Worldwide Research on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Public Buildings

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Cruz-Lovera, Carmen de la
Perea Moreno, Alberto Jesús
Cruz-Fernández, José Luis de la
Álvarez-Bermejo, José Antonio
Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco
Publisher
MDPIDate
2017Subject
Energy savingEnergy efficiency
Sustainability
Buildings
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The present study details the significant contribution that different international institutions
have made to the field of sustainability and energy efficiency, with a focus on public buildings.
This has been achieved by making use of the database Scopus, by applying bibliometric techniques
and by analyzing the contents of articles published from 1976 to 2016. All the materials included
in the analysis have been reported from Scopus. Several key aspects of the publications have been
considered such as document type, language, subject area, journal type and keywords. Sustainable
Development, Sustainability, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency and Buildings have been
verified as the most used keywords. The obtained contributions have been classified geographically
and by institution, with the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia and Italy being the
leading research countries and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Delft University of Technology
and Tsinghua University the top contributing institutions. The most active categories in those fields
are engineering, social sciences and environmental issues in that order. It can be assumed that the
study of sustainability and energy efficiency across all its dimensions is of great interest for the
scientific community. The global environmental issue has led many countries to incorporate a wide
range of Energy Efficiency (EE) strategies in order to reduce energy consumption in public buildings,
a highly valued aspect by European Union energy labelling.