Building and Environment

Article	Citations
Probable airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a poorly ventilated restaurant	374
State of the art review on model predictive control (MPC) in Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) field	178
Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic	153
Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4	149
Review and comparison of HVAC operation guidelines in different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	145
Ventilation and air cleaning to limit aerosol particle concentrations in a gym during the COVID-19 pandemic	122
Occupancy-based HVAC control systems in buildings: A state-of-the-art review	121
Sustainable material choice for construction projects: A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment framework based on BIM and Fuzzy-AHP	117
CNN-LSTM architecture for predictive indoor temperature modeling	115
Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment	115
Contribution of urban functional zones to the spatial distribution of urban thermal environment	111
Green finance gap in green buildings: A scoping review and future research needs	110
Deep learning to replace, improve, or aid CFD analysis in built environment applications: A review	106
How indoor environmental quality affects occupants’ cognitive functions: A systematic review	99
The effects of 2D and 3D building morphology on urban environments: A multi-scale analysis in the Beijing metropolitan region	98
Impacts of green roofs on water, temperature, and air quality: A bibliometric review	97
Learning-based CO2 concentration prediction: Application to indoor air quality control using demand-controlled ventilation	97
The effectiveness of cool and green roofs in mitigating urban heat island and improving human thermal comfort	97
Life cycle assessment in the building design process – A systematic literature review	95
Plug-Mate: An IoT-based occupancy-driven plug load management system in smart buildings	94
Heritage values of ancient vernacular residences in traditional villages in Western Hunan, China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors	94
Modelling the relationship between Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation barriers, usage and awareness on building project lifecycle	92
Energy efficiency and carbon emission in high-rise buildings: A review (2005-2020)	92
Review of visualising LCA results in the design process of buildings	91
Study on an adaptive thermal comfort model with K-nearest-neighbors (KNN) algorithm	90

Assessing the impacts of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature, urban heat island and carbon emission in Penang city, Malaysia	89
A systematic review of personal thermal comfort models	87
The role and contribution of green buildings on sustainable development goals	87
Data collection methods for studying pedestrian behaviour: A systematic review	86
A systematic approach to estimating the effectiveness of multi-scale IAQ strategies for reducing the risk of airborne infection of SARS-CoV-2	86
Multi-objective optimization of passive energy efficiency measures for net-zero energy building in Morocco	85
Performance assessment of low-cost environmental monitors and single sensors under variable indoor air quality and thermal conditions	85
Quantifying 3D building form effects on urban land surface temperature and modeling seasonal correlation patterns	84
Investigation of indoor environment quality and factors affecting human comfort: A critical review	83
Ventilation procedures to minimize the airborne transmission of viruses in classrooms	81
Insufficient ventilation led to a probable long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on two buses	81
Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review	80
A review of different ventilation modes on thermal comfort, air quality and virus spread control	80
The effect of occupant distribution on energy consumption and COVID-19 infection in buildings: A case study of university building	79
Sugarcane bagasse waste fibers as novel thermal insulation and sound-absorbing materials for application in sustainable buildings	79
Embodied energy and carbon emissions of building materials in China	78
Numerical Study of Three Ventilation Strategies in a prefabricated COVID-19 inpatient ward	77
The influencing factors of China's green building development: An analysis using RBF-WINGS method	76
COVID-19: Reduction of airborne transmission needs paradigm shift in ventilation	76
Ten questions concerning active noise control in the built environment	76
An explainable one-dimensional convolutional neural networks based fault diagnosis method for building heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems	75
A comprehensive review on the spray cooling system employed to improve the summer thermal environment: Application efficiency, impact factors, and performance improvement	73
Chiller fault detection and diagnosis with anomaly detective generative adversarial network	72
Thermal comfort modeling when personalized comfort systems are in use: Comparison of sensing and learning methods	72
Studying spatial-temporal changes and relationship of land cover and surface Urban Heat Island derived through remote sensing in Yerevan, Armenia	72
Large-eddy simulation of flow around an isolated building: A step-by-step analysis of influencing factors on turbulent statistics	72
Indoor Air Quality associations with sick building syndrome: An application of decision tree technology	72
Moving to a green building: Indoor environment quality, thermal comfort and health	71
Dilution-based evaluation of airborne infection risk - Thorough expansion of Wells-Riley model	71
Occupancy prediction using deep learning approaches across multiple space types: A minimum sensing strategy	71
Modelling uncertainty in the relative risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by airborne aerosol transmission in well mixed indoor air	70
BIM- and IoT-based virtual reality tool for real-time thermal comfort assessment in building enclosures	70
Understanding the effects of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature based on local climate zones	69
Carbon value engineering: A framework for integrating embodied carbon and cost reduction strategies in building design	69
Psychological and physiological effects of a green wall on occupants: A cross-over study in virtual reality	68
Vegetation cover and plant-trait effects on outdoor thermal comfort in a tropical city	68
Comparison of hexahedral, tetrahedral and polyhedral cells for reproducing the wind field around an isolated building by LES	68
Parametric optimization of daylight, thermal and energy performance of middle school classrooms, case of hot and dry regions	68
Applying blockchain technology for building energy performance measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and the carbon credit market: A review of the literature	67
Green roofs and green walls layouts for improved urban air quality by mitigating particulate matter	67
Predicting the impacts of land use/land cover changes on seasonal urban thermal characteristics using machine learning algorithms	67
Investigation of potential aerosol transmission and infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 through central ventilation systems	67
Crowding has consequences: Prevention and management of COVID-19 in informal urban settlements	67
Operational carbon transition in the megalopolises’ commercial buildings	66
Impact of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature and carbon emission in a fastest-growing city, Cumilla, Bangladesh	66
Data acquisition for urban building energy modeling: A review	66
A hybrid deep transfer learning strategy for thermal comfort prediction in buildings	64
Transfer learning based methodology for migration and application of fault detection and diagnosis between building chillers for improving energy efficiency	64
The influence of aspect ratios and solar heating on flow and ventilation in 2D street canyons by scaled outdoor experiments	64
Measuring the relationship between morphological spatial pattern of green space and urban heat island using machine learning methods	64

Urban green roofs promote metropolitan biodiversity: A comparative case study	64
Use of portable air purifiers in homes: Operating behaviour, effect on indoor PM2.5 and perceived indoor air quality	63
Ten questions concerning energy flexibility in buildings	63
Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation	62
Built environment and the metropolitan pandemic: Analysis of the COVID-19 spread in Hong Kong	62
Analysis of the urban heat island under different synoptic patterns using local climate zones	62
Single-sided natural ventilation in buildings: a critical literature review	61
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) for in-duct airborne bioaerosol disinfection: Review and analysis of design factors	61
Study on spatio-temporal changes and driving factors of carbon emissions at the building operation stage- A case study of China	61
Evaluating the thermal-radiative performance of ENVI-met model for green infrastructure typologies: Experience from a subtropical climate	61
Active ozone removal technologies for a safe indoor environment: A comprehensive review	60
The incentive mechanism and decision-making behavior in the green building supply market: A tripartite evolutionary game analysis	60
A multi-objective optimization approach for climate-adaptive building envelope design using parametric behavior maps	59
Combined effects of visual-acoustic-thermal comfort in campus open spaces: A pilot study in China's cold region	59
A review of the impact of the green landscape interventions on the urban microclimate of tropical areas	59
Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on roadside traffic-related air pollution in Shanghai, China	58
Critical success factors for green building promotion: A systematic review and meta-analysis	57
Multi-objective optimization (MOO) for high-rise residential buildings’ layout centered on daylight, visual, and outdoor thermal metrics in China	57
Experimental and numerical study on the transport of droplet aerosols generated by occupants in a fever clinic	57
Forecasting office indoor CO2 concentration using machine learning with a one-year dataset	57
Mitigating aerosol infection risk in school buildings: the role of natural ventilation, volume, occupancy and CO2 monitoring	56
A single-layer urban canopy model with transmissive radiation exchange between trees and street canyons	56
Research on outdoor thermal comfort of high-density urban center in severe cold area	56
Impacts of land use/ land cover types on interactions between urban heat island effects and heat waves	56
City Information Modelling as a support decision tool for planning and management of cities: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	56
Ventilation regimes of school classrooms against airborne transmission of infectious respiratory droplets: A review	56
A comparative study of gender differences in thermal comfort and environmental satisfaction in air-conditioned offices in Qatar, India, and Japan	55
Characteristics of indoor air quality in underground metro stations: A critical review	55
A knowledge-guided and data-driven method for building HVAC systems fault diagnosis	55
The impact of sun sail-shading strategy on the thermal comfort in school courtyards	54
Understanding seasonal contributions of urban morphology to thermal environment based on boosted regression tree approach	54
Occupant health in buildings: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the opinions of building professionals and implications on research	54
Wind tunnel measurement of three-dimensional turbulent flow structures around a building group: Impact of high-rise buildings on pedestrian wind environment	53
Thermal comfort in university classrooms: An experimental study in the tropics	53
CFD analysis of the impact of geometrical characteristics of building balconies on near-façade wind flow and surface pressure	53
Predicting human perception of the urban environment in a spatiotemporal urban setting using locally acquired street view images and audio clips	53
A new method to improve indoor environment: Combining the living wall with air-conditioning	52
Relationships between indoor environmental quality and environmental factors in university classrooms	52
Impact of urbanization on land surface temperature and surface urban heat Island using optical remote sensing data: A case study of Jeju Island, Republic of Korea	52
Multi-performance optimization of static shading devices for glare, daylight, view and energy consideration	52
The impact of indoor environment quality (IEQ) on school children's overall comfort in the UK; a regression approach	52
Numerical investigations of Re-independence and influence of wall heating on flow characteristics and ventilation in full-scale 2D street canyons	52
Estimating the impact of indoor relative humidity on SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission risk using a new modification of the Wells-Riley model	52
Study on distributions of airflow velocity and convective heat transfer coefficient characterizing duct ventilation in a construction tunnel	51
Energy performance of phase change materials integrated into brick masonry walls for cooling load management in residential buildings	51
The impacts of building characteristics, social psychological and cultural factors on indoor environment quality productivity belief	51
The physical office workplace as a resource for mental health – A systematic scoping review	51
Behavior of cough droplets emitted from Covid-19 patient in hospital isolation room with different ventilation configurations	51
A two-stage multi-objective optimization method for envelope and energy generation systems of primary and secondary school teaching buildings in China	51
Estimating carbon emissions in urban functional zones using multi-source data: A case study in Beijing	51
Accelerated environmental performance-driven urban design with generative adversarial network	50
Impact of climate change on energy saving potentials of natural ventilation and ceiling fans in mixed-mode buildings	50
The effect of a mobile HEPA filter system on ‘infectious’ aerosols, sound and air velocity in the SenseLab	50
Predictive modelling and optimization of HVAC systems using neural network and particle swarm optimization algorithm	50
The influence of perceived aesthetic and acoustic quality on outdoor thermal comfort in urban environment	50
A field investigation on adaptive thermal comfort in school buildings in the temperate climatic region of Nepal	50
Generative Adversarial Networks in the built environment: A comprehensive review of the application of GANs across data types and scales	50
A systematic review of GIS-based local climate zone mapping studies	50
Natural ventilation in classrooms for healthy schools in the COVID era in Mediterranean climate	50
Mapping the barriers to circular economy adoption in the construction industry: A systematic review, Pareto analysis, and mitigation strategy map	50
Optimization and prediction in the early design stage of office buildings using genetic and XGBoost algorithms	49
Overall environmental assessment in urban parks: Modelling audio-visual interaction with a structural equation model based on soundscape and landscape indices	49
A review of multi-scale modelling, assessment, and improvement methods of the urban thermal and wind environment	49
Transfer learning for thermal comfort prediction in multiple cities	49
Multi-objective optimization of the multi-story residential building with passive design strategy in South Korea	49
Implementation of model predictive control in a large-sized, low-energy office building	49
Personal thermal comfort models using digital twins: Preference prediction with BIM-extracted spatial–temporal proximity data from Build2Vec	49
Comparative sustainability evaluation of two engineered wood-based construction materials: Life cycle analysis of CLT versus GLT	49
Coordinated demand-controlled ventilation strategy for energy-efficient operation in multi-zone cleanroom air-conditioning systems	49
High temperature impairs cognitive performance during a moderate intensity activity	49
A new method for calculating the embodied carbon emissions from buildings in schematic design: Taking “building element” as basic unit	48
Influencing factors in the simulation of airflow and particle transportation in aircraft cabins by CFD	48
How to define (net) zero greenhouse gas emissions buildings: The results of an international survey as part of IEA EBC annex 72	48
Transmission risk of infectious droplets in physical spreading process at different times: A review	48
Prioritizing barriers and developing mitigation strategies toward net-zero carbon building sector	47
Thermal resilient buildings: How to be quantified? A novel benchmarking framework and labelling metric	47
A simulation-based method to predict the life cycle energy performance of residential buildings in different climate zones of China	47
Urban microclimate and its impact on built environment – A review	47
Ventilation strategies and design impacts on indoor airborne transmission: A review	47
UAV-assisted task offloading for IoT in smart buildings and environment via deep reinforcement learning	47

Towards optimal HVAC control in non-stationary building environments combining active change detection and deep reinforcement learning	47
Ultrafine particles: A review about their health effects, presence, generation, and measurement in indoor environments	47
Thermal storage performance of building envelopes for nearly-zero energy buildings during cooling season in Western China: An experimental study	47
A critical review on BIM and LCA integration using the ISO 14040 framework	47
Life cycle assessment of mass timber construction: A review	46
Fire risk assessment for building operation and maintenance based on BIM technology	46
Autoencoder-driven fault detection and diagnosis in building automation systems: Residual-based and latent space-based approaches	46
Occupant-centered real-time control of indoor temperature using deep learning algorithms	46
Impact of double skin facade constructional features on heat transfer and fluid dynamic behaviour	46
The roles of surrounding 2D/3D landscapes in park cooling effect: Analysis from extreme hot and normal weather perspectives	46
Human comfort modelling for elderly people by infrared thermography: Evaluating the thermoregulation system responses in an indoor environment during winter	45
Modeling pedestrian emotion in high-density cities using visual exposure and machine learning: Tracking real-time physiology and psychology in Hong Kong	45
Respiratory infection risk-based ventilation design method	45
Air quality forecasting with hybrid LSTM and extended stationary wavelet transform	45
Hygric properties of porous building materials (VI): A round robin campaign	45
Estimating dynamic climate change effects of material use in buildings—Timing, uncertainty, and emission sources	45
Evaluation of individual thermal sensation at raised indoor temperatures based on skin temperature	45
Analysis of Spatio-temporal patterns and related factors of thermal comfort in subtropical coastal cities based on local climate zones	45
Evaluation of the cooling effect provided by a green façade as nature-based system for buildings	45
A comprehensive analysis towards benchmarking of life cycle assessment of buildings based on systematic review	45
Occupant satisfaction with the indoor environment in seven commercial buildings in Singapore	44
Building life-span prediction for life cycle assessment and life cycle cost using machine learning: A big data approach	44
Cross-ventilation of a generic building with various configurations of external and internal openings	44
Comparative analysis on predictability of natural ventilation rate based on machine learning algorithms	44
A machine learning and deep learning based approach to predict the thermal performance of phase change material integrated building envelope	44
Effects of short-term physiological and psychological adaptation on summer thermal comfort of outdoor exercising people in China	44
COVID-19 and urban spaces: A new integrated CFD approach for public health opportunities	44
Effect of heat mitigation strategies on thermal environment, thermal comfort, and walkability: A case study in Hong Kong	44
The impact of tourism on the conservation and IAQ of cultural heritage: The case of the Monastery of Jerónimos (Portugal)	44
Infection probability under different air distribution patterns	44
Research on environmental comfort and cognitive performance based on EEG+VR+LEC evaluation method in underground space	44
The use of Taguchi, ANOVA, and GRA methods to optimize CFD analyses of ventilation performance in buildings	44
Indoor humidity of dwellings and association with building characteristics, behaviors and health in a northern climate	44
Correlation between cooling effect of green space and surrounding urban spatial form: Evidence from 36 urban green spaces	44
Review on pollutant dispersion in urban areas-part A: Effects of mechanical factors and urban morphology	44
Design and testing of a low-cost sensor and sampling platform for indoor air quality	43
Investigating contextual influences on urban soundscape evaluations with structural equation modeling	43
Effect of individually controlled personalized ventilation on cross-contamination due to respiratory activities	43
Dynamic thermal perception: A review and agenda for future experimental research	43
Simulation-based framework to evaluate resistivity of cooling strategies in buildings against overheating impact of climate change	43
Towards a performance-based approach for multifunctional green roofs: An interdisciplinary review	43
Inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in the built environment: A study of architectural design practice	43
Numerical comparison of the efficiency of mixing ventilation and impinging jet ventilation for exhaled particle removal in a model intensive care unit	43
Quality of crowdsourced geospatial building information: A global assessment of OpenStreetMap attributes	42
Analysis of human electroencephalogram features in different indoor environments	42
Evaluation of simplified building energy models for urban-scale energy analysis of buildings	42
Review of vision-based occupant information sensing systems for occupant-centric control	42
Virtual reality for assessing visual quality and lighting perception: A systematic review	42
LCA and scenario analysis of a Norwegian net-zero GHG emission neighbourhood: The importance of mobility and surplus energy from PV technologies	42
Modelling building energy use at urban scale: A review on their account for the urban environment	42
ED-DQN: An event-driven deep reinforcement learning control method for multi-zone residential buildings	41
Impacts of COVID-19 on residential building energy use and performance	41
Investigation of outdoor thermal comfort prediction models in South China: A case study in Guangzhou	41
Integrated impacts of building height and upstream building on pedestrian comfort around ideal lift-up buildings in a weak wind environment	41
Experimental study and theoretical discussion of dynamic outdoor thermal comfort in walking spaces: Effect of short-term thermal history	41
Performance assessment of air curtain range hood using contaminant removal efficiency: An experimental and numerical study	41
Seasonally disparate responses of surface thermal environment to 2D/3D urban morphology	41
Condensation-free radiant cooling with double-skin infrared-transparent membranes	41
A new framework for assessing the environmental impacts of circular economy friendly soil waste-based geopolymer cements	41
Comparison of models for predicting winter individual thermal comfort based on machine learning algorithms	41
Utilizing thermal comfort and walking facilities to propose a comfort walkability index (CWI) at the neighbourhood level	41
A field study on adaptive thermal comfort in Spanish primary classrooms during summer season	41
The effects of vertical farming on indoor carbon dioxide concentration and fresh air energy consumption in office buildings	41
Passenger overall comfort in high-speed railway environments based on EEG: Assessment and degradation mechanism	41
Thermal comfort performance and energy-efficiency evaluation of six personal heating/cooling devices	41
Separate and combined impacts of building and tree on urban thermal environment from two- and three-dimensional perspectives	40
Impact of reflective materials on urban canyon albedo, outdoor and indoor microclimates	40
Global review of circular economy and life cycle thinking in building Demolition Waste Management: A way ahead for India	40
Cross-modal effects of thermal and visual conditions on outdoor thermal and visual comfort perception	40
Assessing the effectiveness of green roofs in enhancing the energy and indoor comfort resilience of urban buildings to climate change: Methodology proposal and application	40
Adaptive behavior and different thermal experiences of real people: A Bayesian neural network approach to thermal preference prediction and classification	40
Studies on urban park cooling effects and their driving factors in China: Considering 276 cities under different climate zones	40
Information modelling for urban building energy simulation—A taxonomic review	40
Investigation of HVAC operation strategies for office buildings during COVID-19 pandemic	40
A novel methodology for human thermal comfort decoding via physiological signals measurement and analysis	39
Exposure of staff to aerosols and bioaerosols in a dental office	39
Regional inequality in the carbon emission intensity of public buildings in China	39
Is anyone home? A critical review of occupant-centric smart HVAC controls implementations in residential buildings	39
Future “local climate zone” spatial change simulation in Greater Bay Area under the shared socioeconomic pathways and ecological control line	39
Full-scale experimental and numerical study of bioaerosol characteristics against cross-infection in a two-bed hospital ward	39
Effect of titanium dioxide properties and support material on photocatalytic oxidation of indoor air pollutants	39
Allocation of carbon emission quotas for China's provincial public buildings based on principles of equity and efficiency	39
Impact of green walls on ventilation and heat removal from street canyons: Coupling of thermal and aerodynamic resistance	39
Carbon emission reduction decisions in construction supply chain based on differential game with government subsidies	38
Improved machine-learning mapping of local climate zones in metropolitan areas using composite Earth observation data in Google Earth Engine	38
3D building configuration as the driver of diurnal and nocturnal land surface temperatures: Application in Beijing's old city	38
A review of the effects of architectural stimuli on human psychology and physiology	38
Self-cleaning durability assessment of TiO2/SiO2 photocatalysts coated concrete: Effect of indoor and outdoor conditions on the photocatalytic activity	38
Perceptions of human thermal comfort in an urban tourism destination – A case study of Porto (Portugal)	38
Seasonal influence of leaf area index (LAI) on the energy performance of a green facade	38
Ventilation strategies to reduce airborne transmission of viruses in classrooms: A systematic review of scientific literature	38
A systematic review of the integration of building information modeling into life cycle assessment	38
Measurement and prediction of work engagement under different indoor lighting conditions using physiological sensing	38
Unveiling the actual progress of Digital Building Permit: Getting awareness through a critical state of the art review	38
Using recurrent neural networks for localized weather prediction with combined use of public airport data and on-site measurements	38