Designing IAQ-Resilient Post-Pandemic Buildings
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Editor
I read carefully the review entitled "Designing IAQ-resilient post-pandemic building” by Dr Lingua and co-Authors concerning efforts stake-holder are facing to support the transition of the building sector to include both healt and well-being among priorities. The authors address this topic by using a comprehensive analysis of several economic, environmental, and health variables.
From my readings, this paper is suitable for publication in Sustainability after some minor revisions of the current version of the manuscript.
Implicitly, the authors describe the environment of wide cities and seek to increase the resilience of complex systems, namely large cities, to multiple environmental hazards of which there was little awareness until the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since they submitted a review paper, in my opinion, the authors should evaluate the sustainability of shifting the paradigm from intense land use of large cities to the recovery of smaller, depopulation-prone cities.
I included my detailed minor comments and suggestions for the authors in the file entitled “sustainability-2149732-peer-review-v1_ANNOTATED.pdf” which is attached to this mail.
Best regards
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Reviewer 2 Report
Title:
Designing IAQ-resilient post-pandemic buildings
Authors: Carola Lingua, Giulia Crespi, Cristina Becchio and Stefano Paolo Corgnati
The paper focuses on an important issue of nowadays related to changes to human life and habits as after The COVID-19 pandemic, putting Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in the spotlight. The paper provides useful information about the design, construction, and operation of an IAQ-resilient building in a post-pandemic era, for it to be capable of guaranteeing a good trade off between energy- and health-related objectives. Managing and adapting to these conditions in a warming climate can present substantial difficulties, especially in climates already at risk for humans.
Abstract
Please structure the abstract as:
Introduction-Aims
Method
Results and interpretation
Introduction:
Literature review is missing.
Please develop the literature review and update to 2022
Please analyses critically the findings of the articles and the limitations.
Please indicate also at least tree similar article to your research published recently (last 5 years).
Aim of the study is not clear indicated
Methodology
Line 140: Figure 1. Please insert the datasource
Methodology should be inserted as subchapter of your paper.
Flowchart of your research to be added
Data collection and analysis can be step in the methodology section.
The subchapter Results should become Discussions and Results. Discussion subchapter is not relevant presented. Must be developed.
What is the main question addressed by the research?
The main question addressed. The subject to which the paper address is very actual one, Post pandemic period. The paper review of wide range of articles (but must develop) in this research domain; their advantages and disadvantages etc are not enough exploited in a special subchapter of literature review.
Is it relevant and
interesting?
The paper is relevant especially nowadays in Post-pandemic in the complex environment. It synthetizes the actual available literature data on different platforms of investigations. The authors must explain better why they choose this platforms.
The discussions are not satisfactory presented in the paper. Please revise.
How original is the topic?
Is an actual topic with medium degree of originality; but it is important subject especially in nowadays period, authors findings confirmed that proposed management models can successfully contribute to wellbeing of individuals.
What does it add to the subject
area compared with other published material?
The paper is well documented because the authors cited more than 95 scientific published articles; we suggested to develop and to be updated to 2022.
We consider useful for the paper also the following published article. Please see and cite it: Marcu, F.; Hodor, N.; Indrie, L.; Dejeu, P.; Ilieș, M.; Albu, A.; Sandor, M.; Sicora, C.; Costea, M.; Ilieș, D.C.; Caciora, T.; Huniadi, A.; Chiș, I.; Barbu-Tudoran, L.; Szabo-Alexi, P.; Grama, V.; Safarov, B. Microbiological, Health and Comfort Aspects of Indoor Air Quality in a Romanian Historical Wooden Church. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 9908. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189908
Is the paper well written?
The paper is well written. The quality of English translation is good.
Is the text clear and easy to read?
The text is not very well structured. Methodology and discussions sections must be seriously revised.
Are the conclusions consistent with the evidence and arguments presented?
The results and discussions subchapters must be developed.
Best regards,
December 2022
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Reviewer 3 Report
The topic and results of the manuscript presented an important issue at the present time. In general, the manuscript is well presented, the structure of a scientific paper is clear, and can be considered suitable for publication in the Sustainability. However, there are some suggestions that can be made to further clarify the content of the study.
1 The language still requires some work, and check the paper once again to correct the remaining typos and grammatical errors. For example, ' the exiting building stock' should be changed to ' the existing building stock' in Lines 34-35. 'a IAQ-resilient post-pandemic' should be changed to 'an IAQ-resilient post-pandemic' in Line 117.
2\ For introduction, it is recommended that authors emphasize knowledge gaps, that is, what is the difference between this Review paper and other Review papers in this field?
3\The literature review in the current version is too poor. It is suggested that authors improve the quality of their literature review by adding some recent works. It is suggested you consider the works published in Sustainability, as well. Also, the References and Bibliography are malformed and need correction before publishing.
4\ The work in this paper aims to provide useful information about the design, construction, and operation of an IAQ-resilient building in a post-pandemic era, and to strengthen the relationship between research content and journal scope, some of latest studies on carbon emissions in building operations are also worth discussing and adding. E.g., DOI:10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109705; DOI:10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119401;
5\ For results, the authors reviewed the recent literature related to the two main topics. It is also suggested that the authors further discuss the future trends related to these topics.
6\ For methodology, it is recommended to elaborate on the literature collection method, such as adding details of the time frame of the selected literature, the amount of literature, etc.
7\ For some details, it is recommended that to be careful about using bold in Table 1.
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