E n e r g y E ff ic ie n c y in B u ild in g s • J o s é M a n u e l A n d ú ja r a n d S e r g io G ó m e z M Energy Efficiency e lg a r in Buildings Both New and Rehabilitated Edited by José Manuel Andújar and Sergio Gómez Melgar Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Energies www.mdpi.com/journal/energies Energy Efficiency in Buildings Energy Efficiency in Buildings Both New and Rehabilitated SpecialIssueEditors Jose´ ManuelAndu´jar SergioGo´mezMelgar MDPI•Basel•Beijing•Wuhan•Barcelona•Belgrade•Manchester•Tokyo•Cluj•Tianjin SpecialIssueEditors Jose´ManuelAndu´jar SergioGo´mezMelgar UniversityofHuelva UniversityofHuelva Spain Spain EditorialOffice MDPI St.Alban-Anlage66 4052Basel,Switzerland ThisisareprintofarticlesfromtheSpecialIssuepublishedonlineintheopenaccessjournalEnergies (ISSN1996-1073)(availableat:https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/specialissues/efficiency buildings). 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Contents AbouttheSpecialIssueEditors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii AntonioSa´nchezCordero,SergioGo´mezMelgarandJose´ManuelAndu´jarMa´rquez Green Building Rating Systems and the New Framework Level(s): A Critical Review of SustainabilityCertificationwithinEurope Reprintedfrom:Energies2020,13,66,doi:10.3390/en13010066 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 AlaiaSola,CristinaCorchero,JaumeSalomandManelSanmarti SimulationToolstoBuildUrban-ScaleEnergyModels:AReview Reprintedfrom:Energies2018,11,3269,doi:10.3390/en11123269 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 RokasValancius,RaoMartandSingh,AndriusJurelionisandJuozasVaiciunas AReviewofHeatPumpSystemsandApplicationsinColdClimates:EvidencefromLithuania Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,4331,doi:10.3390/en12224331 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 SergioGo´mezMelgar,MiguelA´ngelMart´ınezBoho´rquezand Jose´ManuelAndu´jarMa´rquez uhuMEBr: Energy Refurbishment of Existing Buildings in Subtropical Climates to Become MinimumEnergyBuildings Reprintedfrom:Energies2020,13,1204,doi:10.3390/en13051204 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 JamesBambaraandAndreasK.Athienitis EnergyandEconomicAnalysisforGreenhouseGroundInsulationDesign Reprintedfrom:Energies2018,11,3218,doi:10.3390/en11113218 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 XiaolongXu,GuohuiFeng,DandanChi,MingLiuandBaoyueDou Optimization of Performance Parameter Design and Energy Use Prediction for Nearly Zero EnergyBuildings Reprintedfrom:Energies2018,11,3252,doi:10.3390/en11123252 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Ga´borL.Szabo´andFerencKalma´r ParametricAnalysisofBuildings’HeatLoadDependingonGlazing—HungarianCaseStudy Reprintedfrom:Energies2018,11,3291,doi:10.3390/en11123291 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 BharathVarshRao,FriederichKupzogandMartinKozek PhaseBalancingHomeEnergyManagementSystemUsingModelPredictiveControl Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,3323,doi:10.3390/en11123323 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 YinxiaoZhu,MoonKeunKimandHuiqingWen Simulation and Analysis of Perturbation and Observation-Based Self-Adaptable Step Size MaximumPowerPointTrackingStrategywithLowPowerLossforPhotovoltaics Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,92,doi:10.3390/en12010092 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 HuyenDoandKristenS.Cetin Data-Driven Evaluation of Residential HVAC System Efficiency Using Energy and EnvironmentalData Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,188,doi:10.3390/en12010188. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Yi-YuHuangandTien-JihMa Using Edible Plant and Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate (LECA) to Strengthen the ThermalPerformanceofExtensiveGreenRoofsinSubtropicalUrbanAreas Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,424,doi:10.3390/en12030424. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 v SeunghuiLee,SungwonJungandJaewookLee Prediction Model Based on an Artificial Neural Network for User-Based Building Energy ConsumptioninSouthKorea Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,608,doi:10.3390/en12040608. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 YinanLi,NengZhuandBeibeiQin WhatAffectstheProgressandTransformationofNewResidentialBuildingEnergyEfficiency PromotioninChina:Stakeholders’Perceptions Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,1027,doi:10.3390/en12061027 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Uk-JooSungandSeok-HyunKim Development of a Passive and Active Technology Package Standard and Database for ApplicationtoZeroEnergyBuildingsinSouthKorea Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,1700,doi:10.3390/en12091700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 LinaLaFleur,PatrikRohdinandBahramMoshfegh EnergyRenovationversusDemolitionandConstructionofaNewBuilding—AComparative AnalysisofaSwedishMulti-FamilyBuilding Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,2218,doi:10.3390/en12112218 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 MoncefKrarti EvaluationofEnergyEfficiencyPotentialfortheBuildingSectorintheArabRegion Reprintedfrom:Energies2019,12,4279,doi:10.3390/en12224279 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 vi About the Special Issue Editors Jose´ ManuelAndu´jarMa´rquezgothisPhDin2000. HeiscurrentlyaFullProfessorofSystems EngineeringandAutomaticControlattheUniversityofHuelva,Spain.Throughouthisprofessional lifehehasreceived27awardsandacademichonors. Hehassupervised12doctoraltheses,eightof themprizewinning, andhas15internationalpatents. Hehasmorethan100paperspublishedin indexedjournalsintheISIJournalCitationReports.Inparticular,hehas55quartileQ1publications in24differentjournals,mostbeingamongthetop10andseveralbeingnumberone. Hehasledor co-led61researchprojectsfundedbypublicinstitutionsandcompanies.Hismainresearchinterests arecontrolengineering,renewableenergysystems,remotepilotedaircraftsystemsapplications,and engineeringeducation. Sergio Go´mez Melgar got his PhD in 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor of Structural EngineeringattheUniversityofHuelva(Spain),aVisitingProfessoratNanjingUniversity(China) and the CEOArchitect for LAR Arquitectura (Spain). His research is in the field of sustainable architectonical design and energy efficiency in buildings, communities, and cities. His work utilizesuhuMEB—anewmethodologyforthedesign,constructionandoperationofminimalenergy buildings(MEB),bothnewandretrofitted—tointroducetheBIM/BEMstandardfromthefirststeps ofthearchitectonicaldesign,aspartofthenecessaryholisticapproach. Thismeethoduseson-site realmeasurementsofphysicalvariables(temperature,humidity,airquality,solarradiation,energy, etc.) andrenewablesources(solar,geothermal,andhydrogen)integratedinthearchitectureofthe building. vii energies Review Green Building Rating Systems and the New Framework Level(s): A Critical Review of Sustainability Certification within Europe AntonioSánchezCordero1 ,SergioGómezMelgar2,* andJoséManuelAndújarMárquez2 1 ProgramadeCienciayTecnologíaIndustrialyAmbiental,EscuelaTécnicaSuperiordeIngeniería, UniversidaddeHuelva,CP.21007Huelva,Spain;[email protected] 2 TEP192ControlyRobótica,EscuelaTécnicaSuperiordeIngeniería,UniversidaddeHuelva, CP.21007Huelva,Spain;[email protected] * Correspondence:[email protected] Received:11November2019;Accepted:18December2019;Published:21December2019 Abstract:Increasingproblemsregardingpollutionandclimatechangehavelongbeendemonstrated byscientificevidence.Animportantportionofcarbonemissionsareproducedbythebuildingsector. Theseemissionsaredirectlyrelatednotonlytothebuilding’senergyconsumption,butalsoother buildingattributesaffectingtheconstructionandoperationofexistingbuildings:materialsselection, wastemanagement,transportation,waterconsumption,andothers.Tohelpreducetheseemissions, severalgreenbuildingratingsystem(GBRSs)haveappearedduringthelastyears.Thishasmade itdifficultforstakeholderstoidentifywhichGBRSscouldbemoresuitabletoaspecificproject. TheheterogeneityoftheGRBSscenariorequiresthecreationofatransparentandrobustindicator frameworkthatcanbeusedinanycountrywithintheEuropeanUnion(EU),whichisacommon EUframeworkofcoresustainabilityindicatorsforofficeandresidentialbuildingsLevel(s)with thegoaltoprovideasolidstructureforbuildingsustainabilitycertificationacrossallcountries oftheEU.ThispaperprovidesacomprehensivereviewofthemostcommonGBRSswithinthe EU:BuildingResearchEstablishmentAssessmentMethod(BREEAM),DeutscheGesellschaftfür NachhaltigesBauen(DGNB),HauteQualitéEnvironnementale(HQE),andLeadershipinEnergy &EnvironmentalDesign(LEED),andabottomupcomparisonoftheinfluenceinthefinalscore producedbytheindicatorsstatedbyLevel(s).Theindicatorsstudiedshowadifferentinfluenceof Level(s)indicatorsoneveryGBRS,whereLEEDandBREEAMweremostaffectedwhileHQEand DGNBwerelessso.ThispaperdemonstratestheheterogeneityofcurrentGRBSsintheEUscenario andthedifferencebetweensustainabilityassessments,whereDGNBseemstobemorealignedto thecurrentEUframework.Finally,thepaperconcludeswiththeneedtoworktoachievealignment betweentheGBRSandLevel(s). Keywords:Level(s);greenbuildingratingsystems;BuildingResearchEstablishmentAssessment Method (BREEAM); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB); Haute Qualité Environnementale(HQE);LeadershipinEnergy&EnvironmentalDesign(LEED) 1.Introduction Theworld’sglobalenergyconsumptionhasbeensteadilyincreasingduringthelastseveralyears, whichhasconsequentlyproducedanequivalentgrowthinatmosphericCO2emissions[1].Theconstant urbanizationprocessofdevelopingcountriesandworldwidedevelopmentofthebuildingconstruction sectorhavebeendefinedassomeofthemostimportantcausesofthegrowthinpollution[2].Atthe same time, as the construction rate of cities and buildings keeps steadily growing, buildings in developedcountrieskeeponincreasingtheirenergydemandstosatisfytheinhabitant’sneeds[3,4]. Energies2020,13,66;doi:10.3390/en13010066 1 www.mdpi.com/journal/energies