Editorial - NSB 2023 Special issue

The 13th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics (NSB 2023) took place at Aalborg University in the city of Aalborg, Denmark, from the 12th to the 14th of June, 2023. NSB is a renowned international conference series in Building Physics, held every 3 years since 1987. Although organized in Nordic countries, the conference is in English and is not limited to cold climates. It has grown to attract participants worldwide, to the point that more than half of the participants have been from other countries.

This symposium is intended to be a forum for scientists, practitioners, PhD students, and other building professionals to share new research results, demonstrate innovative and sustainable building technologies, and discuss current and future challenges and solutions within building physics, heat, air, and moisture transfer in buildings, and on aspects of moisture problems in the built environment, energy performance, and indoor environmental quality. The NSB 2023 central theme was ‘Building physics as a key player for the sustainable built environment’.

The Journal of Building Physics has a tradition of holding a special issue for the journal extension of the best papers presented at the Nordic Symposium on Building Physics. Therefore, the present special issue is dedicated to the 13th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics (NSB 2023). 15 of the best Scientific Papers to be invited for this special issue. The authors of 10 of these invited papers replied positively to submit an original manuscript extending their conference paper presented at NSB 2023. After a thorough double-blind peer-review process, seven articles were accepted for publication in the present special issue of the Journal of Building Physics.