The Binomial IEQ: Energy Demand
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 8690
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal environment assessment (comfort and stress indices, thermoregulation models, subjective investigations, microclimatic measurements, software); indoor air quality (iaq); historical buildings; standardization in the field of the ergonomics of the thermal environment
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Interests: daylight linked controls for energy saving and visual comfort; lighting for the cultural heritage; non visual effects of lighting
Interests: HVAC, Indoor comfort, Energy saving in final users, NZEB
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Interests: ergonomics of the thermal environment; indoor air quality (IAQ); microclimatic monitoring and measurement devices; building physics; historical buildings
Interests: sound fields in rooms for speech and music; characterization of materials for sound absorption and sound insulation; sound quality; noise control systems; thermoacoustics
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Only in recent years, the application of the human factors’ principles stated the need for rethinking the whole indoor built environment design. Indoor environments should be livable, comfortable, safe, and productive, with low energy costs, and their design has to be compliant with sustainability in a general context where the balance between man and nature is breaking. This holistic approach has changed the role of the project teams who need to be multi-disciplinary and be able to simulate energy performance of buildings and evaluate the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in an integrated design process.
To achieve a sustainable compromise in terms of IEQ and building energy requirements, several challenging questions must be answered about design, technical, engineering, psychological, and physiological issues and, finally, potential interactions among the four components of the IEQ.
This Special Issue invites scholars to contribute original research and review articles on innovative design, systems, and/or control domains that can enhance IEQ, work productivity, wellbeing in a built environment consistently with the building energy performance.
Potential research topics include (but are not limited to):
- Building energy simulation in the context of IEQ-related issues.
- Demand-response and smart technologies for high performing buildings
- Ergonomics of the built environment and design of flexible spaces
- Health, human performance and productivity in the built environment
- Human factors
- Physiological and psychological responses
- IEQ in special environments (e.g. cleanrooms, transport cabinets, greenhouses, livestock houses, hospitals etc.).
- Indoor environmental parameters (thermal, visual, aural, and olfactory comfort) in the context of energy-related issues.
- Innovative/Sustainable design for human physiological benefits
- Modeling
- Mutual interactions among IEQ components (thermal visual, acoustic and IAQ)
- NZEB
- Occupants Inter- and Intra-Individual differences for reducing inequalities
- Personalized comfort
- Post-occupancy evaluation and measurement
- Protocols to certificate/evaluate the Indoor Environmental Quality
- Smart sensors
Prof. Dr. Boris Igor Palella
Prof. Dr. Laura Bellia
Prof. Dr. Francesca Romana d’Ambrosio Alfano
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Riccio
Prof. Dr. Rosario Aniello Romano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Acoustic comfort
- Building energy simulation
- Built environment
- Indoor Air Quality
- Energy saving
- Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
- Lighting
- Noise control
- Sustainability
- Thermal comfort
- Visual comfort
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