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This paper discusses an example of an early childhood development facility intervention in the Khanty-Mansyisk region of the Russian Federation and its potential to produce efficiency gains in the region and the country overall. The government of the region is introducing changes to the built environment of its early childhood development centers. The proposed new design is based on the concept of the learning environment as a third teacher. The smaller footprint of the new buildings will increase the amount of active space per child, and the new design will include energy efficiency measures. The economic impact of these measures will reduce operating costs throughout the lifecycle of the building and provide strong evidence to education policy makers in the rest of the region and the country as a whole in favor of child-centered, healthy, and energy efficient early childhood development infrastructure.

Early Childhood Development --- Early Childhood Education --- Education --- Educational Institutions and Facilities --- Effective Schools and Teachers --- Energy --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Policies and Economics --- Facilities --- Preschool Education --- School Building

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Amid burgeoning international interest in the built environment of education, this SI examines the research, policy, and practice that lies behind the global trends in architecture and pedagogy. It contributes to the developing interdisciplinary understanding of the processes and products of school design at all stages, from ‘visioning’ and brief, through habitation and use, to post-occupancy evaluation. The intention is to build knowledge relating to successful design, educational affordances and outcomes, change management, and the alignment of physical resources with teaching and learning needs. The papers explore the multiprofessional landscape of educational spaces as they are planned, built, and used. Reflecting the diversity of the area, the SI features empirical work using a range of methodologies, transdisciplinary work and novel theoretical framings. It includes co-authored papers whose authorship bridges academic disciplines, research and practice, or research and policy. The over-arching aim was to capture the diversity of research related to learning environments.

informal learning space --- spatial organisation --- student experience --- student behaviour --- student preference --- spatial evaluation --- built pedagogy --- educational vision --- innovation --- interior design --- learning environment --- participatory design --- school building --- school design --- school architecture --- knowledge transfer --- education --- architecture --- innovative learning environment --- open plan school --- post-occupancy evaluation --- pedagogical walk-through --- built environment of education --- learning space --- innovative learning environments --- restorative perception --- learning style --- design framework --- design principles --- educational design research --- learning and wellbeing --- learning environments --- co-design --- university classroom --- thermal perception --- building energy efficiency --- influence factor --- adaptive behaviors --- affordances --- learning spaces --- action possibilities --- affordance ecologies --- forms of life --- school space --- students --- survey --- participative design --- inclusive research tool --- n/a

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This Special Issue aims at reporting current investigations on emerging materials and devices taking up the challenge of pursuing a significant improvement in the energy performance of buildings and indoor comfort. What is the contribution of innovative technologies in the epochal transition to low environmental impact buildings? This is the question addressed in this Special Issue, in order to offer a wide and heterogeneous amount of data to readers, along with results of high scientific impact concerning the application of innovative technologies in construction. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change following the COP 21 Conference on Climate Change, organized by United Nations, required the States to reduce carbon emissions in the building stock. In the European Union, almost 50% of final energy consumption is used for heating and cooling; out of this huge amount, 80% is used in buildings. It makes sense, then, that the Union’s goals are inherently linked to the real effort to renovate the building stock. To do this, in the EU and worldwide, the priority is to enhance energy efficiency, by deploying low-cost renewable energies and innovative technologies, especially those derived from recent achievements in the field of nanomaterials research, with special reference to building integration of novel technologies, spanning from chromogenics to semitransparent photovoltaics, super-insulating materials, and phase change materials. Articles here proposed deal with every construction or plant component of the building organism, taking advantage of novel technologies to improve their performance, from the envelope to structures, HVAC, and other technical systems, as well as indoor climate analyses in buildings and indoor environmental quality (IEQ), as well as visual comfort indoors.

Technology: general issues --- window frame --- granular aerogel --- energy saving --- IEQ --- bioaerosols --- airborne bacteria --- airborne fungi --- ozone --- portable air purifier --- ozone generation --- biomimetics --- building skin --- multifunctionality --- architectural design --- building envelope --- adaptability --- design framework --- building performance simulation --- renewable energy --- perovskite solar cells --- BIPV --- semi-transparent --- challenges --- indoor air quality (IAQ) --- CO2 production rate --- CO2 concentration --- occupancy estimation --- demand controlled ventilation (DCV) --- energy efficiency --- Cu-Zn-Al --- shape memory --- SMA --- seismic --- ausforming --- transformation temperatures --- super elasticity --- microstructure --- ventilated facade --- second-skin materials --- 3D printed materials --- additive manufacturing --- TRNSYS --- full-scale facility --- retrofit action --- deep reinforcement learning --- optimal control --- optimization --- HYBUILD --- thermal energy storage --- residential buildings --- noise pollution --- environmental factors --- property prices --- genetic algorithm --- residential market --- phase change materials --- hybrid ventilated school building --- indoor thermal comfort --- thermal management --- energy conservation --- window frame --- granular aerogel --- energy saving --- IEQ --- bioaerosols --- airborne bacteria --- airborne fungi --- ozone --- portable air purifier --- ozone generation --- biomimetics --- building skin --- multifunctionality --- architectural design --- building envelope --- adaptability --- design framework --- building performance simulation --- renewable energy --- perovskite solar cells --- BIPV --- semi-transparent --- challenges --- indoor air quality (IAQ) --- CO2 production rate --- CO2 concentration --- occupancy estimation --- demand controlled ventilation (DCV) --- energy efficiency --- Cu-Zn-Al --- shape memory --- SMA --- seismic --- ausforming --- transformation temperatures --- super elasticity --- microstructure --- ventilated facade --- second-skin materials --- 3D printed materials --- additive manufacturing --- TRNSYS --- full-scale facility --- retrofit action --- deep reinforcement learning --- optimal control --- optimization --- HYBUILD --- thermal energy storage --- residential buildings --- noise pollution --- environmental factors --- property prices --- genetic algorithm --- residential market --- phase change materials --- hybrid ventilated school building --- indoor thermal comfort --- thermal management --- energy conservation

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This Special Issue aims at reporting current investigations on emerging materials and devices taking up the challenge of pursuing a significant improvement in the energy performance of buildings and indoor comfort. What is the contribution of innovative technologies in the epochal transition to low environmental impact buildings? This is the question addressed in this Special Issue, in order to offer a wide and heterogeneous amount of data to readers, along with results of high scientific impact concerning the application of innovative technologies in construction. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change following the COP 21 Conference on Climate Change, organized by United Nations, required the States to reduce carbon emissions in the building stock. In the European Union, almost 50% of final energy consumption is used for heating and cooling; out of this huge amount, 80% is used in buildings. It makes sense, then, that the Union’s goals are inherently linked to the real effort to renovate the building stock. To do this, in the EU and worldwide, the priority is to enhance energy efficiency, by deploying low-cost renewable energies and innovative technologies, especially those derived from recent achievements in the field of nanomaterials research, with special reference to building integration of novel technologies, spanning from chromogenics to semitransparent photovoltaics, super-insulating materials, and phase change materials. Articles here proposed deal with every construction or plant component of the building organism, taking advantage of novel technologies to improve their performance, from the envelope to structures, HVAC, and other technical systems, as well as indoor climate analyses in buildings and indoor environmental quality (IEQ), as well as visual comfort indoors.

Technology: general issues --- window frame --- granular aerogel --- energy saving --- IEQ --- bioaerosols --- airborne bacteria --- airborne fungi --- ozone --- portable air purifier --- ozone generation --- biomimetics --- building skin --- multifunctionality --- architectural design --- building envelope --- adaptability --- design framework --- building performance simulation --- renewable energy --- perovskite solar cells --- BIPV --- semi-transparent --- challenges --- indoor air quality (IAQ) --- CO2 production rate --- CO2 concentration --- occupancy estimation --- demand controlled ventilation (DCV) --- energy efficiency --- Cu-Zn-Al --- shape memory --- SMA --- seismic --- ausforming --- transformation temperatures --- super elasticity --- microstructure --- ventilated facade --- second-skin materials --- 3D printed materials --- additive manufacturing --- TRNSYS --- full-scale facility --- retrofit action --- deep reinforcement learning --- optimal control --- optimization --- HYBUILD --- thermal energy storage --- residential buildings --- noise pollution --- environmental factors --- property prices --- genetic algorithm --- residential market --- phase change materials --- hybrid ventilated school building --- indoor thermal comfort --- thermal management --- energy conservation --- n/a

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The book “Building Energy Audits-Diagnosis and Retrofitting” is a collection of twelve papers that focus on the built environment in order to systematically collect and analyze relevant data for the energy use profile of buildings and extended for the sustainability assessment of the built environment. The contributions address historic buildings, baselines for non-residential buildings from energy performance audits, and from in-situ measurements, monitoring, and analysis of data, and verification of energy saving and model calibration for various building types. The works report on how to diagnose existing problems and identify priorities, assess, and quantify the opportunities and measures that improve the overall building performance and the environmental quality and well-being of occupants in non-residential buildings and houses. Several case studies and lessons learned from the field are presented to help the readers identify, quantify, and prioritize effective energy conservation and efficiency measures. Finally, a new urban sustainability audit and rating method of the built environment addresses the complexities of the various issues involved, providing practical tools that can be adapted to match local priorities in order to diagnose and evaluate the current state and future scenarios towards meeting specific sustainable development goals and local priorities.

Research & information: general --- feature selection --- prediction of energy consumption --- electricity consumption --- machine learning --- non-residential buildings --- sustainability --- buildings --- neighbourhoods --- decision-making process --- key performance indicators --- KPIs --- built environment --- audit --- assessment tools --- brick 1 --- moisture 2 --- heat flow 3 --- energetic rehabilitation 4 --- non-destructive test 5 --- energy community (EC) --- renewable energy sources (RESs) --- citizen involvement --- co-ownership in renewable energies --- nonresidential buildings --- baselines --- EUI --- energy use intensities --- carbon emission intensities --- EPCs --- energy performance certificates --- building energy simulation --- school building --- field measurements --- validation --- airing --- windows and door opening --- occupancy behaviour --- energy efficiency measures --- retrofitting --- thermo-modernization --- final energy --- primary energy --- energy consumption --- home energy management system --- human comfort factor --- thermal comfort --- visual comfort --- demand response --- energy performance --- energy audits --- school buildings --- indoor climate --- HeLLo --- energy retrofit --- non-destructive test --- in situ --- hygrothermal measurement --- dynamic conditions --- hygrothermal simulation --- historic wall --- daylight --- lighting control --- lighting --- occupant preferences --- occupant satisfaction --- photosensor --- post-occupancy evaluation --- survey --- single-family houses --- embodied energy --- operational energy --- benchmarks --- renovations --- energy use intensity (EUI) --- embodied energy intensity (EEI) --- energy recovery time