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Net Zero Transition in Buildings

Emerging Concepts and Technologies

  • 1st Edition - June 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Xiaojun Luo, Francisco Sierra
  • Language: English

of solutions to achieve zero carbon in the field of building and construction. This book provides an update on new technologies and emerging approaches that can support and promot… Read more

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of solutions to achieve zero carbon in the field of building and construction. This book provides an update on new technologies and emerging approaches that can support and promote the energy transition and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment, both in individual buildings and groups of buildings. This book presents real-world case studies and expert insights on how to apply a wide range of cutting-edge digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, genetic algorithms, and computer vision, as well as energy-efficient devices like heat pumps, energy storage systems, adsorption chillers and dehumidification systems, liquid-flow windows, solar and wind power systems, green roofs, cogeneration systems, and internet of things. It also explores emerging concepts such as plus energy building, positive energy block, integrated building information systems and life cycle assessment, integrated demand and supply side management, peer-to-peer energy sharing and embodied carbon reduction, which are already beginning to emerge as solutions for achieving a zero-carbon built environment in the near future.

Key features

  • Offers thorough guidelines for the use of new technologies in designing net zero buildings and retrofitting older buildings to meet zero-carbon emissions standards.
  • Reviews the state of the art as well as emerging solutions to encourage their adoption at scale, supporting the need for the construction sector to achieve challenging climate change-offsetting goals.
  • Features real-world case studies and implementation insights (motivations, limitations, challenges) in each chapter, providing valuable, actionable recommendations for different types of building.
  • Presents future research pathways into other cost-effective and economically productive decarbonization efforts for buildings.

Readership

Academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in civil and structural engineering; construction engineering; sustainable built environments’ design, operations, and management; energy and environmental engineering; urban planning, growth development, and regeneration. Engineering practitioners, R&D professionals, design consultants, and other decision-making stakeholders in the AECO industries; building services engineers, facilities managers, and performance assessors; policy officers and public and private agencies charged with the implementation of sustainable practices for buildings and infrastructure assets geared toward energy transition and reduction of CO2 emissions

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Net Zero transition within the built environment
Part I: Physical Solutions

2. Advancements and Trends in Heat Pump Technology for Net Zero Energy Buildings

3. Typical advanced energy storage technologies for zero-carbon buildings

4. Adsorption vacuum dehumidification for low-carbon indoor environment

5. Liquid-flow window in net-zero buildings

6. Zero-Energy Human Habitat: Survive from Earth to Mars

7. Integrating Solar and Wind Power in Buildings: Concepts and Methods with Practical Applications

8. Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Buildings Using IoT Sensors: A Pathway to Net-Zero Transition

9. Green roof in combating urban heat: A thematic review of heat mitigation mechanism, potential evaluation and influencing factors

Part II: Digital technologies

10. A Sequential GA-Based Optimization for NZEB Clusters to Minimize Low-Voltage Distribution Network Overvoltage Risks

11. Computer vision to advance the sensing and control of Net Zero Transition in Buildings

12. Machine learning for data driven intelligence towards Net Zero Buildings

13. Integrating Blockchain Technology for Advancing Low-Carbon Building Solutions

Part III: Emerging Concepts and Approaches

14. BIM-Driven Whole Lifecycle Assessment: A Pathway to Net Zero Design

15. Integrated Demand and Supply-Side Management: A Review of Concepts and Case Studies

16. Plus Energy Building: definition and technology solutions

17. Exploring Positive Energy Block Potentials: A Parametric Analysis Approach

18. Navigating Policy Challenges in Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading

19. An agenda for the UAE Net Zero Transition in Buildings

20. Conclusions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Xiaojun Luo

Xiaojun Luo, Senior Lecturer, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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Francisco Sierra

Francisco Sierra, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK