HVAC Research in Built Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)  can provide system support for building thermal environments and air quality environments. Building energy efficiency and energy systems, thermal environments and thermal comfort, indoor air quality and human health are the key issues in the field of HVAC research.  With the increasing demand for reducing building energy consumption and carbon emissions, achieving the goal of green and low-carbon buildings requires more efficient energy-saving technologies and low-carbon energy systems in buildings, including passive and active energy saving. Meanwhile, with the continuous improvement in people's living standards and in working environments, it is very important to determine reasonable thermal comfort requirements, and the building thermal environments need to meet people's these requirements under different environmental conditions. In addition, the main environmental exposure of most people is indoors, especially indoor air pollution exposure. Efficient control of this and improving indoor air quality are the fundamental ways to protect the health of personnel. In the above aspects, from the perspective of energy saving, carbon reduction, and ensuring people's health and comfort needs, the HVAC research field needs to further develop more efficient building energy-saving technologies and indoor environment construction methods.

The main aim of this Special Issue is to explore the recent developments of HVAC research in built environments. Topics include but are not limited to:

• New building energy-saving technology;
• Low- or zero-carbon building energy system;
• Building thermal environments;
• Indoor thermal comfort and thermal adaptation;
• Efficient indoor air pollution control technology;
• Indoor air quality and human health.

Dr. Jun Wang
Prof. Dr. Rongpeng Zhang
Dr. Dong Liu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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