New Insights into Indoor Air Quality in Sustainable Buildings
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 943
Special Issue Editor
Interests: indoor air quality; air cleaning; ventilation engineering; air conditioning; building technology; energy saving
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Dear Colleagues,
People spend 80 to 90% of their time indoors, and indoor air quality directly affects people’s health and comfort. With the development of technology and people's awareness of the environment, we must start to see indoor air quality in a new light. Indoor air quality is not only the control of harmful gases and particulate pollution, it also the concerns on the influence of indoor pollutants on people’s health. Other new indoor pollutants and odors should be also paid attention to. There is also a close relationship between the built environment and outdoor air, the urban environment and global climate change. Analyzing the correlation between indoor air quality and the outdoor environment is the key to creating high-quality indoor air. Indoor air quality is not significantly improved without modern technology, such as artificial intelligence, air purification, ventilation design, etc. An important direction of sustainable architecture is incorporating indoor air quality into the whole process of building design. We can only achieve a healthy and comfortable indoor environment when the air quality of the built environment is comprehensively evaluated and managed. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to explore new perspectives on indoor air quality in sustainable buildings to promote paying attention to indoor environmental quality, providing innovative approaches and best practices for improving this.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but will not be limited to, the following topics:
- New findings on indoor pollutants;
- The indoor environment and people’s health;
- Pollution source control;
- New technologies for air cleaning;
- New technologies for ventilation;
- Smart technology for air quality;
- Healthy building materials and interior decoration.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Ying Sheng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- indoor air quality
- pollution source control
- indoor exposure
- air cleaning
- ventilation
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