Energy & Buildings special issue: “Resilient Ventilation in Relation to Health, Safety, and Climate Change”

We are happy to inform you that the Energy and Buildings special issue: “Resilient Ventilation in Relation to Health, Safety, and Climate Change”, including also further developed papers from the AIVC 2022 conference, has been published.

In this special issue, the role of ventilation and infiltration in building decarbonization, and improvement of indoor air quality including epidemic preparedness is highlighted. How can design, construction and renovation practices, innovative and digital technologies contribute in creating resilient ventilation strategies that help tackle today’s challenges in health, safety and climate change?

The following articles have already been published as part of this special issue:

• CFD modelling of infection control in indoor environments: A focus on room-level air recirculation systems. Shipeng Xu, Guangwei Zhang, Xiaoping Liu, Xiaoping Li
• Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential. Evangelos Belias, Dusan Licina
• Energy savings and exposure to VOCs of different household sizes for three residential smart ventilation systems with heat recovery. Klaas De Jonge, Janneke Ghijsels, Jelle Laverge
• Urban microclimate and climate change impact on the thermal performance and ventilation of multi-family residential buildings. Agnese Salvati, Maria Kolokotroni
• Multi-objective optimization of window configuration and furniture arrangement for the natural ventilation of office buildings using Taguchi-based grey relational analysis. Xin Yin, Mohammed W. Muhieldeen, Ruzaimah Razman
• Post-COVID ventilation design: infection risk-based target ventilation rates and point source ventilation effectiveness. Jarek Kurnitski, Martin Kiil, Alo Mikola, Karl-Villem Võsa, Amar Aganovic, Peter Schild, Olli Seppänen
• Would sneezing increase the risk of passengers contracting airborne infection? A validated numerical assessment in a public elevator. Huiyi Tan, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Hong Yee Kek, Wen Tong Chong, Syie Luing Wong, Garry Kuan Pei Ern, Guo Ren Mong, Wai Shin Ho, Pau Chung Leng, Mohamad Nur Hidayat Mat, KengYinn Wong
• Intelligent ventilation control in enclosed environment towards health and energy efficiency: a study of elevator cabins. Junqi Wang, Hanhui Yu, Nuodi Fu, Zhuangbo Feng, Congpei Li
• Quantitative correlation between buildings air permeability indicators: statistical analyses of over 400,000 measurements. Bassam Moujalled, Benedikt Kölsch, Adeline Mélois, Valérie Leprince
• Benefits and thermal limits of CO2-driven signaled windows opening in schools: an in-depth data-driven analysis. Alessandro Zivelonghi, Prashant Kumar
• Using trickle ventilators coupled to fan extractor to achieve a suitable airflow rate in an Australian apartment: a nodal network approach connected to a CFD approach. Mikael Boulic, Pierre Bombardier, Zain Zaidi, Andrew Russell, David Waters, Andries van Heerden
• A review of the indoor air quality in residential Passive House dwellings. Gabriel Rojas, Martin Fletcher, David Johnston, Mark Siddall
• Comparing mechanical ventilation control strategies for indoor air quality: monitoring and simulation results of a school building in Northern Italy. Giacomo Chiesa, Manuela Vigliotti

Please follow the link here to access the published papers.