Built Environment and Human Comfort

Dear Colleagues,

A built environment is designed and created to ensure the health, comfort, safety, and productivity of occupants. Since humans’ interaction with the environment is through senses such as touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste, and each of these senses leads to a certain degree of comfort, human assessment is affected by a great number of different factors. If those factors are not addressed properly, it would lead to poor levels of comfort, to discomfort, or even to harm and ill health for occupants. Regardless of the personal factors, aspects of human comfort include thermal environment, visual ambiance, acoustics, indoor air quality, and hygienic comfort. The approaches to dealing with these stressors can act independently or in conjunction. Furthermore, energy consumption and environmental impact should also be considered. A built environment can be an indoor environment, such as building rooms and passenger compartments of transport vehicles, or an outdoor environment, such as urban open spaces. We invite scientists and engineers to contribute with their research papers on various aspects of the built environment and human comfort in this Topic.

Dr. Wei Liu
Prof. Dr. Manuel Carlos Gameiro Da Silva
Dr. Dayi Lai
Topic Editors