Toward Energy-Efficient Buildings

Professor Lu joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an assistant professor in 2006; she was promoted to Professor in July 2018. Professor Lu has published 6 books/handbook chapters and over 350 SCI-cited journal papers. Currently, she is serving local government as The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Cleaner Production Partnership Programme, Task Force Member for Energy Management System Certification under Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) and as Working Group Member for Building Energy Codes (Electrical; Energy Audit; Lighting) under Buildings Energy Efficiency Ordinance. She is the Associate Editor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Section Editor-in-Chief (Energy) of International Journal of Sustainability, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Energy Engineering, Associate Editor of Energy Exploration & Exploitation, and Section Editor of Science Progress. She is also sits on the Editorial Board of several journals, including: Energy, Energy and Built Environment, Energy Storage and Saving (ENSS), etc. She is/was the Guest Professor of China University of Petroleum (Huadong) and Shandong Jianzhu University (China), UM Macao Distinguished Visiting Scholar (UM Macao Talent Program), visiting professor of Cracow University of Technology (Poland) and Imperial College London (UK) Dr. Chen is a Research Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK. He has over 10-year experience in sustainable building technology related to the passive architectural designs, renewable application in buildings and built environment modelling, and has led or managed multiple research projects including ARC, MOST, RGC and consultancy projects with the local government and industry. He has published over 40 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and coauthored a book in green building and renewable application areas. Dr. Chen has been awarded the DECRA Fellow in the Australian Research Council and Fulbright Scholar in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In addition, he serves as an editorial board member of Buildings, Energies and Advances in Applied Energy.Dr. Jianheng Chen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, where he also obtained his PhD in building energy in 2011. His research focuses on the fundamental utilization of radiative sky cooling technology and its integration with buildings, with the aim to achieve low-energy buildings and move towards carbon neutrality and improved building thermal environments.Dr. Kai Jiao is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, focusing on theoretical research on phase change energy storage of paraffin and participating in the development of paraffin thermal storage units for novel photovoltaic/thermal systems. Dr. Jiao has extensive experience in heat transfer analysis of paraffin and its composites. During his doctoral studies, he established a paraffin phase change heat transfer model based on the mixture theory, which allows for accurate prediction of the phase change process of paraffin and its composites.

• Introduction to carbon-neutral buildings and energy-efficient building envelopesFundamentals of building envelope designSolar radiation, the energy balance of buildings, and building energy useAdvanced thermal regulation strategies for energy-smart building envelopes: thermal insulation materials and building-integrated phase change materialsEnergy-efficient windows and facade technologies and energy balanceSpectral-selective nanomaterial solutions for low-energy buildings and a cool cityBuilding-integrated renewable energy technologiesBuilding energy assessment tools and evaluation integration approaches to energy-efficient buildingsBuilding energy performance modeling and simulation for energy systemsNovel passive energy-efficient building envelope technologies and prospects for sustainable energy systems