve. POEs are one step, on the larger scale of BPE, in understanding how buildings function after they are occupied. This resource helps archi tects, building owners, and facility managers understand the implications and reactions to the facilities that they designed, built and/or commissioned. By considering the whole process from conception to future uses of the building, there can be a more holistic approach to the planning, programming, design, construction, occupancy, and future adaptability of the structure. This book is dedicated to first editor Wolfgang F. E. Preiser who passed away during the process of editing and reviewing chapters of this volume.

Engineering. --- Real estate management. --- Civil engineering. --- Structural materials. --- Civil Engineering. --- Structural Materials. --- Real Estate Management. --- Buildings --- Performance. --- Performance --- Evaluation. --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Building performance --- Performance, Building --- Performance of buildings --- Materials. --- Property management --- Apartment houses --- Housing --- Office buildings --- Real estate business --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Public works --- Materials --- Architectural materials --- Building --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials

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"High-performance buildings are key to achieving the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Most of today's buildings will still be in use in 2050, and their energy performance must be managed. As shown in this timely book, the capability to meet the challenge exists today. Scott Foster, Director, Sustainable Energy, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe "Practice meets theory. The Power of Existing Buildings describes practical, tested ways for building owners to improve the energy performance of existing buildings profitably. Illustrated with compelling, real-world examples, this book shows the opportunity inherent in existing buildings, and how we can build a better environment through thoughtful renovation. Victor Olgyay, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute "Our future depends on low-energy buildings with great indoor air quality. The Power of Existing Buildings is the evidence-based resource showing exactly how to do it. Anjanette Green, Director, Standards Development, RESET "As an owner of older, public buildings, we look for cost-effective ways to extend and improve the performance of our existing structures. The Power of Existing Buildings provides a data-driven approach for building owners planning to renovate old buildings into sustainable structures with lower energy consumption and improved indoor air quality. Greg Stewart, Administrator, Ohio County Commission, West Virginia "Today, most of our old building stock requires updating to reflect the current needs and demands of today's clients, as well as our new climate reality. This book offers a sound approach to tackling this task, based on the building science practices endorsed by the North American Passive House Network (NAPHN). It includes a viable financial pathway to support what must be seen as an evolution; the updating of old systems to allow the charm and character inherent in old buildings to remain viable for future generations. Bronwyn Barry, RA, CPHD, NAPHN Board President "Buildings make up 80 percent of the City of Pittsburgh's carbon footprint. If we are going to make meaningful progress in reducing carbon emissions, we need to address the backlog of opportunity within our existing building stock. The Power of Existing Buildings provides a roadmap for building operators, policymakers, real estate developers, and anyone who is looking to create higher performing buildings. These techniques and strategies are key components of our game plan to push buildings to net zero.Grant Ervin, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Pittsburgh "Owners lack confidence that their investments in existing buildings will lead to improved performance in operations, so quite often they do nothing. The Power of Existing Buildings lays out the building science and technology-based tools available today that are essential to fully integrating design, construction, and operations, ultimately increasing an owner's return on investment. The more integration on a project, the higher the return. Bob Berkebile, Principal Emeritus, bnim "Internationally, industry leaders are successfully and affordably delivering deep energy retrofits of existing buildings. Many countries either have, or soon will have, building codes requiring such retrofits; yet how they are achieved remains unknown to many. The Power of Existing Buildings is a compelling synthesis of the fundamental principles enabling the successful delivery of such projects, and is essential reading for owners, project teams, and policy makers. Rob Bernhardt, Chief Executive Officer, PassiveHouse Canada "A brilliant intersection of design, technology, building science, and operations, this definitive work is the roadmap to zero in existing buildings. This is a must read. Laura Nettleton, Founder and Architectural Coordinator, Thoughtful Balance.

Buildings --- Sustainable buildings. --- Repair and reconstruction. --- Performance. --- Building performance --- Performance, Building --- Performance of buildings --- Ecologically sustainable buildings --- Environmentally sustainable buildings --- Green buildings (Green technology) --- Sustainable development --- Building reconstruction --- Building renovation --- Building repair --- Reconstruction of buildings --- Remodeling of buildings --- Renovation of buildings --- Maintenance --- Repairing --- Architecture --- Reconstruction --- Remodeling --- Renovation --- Protection --- Conservation and restoration --- Urban geography. --- Landscape architecture. --- Architecture. --- Energy. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Landscape Architecture. --- Architectural History and Theory. --- Popular Science in Energy. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- Geography --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive

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A Smart City is the perfect environment to study and exploit the interactions between actors because its architecture already integrates vaious elements to collect data and connect to its citizens. Furthermore, the proliferation of web platforms (e.g., social media and web fora) and the increased affordability of sensors and IoT devices (e.g., smart meters) make data related to a large and diverse set of users accessible, as their activities in the digital world reflect their real-life actions. These new technologies can be of great use for the stakeholders as, on the one hand, they provide them with semantically rich inputs and frequent updates at a relatively cheap cost and, on the other, form a direct channel of communication with the citizens. To fully exploit these new data sources, we need both novel computational methods (e.g., AI, data mining algorithms, knowledge representation) that are suitable for analyzing and understanding the dynamics behind energy consumption and also a deeper understanding of how these methods can be integrated into the existing design and decision processes (e.g., human-in-the-loop processes).Therefore, this Special Issue welcomed original multidisciplinary research works about AI, data science methods, and their integration in existing design/decision-making processes in the domain of energy consumption in Smart Cities.

Research & information: general --- Physics --- building energy flexibility --- HOMER software --- peak clipping --- load shifting --- energy saving --- building performance assessment --- indoor environment quality --- occupants’ satisfaction --- post-occupancy evaluation --- Green Building Index --- tropical climate --- building performance simulation --- CO2 emission --- occupant’s comfort --- window allocation --- climate change --- energy consumption --- building energy load --- thermal load --- future weather --- operative temperature --- cooling load --- daily energy need --- solar gains --- nZEB --- historical buildings --- TRNSYS --- buildings retrofitting --- buildings office --- economic feasibility --- Renewable Energy Systems (RESs) --- Zero Energy District (ZED) --- Digital Twin (DT) --- Building Information Modelling (BIM) --- Geographic Information System (GIS) --- Revit software’s --- asymmetric duty cycle control --- bifilar coil --- pulse duty cycle control --- induction heating --- metal melting --- phase shift control --- pulse density modulation --- series resonant inverter --- variable frequency control --- building operation and maintenance --- extended reality --- virtual reality --- augmented reality --- mixed reality --- immersive technologies --- digital twins --- metaverse --- positive energy district --- district energy infrastructure --- decarbonisation of neighbourhoods --- GIS --- energy transition --- smart city policy --- carbon emission intensity --- digital transformation --- green innovation --- difference-in-differences --- n/a --- occupants' satisfaction --- occupant's comfort --- Revit software's

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Open data and policy implications coming from data-aware planning entail collection and pre- and postprocessing as operations of primary interest. Before these steps, making data available to people and their decision-makers is a crucial point. Referring to the relationship between data and energy, public administrations, governments, and research bodies are promoting the construction of reliable and robust datasets to pursue policies coherent with the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as to allow citizens to make informed choices. Energy engineers and planners must provide the simplest and most robust tools to collect, process, and analyze data in order to offer solid data-based evidence for future projections in building, district, and regional systems planning. This Special Issue aims at providing the state-of-the-art on open-energy data analytics; its availability in the different contexts, i.e., country peculiarities; and its availability at different scales, i.e., building, district, and regional for data-aware planning and policy-making. For all the aforementioned reasons, we encourage researchers to share their original works on the field of open data and energy analytics. Topics of primary interest include but are not limited to the following: 1. Open data and energy sustainability; 2. Open data science and energy planning; 3. Open science and open governance for sustainable development goals; 4. Key performance indicators of data-aware energy modelling, planning, and policy; 5. Energy, water, and sustainability database for building, district, and regional systems; 6. Best practices and case studies.

data envelopment analysis --- Kohonen self-organizing maps --- factor analysis --- multiple regression --- energy efficiency --- social media --- energy-consuming activities --- energy consumption --- machine learning --- ontology --- energy performance certificate --- heating energy demand --- buildings --- data mining --- classification --- regression --- decision tree --- support vector machine --- random forest --- artificial neural network --- open data --- electrification modelling --- Malawi --- OnSSET --- MESSAGEix --- reproducibility --- collaborative work --- open modelling and data --- data-handling --- integrated assessment modelling --- data pre- and post-processing --- space heating --- domestic hot water --- market assessment --- EU28 --- district heating --- data analytics --- big data --- forecasting --- energy --- polygeneration --- clustering --- kNN --- pattern recognition --- heating --- building stock --- heat map --- spatial analysis --- heat density map --- building performance simulation --- parametric modelling --- energy management --- model calibration --- Passive House --- energy planning --- energy potential mapping --- urban energy atlas --- urban energy transition --- energy data --- data-aware planning --- spatial planning --- open data analytics --- smart cities --- open energy governance --- urban database --- energy mapping --- building dataset --- energy modelling