Indoor Environmental Quality and Human Wellbeing
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 10207
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
When developing buildings with occupants’ wellbeing in mind, human-factor-engineering-based indoor environment creation is an important measure to improve the living environment and implement green and high-quality development for low-carbon buildings. Given various factors exist to affect the indoor environmental quality, including the thermal environment, indoor air quality, lighting, and acoustic environments, the coupled effects and their interactions with users play an important role for building design and control, which requires handling large amounts of information and knowledge in this field. In such a case, improving our understanding of the indoor environmental quality and their relations with human comfort, health, and work efficiency is worth exploring. Respond to the “people-oriented” development concept and the carbon neutralization goal in a global context can be simultaneous.
The main aim of this Special Issue is to explore the recent challenges and developments of environmental quality and human comfort/health in buildings. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Thermal comfort/thermal adaption/outdoor thermal comfort;
- Personal comfort system;
- Machine learning on thermal comfort prediction;
- Radiant/local heating‒cooling terminal;
- Indoor pollutant exposure and health;
- Moisture and mold in buildings;
- Dynamic lighting;
- Non-visual lighting and work efficiency;
- Comfort soundscape.
Dr. Chenqiu Du
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermal comfort
- indoor air quality
- dynamic lighting
- machine learning
- building moisture
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