Maintaining environmental conditions for proper plant growth in greenhouses requires managing a variety of factors; ventilation is particularly important because inside temperatures can rise rapidly in warm climates. The structure of the window insta...
This study evaluates the feasibility of continuous indoor pollutant monitoring as an indirect method for assessing extended ventilation performance in residential buildings. This research addresses key limitations of conventional short-term tracer-ga...
This study presents a multi-objective optimisation of building thermo-modernisation for multi-family buildings. The applied model has considered alternative solutions for insulation materials, with different thicknesses and different types of windows...
Predicted natural ventilation (NV) often diverges from actual performance in dwellings. This discrepancy arises in part because most design tools do not account for how occupants actually operate windows. This study aims to determine how window geome...
Adequate ventilation is necessary for thermal comfort and reducing risks from infectious bio-aerosols in hospital wards, but achieving this with mechanical ventilation has carbon and energy implications. Natural ventilation is often limited to window...
A lack of ventilation in multi-unit dwellings can affect human health adversely owing to accumulated radon gases; therefore, developing immediate and effective methods to reduce radon gas in indoor living environments is urgently needed. Therefore, t...
Reliable estimation of the air change rate from CO2 decay measurements is essential for ventilation assessment, but results may strongly depend on the assumed background concentration and the selected analysis window. This study compares the ISO 1256...
Night ventilation coupled with thermal mass is an effective means of reducing overheating in passive buildings. Successful systems require a high airflow rate coupled with enhanced convective heat transfer to the thermal mass. This work presents resu...
In Poland and other countries in Central Europe, residential buildings from the second half of the 20th century dominate, which have recently undergone deep thermomodernisation. Research on the retrofitting of residential buildings has focused mainly...
Natural ventilation plays an important role on the thermal and energy performance of a building. The present study aims to analyze the natural ventilation conditions of a dwelling in a Mediterranean climate and their impacts on the thermal and energy...
Can building performance simulation reproduce measured summertime indoor conditions of a multi-residential building in good conformity? This question is answered by calibrating simulated to monitored room temperatures of several rooms of a multi-resi...
Owing to the recent increase in the number of warning reports and alerts on the dangers of fine dusts, there has been an increasing concern over fine dusts among citizens. In spaces with poor ventilation, the occupants are forced to open the window t...
The efficiency of positive-pressure ventilation (PPV) in multi-story buildings is determined not only by the technical parameters of the mobile ventilators but also by the geometry of the gas exchange path. This paper presents the results of a comput...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant increases in morbidity, mortality, and energy consumption, primarily due to infection control measures. Hospitals, as frontline responders, are particularly vulnerable to infection risks due to dense popul...
In this paper, we use a path model to study natural ventilation in classrooms and research the link between air change rate, occupancy, and both outdoor and indoor physical variables. In general, the path model is derived from the building physics an...
This study investigates the performance of different demand-controlled ventilation strategies for improving indoor air quality while optimizing energy efficiency. The experimental research was conducted at the Indoor Live Lab at the University of Coi...
Energy-efficient renovation of existing buildings is one of the important approaches to achieving sustainable development. This study takes a naturally ventilated sports hall (without heating or air conditioning systems) at a university in Weifang, S...
Summer overheating has emerged as the primary comfort challenge in rural housing under a warming climate. Conventional retrofit measures are often infeasible due to high costs and limited technical capacity. This study investigates how spatial config...
In buildings with good-quality thermal insulation of external partitions, the main component of the building’s heat balance is the heat demand for ventilation. The reduction of this energy demand cannot be achieved at the expense of thermal com...
This systematic review assesses indoor air quality (IAQ) in tropical residences (Köppen Af/Am/Aw), explicitly linking IAQ to ventilation from in situ monitoring and, when relevant, occupant surveys (surveys synthesized qualitatively). This focus...
The need to achieve energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission decreases within the building sector requires the implementation of a supportive legal framework. To fulfil this requirement, a building certification system must be developed that is...
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There are limited data on air quality parameters, including airborne particulate matter (PM) in residential green buildings, which are increasing in prevalence. Exposure to PM is associated with cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, and since Americ...
The purpose of energy-saving retrofit of rural dwellings is to obtain a more comfortable indoor thermal environment with reasonable investment. The utilization rate of heating and air conditioning equipment for dwellings in poor rural areas is very l...
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the carbon footprint, energy demand and life cycle costs of a model of a building located in the Central Europe climate zone. One specific example—the quantitative differences in global warming pote...
Button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) cultivation in India is highly seasonal due to strict microclimatic requirements and limited access to controlled environment infrastructure among smallholder farmers. This study evaluates an IoT-controlled microcl...
Rural self-constructed homes in China’s cold-temperate regions often exhibit poor energy performance due to limited budgets and substandard construction, leading to a high reliance on active systems and low climate resilience. This study assess...
Indoor environmental quality profoundly impacts student learning outcomes and teacher effectiveness, particularly in primary education, where children spend most of their developmental years. The study compares the New Zealand Ministry of Education&r...
Sustainable renovation is a critical aspect for designing energy-efficient buildings with reasonable cost and high indoor living standards. The objective of this paper is to investigate various renovation scenarios for an old, uninsulated building wi...
Natural ventilation (NV) is an effective passive strategy for reducing building cooling demand, yet its performance varies substantially with climate and may not increase proportionally with larger openings. This study examines the nonlinear cooling...
This study aimed to estimate the heating load (HL) and the cooling load (CL) of a residential building using neural networks and to simulate the thermal behavior of a four-layered wall with different orientations. The neural network models were devel...
Single-person households are among the fastest-growing housing types, exceeding 35% of all households in Korea, yet field evidence on their indoor environmental quality (IEQ) remains scarce. This study monitored temperature, relative humidity, PM2.5,...
Building energy renovation planning should be based on a multi-criteria evaluation that targets both reduced energy consumption and a high-quality indoor thermal environment. The present study investigates the building energy retrofit technologies of...
Respiratory sound monitoring is a promising non-invasive tool for precision pig farming, but practical evidence from calibrated room-level deployment under degraded air-quality conditions remains limited. This study reports a 28-day exploratory room-...
The Chengdu–Chongqing Twin-City Economic Circle (CC-TCEC), located in the Sichuan Basin, frequently experiences persistent winter PM2.5 pollution due to basin-constrained ventilation and strong meteorology–emission coupling. Using daily P...
Accurate prediction of chiller energy consumption is crucial for the efficient operation and intelligent management of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in large buildings. However, such prediction remains challenging due to t...
Climate change poses significant challenges for building energy retrofit, as solutions optimized for present-day conditions may become suboptimal under future climates. Although multi-objective optimization is an effective approach for identifying re...
Saudi Arabia’s expanding rehabilitation of historic places requires decision tools that connect monitored performance with conservation priorities and carbon consequences. This study develops a carbon-aware heritage decision twin for a traditio...
Taiwan is located in a subtropical region with high temperatures and humidity. Office spaces are located in air-enclosed rooms in buildings, where doors and windows remain closed and only a central air-conditioning system provides temperature adjustm...
A properly designed house should provide occupants with the high level of thermal comfort at low energy demand. On many occasions investors choose to add additional insulation to the buildings to reduce heat demand. This may lead to overheating of th...
Inlet design assumes that supply air from side-wall inlets mixes with house air over several metres, but whether this holds in a densely caged multi-tier house, where cages and birds obstruct the jet, is untested. The bird-zone environment of a comme...
Outdoor pedestrian wind comfort and indoor natural ventilation are important aspects of wind environment performance in high-rise residential developments. However, the two objectives are evaluated in different spatial domains and may exhibit inconsi...
Buildings account for a significant share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting the importance of passive design strategies for improving residential energy efficiency and thermal comfort. This systematic review, con...
Enhancing the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of buildings is a significant global aim. New construction regulations are, therefore, geared specifically towards low-emission and energy-efficient projects. However, there are numerou...
Ingress of air from neighboring apartments is an important source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in residential multi-story buildings. It affects the measurement and estimation of particle deposition rate and penetration factor. A blower-door met...
Building heating energy demand is influenced by indoor temperature, air exchange, and climatic conditions. This study examines the individual and combined effects of these parameters on a district-heated multi-apartment residential building in Osijek...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains one of the most frequent and clinically relevant chronic respiratory complications of extreme prematurity. Although successive definitions have improved disease classification, most are still based on oxygen r...
This research explores the energy behaviour of a traditional house on the Mediterranean coast of south-eastern Spain. The objective of the work is to determine the optimal passive strategies for rehabilitating a traditional house, improving its energ...
Energy efficiency has become a crucial focus with the growing attention on sustainable development and decreasing energy consumption in the built environment. Different construction methods are being applied worldwide, such as conventional, modular,...
In this study, local measurement and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) were employed to evaluate the thermal comfort in a residential environment where desiccant cooling is performed in an outdoor air condition, which is the typical summer weather i...
An important part of the multi-family housing stock in Sweden was built during the record years 1961–1975 and is in need of extensive renovation to be modernized. The stock is also at the center of political discussion of how to sustain ‘...
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