Post COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reconsideration for the Built Environment

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to address the reshaping of our built environment for future resilience and the creation of a healthier living environment in the post COVID-19 pandemic. We brought together interdisciplinary knowledge to address these challenges at three scales: city, neighborhood, and building scale, as well as the interdependence between them. This Special Issue consists of multidisciplinary collaborative research on building services, material science, indoor air quality, and human health and modelling. Research topics such as energy and environment buildings, the outdoor microclimate, and healthy cities and buildings are important areas for the future of our wellbeing and are also scopes within the Sustainable Development Goals.

Finally, the Special Issue will address research work discussed from the #SUJS2021 workshop “Sino-UK Joint Symposium on Post COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reconsideration for the Built Environment”. This workshop was supported by the British Council Newton Fund and NSFC China to discuss both the impact of the pandemic on the built environment and the reconsiderations that must to be made regarding the built environment in a post-pandemic world to reduce the risk of future infectious disease transmission.

Dr. John Kaiser Calautit
Dr. Priti Parikh
Guest Editors

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