Building and Environment

Papers
(The H4-Index of Building and Environment is 67. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Probable airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a poorly ventilated restaurant374
State of the art review on model predictive control (MPC) in Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) field178
Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic153
Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4149
Review and comparison of HVAC operation guidelines in different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic145
Ventilation and air cleaning to limit aerosol particle concentrations in a gym during the COVID-19 pandemic122
Occupancy-based HVAC control systems in buildings: A state-of-the-art review121
Sustainable material choice for construction projects: A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment framework based on BIM and Fuzzy-AHP117
Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment115
CNN-LSTM architecture for predictive indoor temperature modeling115
Contribution of urban functional zones to the spatial distribution of urban thermal environment111
Green finance gap in green buildings: A scoping review and future research needs110
Deep learning to replace, improve, or aid CFD analysis in built environment applications: A review106
How indoor environmental quality affects occupants’ cognitive functions: A systematic review99
The effects of 2D and 3D building morphology on urban environments: A multi-scale analysis in the Beijing metropolitan region98
Learning-based CO2 concentration prediction: Application to indoor air quality control using demand-controlled ventilation97
The effectiveness of cool and green roofs in mitigating urban heat island and improving human thermal comfort97
Impacts of green roofs on water, temperature, and air quality: A bibliometric review97
Life cycle assessment in the building design process – A systematic literature review95
Heritage values of ancient vernacular residences in traditional villages in Western Hunan, China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors94
Plug-Mate: An IoT-based occupancy-driven plug load management system in smart buildings94
Modelling the relationship between Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation barriers, usage and awareness on building project lifecycle92
Energy efficiency and carbon emission in high-rise buildings: A review (2005-2020)92
Review of visualising LCA results in the design process of buildings91
Study on an adaptive thermal comfort model with K-nearest-neighbors (KNN) algorithm90
Assessing the impacts of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature, urban heat island and carbon emission in Penang city, Malaysia89
The role and contribution of green buildings on sustainable development goals87
A systematic review of personal thermal comfort models87
Data collection methods for studying pedestrian behaviour: A systematic review86
A systematic approach to estimating the effectiveness of multi-scale IAQ strategies for reducing the risk of airborne infection of SARS-CoV-286
Performance assessment of low-cost environmental monitors and single sensors under variable indoor air quality and thermal conditions85
Multi-objective optimization of passive energy efficiency measures for net-zero energy building in Morocco85
Quantifying 3D building form effects on urban land surface temperature and modeling seasonal correlation patterns84
Investigation of indoor environment quality and factors affecting human comfort: A critical review83
Insufficient ventilation led to a probable long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on two buses81
Ventilation procedures to minimize the airborne transmission of viruses in classrooms81
A review of different ventilation modes on thermal comfort, air quality and virus spread control80
Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review80
The effect of occupant distribution on energy consumption and COVID-19 infection in buildings: A case study of university building79
Sugarcane bagasse waste fibers as novel thermal insulation and sound-absorbing materials for application in sustainable buildings79
Embodied energy and carbon emissions of building materials in China78
Numerical Study of Three Ventilation Strategies in a prefabricated COVID-19 inpatient ward77
COVID-19: Reduction of airborne transmission needs paradigm shift in ventilation76
Ten questions concerning active noise control in the built environment76
The influencing factors of China's green building development: An analysis using RBF-WINGS method76
An explainable one-dimensional convolutional neural networks based fault diagnosis method for building heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems75
A comprehensive review on the spray cooling system employed to improve the summer thermal environment: Application efficiency, impact factors, and performance improvement73
Thermal comfort modeling when personalized comfort systems are in use: Comparison of sensing and learning methods72
Studying spatial-temporal changes and relationship of land cover and surface Urban Heat Island derived through remote sensing in Yerevan, Armenia72
Large-eddy simulation of flow around an isolated building: A step-by-step analysis of influencing factors on turbulent statistics72
Indoor Air Quality associations with sick building syndrome: An application of decision tree technology72
Chiller fault detection and diagnosis with anomaly detective generative adversarial network72
Dilution-based evaluation of airborne infection risk - Thorough expansion of Wells-Riley model71
Occupancy prediction using deep learning approaches across multiple space types: A minimum sensing strategy71
Moving to a green building: Indoor environment quality, thermal comfort and health71
BIM- and IoT-based virtual reality tool for real-time thermal comfort assessment in building enclosures70
Modelling uncertainty in the relative risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by airborne aerosol transmission in well mixed indoor air70
Carbon value engineering: A framework for integrating embodied carbon and cost reduction strategies in building design69
Understanding the effects of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature based on local climate zones69
Psychological and physiological effects of a green wall on occupants: A cross-over study in virtual reality68
Vegetation cover and plant-trait effects on outdoor thermal comfort in a tropical city68
Comparison of hexahedral, tetrahedral and polyhedral cells for reproducing the wind field around an isolated building by LES68
Parametric optimization of daylight, thermal and energy performance of middle school classrooms, case of hot and dry regions68
Predicting the impacts of land use/land cover changes on seasonal urban thermal characteristics using machine learning algorithms67
Investigation of potential aerosol transmission and infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 through central ventilation systems67
Crowding has consequences: Prevention and management of COVID-19 in informal urban settlements67
Applying blockchain technology for building energy performance measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and the carbon credit market: A review of the literature67
Green roofs and green walls layouts for improved urban air quality by mitigating particulate matter67
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