Low-Carbon Construction of Indoor Environments and Building Thermal Resilience Under Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Global climate change is leading to frequent extreme weather events, which pose great challenges in the low-carbon construction of indoor environments. When developing building environments with occupants’ wellbeing in mind, human-factor engineering is important, as various factors that interact with comfort, health, work efficiency, etc., exist, including the thermal environment, indoor air quality, lighting, and acoustic environments. Given that such coupled effects and interactions play an important role in building design and low-carbon construction, a deep understanding of indoor environments and their relations with humans is required, as well as the “people-oriented” development of buildings in a global context.

The main aim of this Special Issue is to explore the recent challenges and developments of indoor environmental quality and human comfort/health/productivity in various buildings, as well as how buildings are being adapted to enhance their flexibility and resilience in response to climate change. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Thermal comfort/outdoor thermal comfort/personal comfort system;
• Indoor pollutant exposure and health;
• Dynamic daylighting/nonvisual lighting;
• Comfort soundscape;
• Sensitive-people-oriented indoor environments, like for children and the elderly;
• Moisture and mold in buildings;
• Building thermal resilience/building mitigation and adaptation.

Dr. Chenqiu Du
Guest Editor

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