Special Issue "Balancing Indoor Air Quality, Health, and Climate Change Implications in the COVID-19 Era"

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Human Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 March 2021).

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Francesco Martellotta
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Guest Editor
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria Civile e dell’Architettura, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: architectural acoustics; acoustic properties of materials; measurement techniques in acoustics; psychoacoustics; indoor environment quality; thermal comfort; innovative technologies for energy saving
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The current COVID-19 pandemic has been showing that proper air change is an essential feature that should be ensured for any indoor space in order to guarantee proper dilution of viral load and thus reduce contagion probability. The lack of a clear timing for vaccine preparation, combined with the many uncertainties related to seasonal effects on the COVID-19 virus, seem to suggest that in order to reduce contagion risks once lockdown will end, workplaces and other public spaces where social interaction takes place, should adopt proper strategies to increase ventilation and ensure proper contaminants dilution. Given the nature of many buildings it cannot be excluded that, apart from spaces where mechanical ventilation is available, this control might imply user involvement in controlling windows (or any other suitable aperture). Such actions might be even more needed in more recent buildings where airtightness is customary. In addition, fears about possible viral outbreaks of different nature in the future might likely suggest that such actions might become part of our daily behavior, inducing public bodies to enforce such strategies on a long term basis. Clearly, any such decision, is likely to have significant implications in terms of energy balance at the building level with all the consequent effects in terms of environmental impact on the atmosphere and on climate change.

The Special Issue will welcome contributions from various fields discussing single, or, possibly, combined aspects related to the strategies to improve Indoor Air Quality, to address contaminant-dilution problems, and possibly addressing, at the same time, their implications on the atmosphere and on climate change issues.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Martellotta
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • indoor air quality
  • ventilation
  • dilution
  • COVID-19
  • energy saving
  • climate change

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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