Sustainable Building and Sustainable Indoor Environmental Quality (3rd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

A sustainable building encompasses both the structure and the use of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout the building’s lifecycle. It covers energy use, water use, indoor environmental quality, material selection, stormwater infiltration, and building energy management. This includes design and construction, maintenance, and renovation, and continues through to demolition.

Sustainable indoor environmental quality refers to the conditions inside a building, i.e., air quality, lighting, thermal conditions, ergonomics, and their effects on occupants or residents.

This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the research works on the following topics:

• A combined evaluation of indoor environmental quality and well-being for occupants. The well-being of people is defined in terms of their health, comfort, and happiness;
• Sustainable indoor environmental quality with a holistic perspective and the evaluation of both individual and combined parameters within the indoor air quality, thermal comfort, visual comfort, and acoustical quality, with a focus on the combined effects and evaluation of more than one parameter at a time;
• New knowledge within social sustainability and influence on the overall assessment of sustainable buildings;
• Energy-saving and energy flexibility in buildings and clusters of buildings;
• Sustainable renewable energy and energy storage systems.

The second edition/volume can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/bul_ind_v2

Prof. Dr. Alireza Afshari
Prof. Dr. Jinhan Mo
Prof. Dr. Matthew Johnson
Guest Editors

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• sustainable building
• indoor environmental quality
• ventilation
• energy storage
• air quality
• filtration
• air cleaning
• energy saving