Low-Carbon Construction of Indoor Environments and Building Thermal Resilience Under Climate Change
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 37
Special Issue Editor
Interests: indoor environment; human thermal comfort/health
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
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
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- thermal comfort
- pollutant exposure
- daylighting
- comfort soundscape
- indoor environments
- moisture and mold in buildings
- building thermal resilience
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- Reprint: MDPI Books provides the opportunity to republish successful Special Issues in book format, both online and in print.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.
