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EditorialAdvanced Building Materials for Passive House andEnergy Storage

Sumin Kim,1 Jae D. Chang,2 and Jae-Han Lim3

1Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea2The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA3Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Correspondence should be addressed to Sumin Kim; [email protected]

Received 26 January 2017; Accepted 26 January 2017; Published 20 March 2017

Copyright © 2017 Sumin Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Buildings are responsible for more than 40 percent of globalenergy use and one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions,both in developed and developing countries (UNEP, 2009).Therefore building sector has the largest potential to reducethe significant greenhouse gas emissions. Nowadays passivehouse and nearly zero-energy building have been a hotissue for the sustainable building design and construction(Jurgen Schnieders, 2006). To do this, it is necessary to reducethe energy requirement during construction and operationperiods. To reduce the energy consumption in buildingswithout discomfort, advanced building materials, includ-ing high-performance concrete, insulation materials, wood-based materials, thermal energy storage, high-insulated win-dows, and air-tight wall constructions, should be developedand applied to the building components (Feist, 2005). Andthermal energy storage systems (i.e., phase change materials(PCM)) can be used to reduce energy consumption ofbuildings. It means that the application of PCM in buildingsnot only saves energy but also decreases the temperature fluc-tuation. By utilizing these technologies, it is also much easierto achieve that the architect and engineers can reduce energydemand in buildings. By stimulating energy efficiency inexisting and new buildings, significant reductions in energydemand can be achieved in passive house and zero-energybuildings. During the wide propagation of the advancedbuilding technologies, governmental subsidies can be moreattractive to individual construction projects and the effectiveway to promote at a large scale (Audenaert, 2008).

This special issue aims to publish high quality researcharticles and review articles addressing recent advances onadvanced building materials for saving energy. During the

past few months, we reviewed 14 research papers submittedby international distinguished scholars. During the intensiveblind-peer-reviewprocess and in-depth discussions, 5 articleswere accepted for the publication, even if the other paperswere rejected mainly due to the discrepancy in scope of thisspecial issue. Accepted papers were ended up with a usefulreview and edit process to improve the quality of paper.The related topics of accepted papers include the soil in theLoess Plateau region as one of traditional building materials,an efficient steel beam structure for modular construction,foam concretematerials with good thermal insulation perfor-mance, the biomechanical system in an industrial manufac-turing process, and the reinforced self-compacted engineeredcementitious composite beams. Some article analyzed thecompressive behavior of raw soil andmodified soil specimensthrough experiments and proposed the generalized stress-strain equations for the widespread application. Some articleinvestigated the structural behavior of large-scale reinforcedself-compacted engineered cementitious composite beamsvia theoretical models. Some article dealt with a systematicdesign approach for the development of an efficient steelbeam section for modular construction based on Six-Sigma.And some article proposed a biomechanical system for theemulation of the movement of human arm, leg, and spinemovements, as an industry alternative to manage heavyoperations in a manufacturing process.

Sumin KimJae D. ChangJae-Han Lim

HindawiAdvances in Materials Science and EngineeringVolume 2017, Article ID 5792427, 1 pagehttps://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5792427

https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5792427

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