Emerging Methodologies and Technologies for Assessing the Impact of Air Quality and Thermal, Visual, and Acoustic Comfort on Indoor Environmental Quality

Dear Colleagues,

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is increasing in importance in the design of contemporary buildings, particularly in low-energy buildings and smart and intelligent buildings. Indeed, IEQ is able to impact on the well-being, productivity, and health and safety of building occupants. The concept of IEQ is very broad and depends on many aspects, among which air quality and thermal, visual, and acoustic comfort are undoubtedly recognized as significant. Although the methodologies and techniques for separately assessing the different aspects are well known, to date there are no standardized methodologies and techniques for global IEQ assessment. In this context, it seems appropriate to move forward the knowledge, sharing studies that deal, in particular, with the evaluation of the combined effects of multiple factors on the IEQ. We would like to give the different groups working in these research fields the opportunity to publish their latest research in a Special Issue focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Indoor environmental quality and the well-being of occupants;
• Comfort conditions of occupants in built environments;
• Subjective and objective surveys for assessing IEQ ;
• Comfort control strategies and building energy uses;
• Dynamic building simulations and behavior modeling of occupants;
• Environmental monitoring: data collection and analysis.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Leccese
Prof. Dr. Giacomo Salvadori
Guest Editors

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