Energy and Buildings

Energy and Buildings is a semi-monthly journal published by Elsevier, founded in 1977 and covering energy use and efficiency in buildings, indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, with a 2025 impact factor of 8.0Energy and Buildings 是由 Elsevier 出版的半月刊，1977 年创刊，涵盖建筑的能耗与能效，被科学引文索引扩展版与 Scopus 收录，2025 年影响因子为 8.0。

Scope

• Building energy use, efficiency and performance, with articles clearly linked to building energy建筑能耗、能效与性能，要求文章与建筑用能明确关联。
• Practical and experimental work, and simulation studies validated against measured or benchmark data实用与实验型研究，以及经实测或基准数据校验的模拟研究。
• Indoor environmental quality, ventilation and heating, ventilation and air conditioning efficiency室内环境质量、通风以及暖通空调能效。
• Solar and renewable energy in buildings, thermal storage and district heating and cooling建筑中的太阳能与可再生能源、蓄热以及区域供热供冷。
• Zero and positive energy buildings, building decarbonisation and grid interaction零能耗与正能量建筑、建筑脱碳以及与电网的协同。

History

• The journal was founded in 1977该刊于 1977 年创刊。
• It has published continuously since its first issue without any change of title自首期以来连续出版，刊名未曾变更。
• It is published by Elsevier with editorial support from the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction该刊由 Elsevier 出版，并由国际建筑研究与创新理事会提供编辑支持。
• It issues twenty-four times a year该刊每年出版 24 期。

Editors

• The journal has two editors-in-chief, Jianlei Niu of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China and Mattheos Santamouris of the University of New South Wales in Australia该刊有两位主编，即中国香港理工大学的 Jianlei Niu 与澳大利亚新南威尔士大学的 Mattheos Santamouris。
• An executive editor, Tianzhen Hong, is based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States执行编辑 Tianzhen Hong 任职于美国劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室。
• Its editorial board comprises about one hundred and fifty members from thirty-five countries编委会由来自 35 个国家的约 150 位成员组成。
• The journal is hybrid open access, offering an open access option alongside the subscription model该刊为混合开放获取，在订阅模式之外提供开放获取选项。