Indoor/Outdoor Environment Quality: Simulation, Measurement and Evaluation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2024 | Viewed by 1905
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal environment; thermal comfort; cognitive performance; physiological responses
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Compared with the natural environment, the built environment has triggered urban heat islands and caused air pollution in many cities around the world. Many scholars have explored built factors that affect the air quality and the physiological response to air quality, creating many popular areas of research, such as urban microclimate, indoor air quality, human thermal comfort, etc. However, our understanding of air quality is still limited, and the existing literature has not clarified the impacts of the thermal environment on air pollution. In addition, most of the research conducted on air quality is mainly conducted in developed countries with findings that could not be applied in developing counties because of regional differences in climate and construction. We are therefore hoping that more research could be conducted on indoor and outdoor air quality, using both measured and simulated methods to gain a better understanding of the interactions between construction and air quality, as well as the human physiological response to air quality.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for a selection of papers that would explore the indoor or the outdoor air quality, the physiological responses to air quality, and discuss adaptive design and construction methods. Articles related to (but not limited to) the following topics are encouraged for submission:
- Indoor/outdoor thermal environment measurement or simulation;
- Indoor/outdoor air-quality measurement or simulation;
- Thermal comfort and adaptation;
- Climate change and air pollution impacts;
- Adaptation and mitigation strategies;
- Climate adaptive urban planning;
- Healthy building.
Prof. Dr. Weiwei Liu
Dr. Jiayu Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal environment
- air quality
- thermal comfort
- cognitive performance
- urban heat island
- mitigation strategies
