Building and Environment

Article	Citations
Probable airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a poorly ventilated restaurant	342
Short-range airborne route dominates exposure of respiratory infection during close contact	253
State of the art review on model predictive control (MPC) in Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) field	145
Review and comparison of HVAC operation guidelines in different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	136
Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic	132
Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour	127
Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation	127
Modeling occupant behavior in buildings	123
The impact of a view from a window on thermal comfort, emotion, and cognitive performance	117
Ventilation and air cleaning to limit aerosol particle concentrations in a gym during the COVID-19 pandemic	111
Generative adversarial network for fault detection diagnosis of chillers	109
Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4	109
Ten questions concerning well-being in the built environment	106
A systematic review of occupant behavior in building energy policy	106
CFD simulations of wind flow and mean surface pressure for buildings with balconies: Comparison of RANS and LES	104
Occupancy-based HVAC control systems in buildings: A state-of-the-art review	100
Air purifiers: A supplementary measure to remove airborne SARS-CoV-2	96
Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings: Response surface analysis	96
Mitigating intensity of urban heat island by better understanding on urban morphology and anthropogenic heat dispersion	95
Sustainable material choice for construction projects: A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment framework based on BIM and Fuzzy-AHP	95
The relationships between classroom air quality and children’s performance in school	94
CNN-LSTM architecture for predictive indoor temperature modeling	93
The cooling efficiency of variable greenery coverage ratios in different urban densities: A study in a subtropical climate	87
Contribution of urban functional zones to the spatial distribution of urban thermal environment	84
Learning-based CO2 concentration prediction: Application to indoor air quality control using demand-controlled ventilation	83

Green finance gap in green buildings: A scoping review and future research needs	83
Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment	81
Plug-Mate: An IoT-based occupancy-driven plug load management system in smart buildings	81
Deep learning to replace, improve, or aid CFD analysis in built environment applications: A review	80
Implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment during design stages in Building Information Modelling: From systematic literature review to a methodological approach	79
A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort	79
A systematic approach to estimating the effectiveness of multi-scale IAQ strategies for reducing the risk of airborne infection of SARS-CoV-2	77
Impacts of green roofs on water, temperature, and air quality: A bibliometric review	77
Life cycle assessment in the building design process – A systematic literature review	77
Modelling the relationship between Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation barriers, usage and awareness on building project lifecycle	76
The dust diffusion modeling and determination of optimal airflow rate for removing the dust generated during mine tunneling	76
Measurement, modeling, and optimization of sound absorption performance of Kenaf fibers for building applications	76
The effects of 2D and 3D building morphology on urban environments: A multi-scale analysis in the Beijing metropolitan region	76
The effect of occupant distribution on energy consumption and COVID-19 infection in buildings: A case study of university building	74
How indoor environmental quality affects occupants’ cognitive functions: A systematic review	74
What drives our behaviors in buildings? A review on occupant interactions with building systems from the lens of behavioral theories	74
COVID-19: Reduction of airborne transmission needs paradigm shift in ventilation	73
Numerical Study of Three Ventilation Strategies in a prefabricated COVID-19 inpatient ward	73
Ventilation procedures to minimize the airborne transmission of viruses in classrooms	73
Review of visualising LCA results in the design process of buildings	73
Study on an adaptive thermal comfort model with K-nearest-neighbors (KNN) algorithm	72
Indoor soundscape assessment: A principal components model of acoustic perception in residential buildings	72
The effectiveness of cool and green roofs in mitigating urban heat island and improving human thermal comfort	71
A systematic review of personal thermal comfort models	70
Effect of tree cover and tree species on microclimate and pedestrian comfort in a residential district in Iran	70
Insufficient ventilation led to a probable long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on two buses	70
Multi-objective optimization of passive energy efficiency measures for net-zero energy building in Morocco	69
Assessing the impacts of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature, urban heat island and carbon emission in Penang city, Malaysia	69
Heritage values of ancient vernacular residences in traditional villages in Western Hunan, China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors	68
A comprehensive review of approaches to building occupancy detection	68
Evolutionary game theory analysis for understanding the decision-making mechanisms of governments and developers on green building incentives	68
Multi-objective optimization for energy consumption, daylighting and thermal comfort performance of rural tourism buildings in north China	67
Data collection methods for studying pedestrian behaviour: A systematic review	65
Energy efficiency and carbon emission in high-rise buildings: A review (2005-2020)	65
Vegetation in different street orientations of aspect ratio (H/W 1:1) to mitigate UHI and reduce buildings’ energy in arid climate	65
Performance analysis of portable HEPA filters and temporary plastic anterooms on the spread of surrogate coronavirus	65
Performance assessment of low-cost environmental monitors and single sensors under variable indoor air quality and thermal conditions	64
Sugarcane bagasse waste fibers as novel thermal insulation and sound-absorbing materials for application in sustainable buildings	63
Chiller fault detection and diagnosis with anomaly detective generative adversarial network	63
Investigation of indoor environment quality and factors affecting human comfort: A critical review	63
Ten questions concerning active noise control in the built environment	62
Reducing the exposure risk in hospital wards by applying stratum ventilation system	62
A comprehensive review on the spray cooling system employed to improve the summer thermal environment: Application efficiency, impact factors, and performance improvement	62
Validation of dynamic hygrothermal simulation models for historical buildings: State of the art, research challenges and recommendations	62
The influencing factors of China's green building development: An analysis using RBF-WINGS method	62
Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review	61
Studying spatial-temporal changes and relationship of land cover and surface Urban Heat Island derived through remote sensing in Yerevan, Armenia	61
Embodied energy and carbon emissions of building materials in China	61
Modelling uncertainty in the relative risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by airborne aerosol transmission in well mixed indoor air	61
Outdoor thermal comfort assessment: A review on thermal comfort research in Australia	60

Isothermal and non-isothermal flow in street canyons: A review from theoretical, experimental and numerical perspectives	60
Thermal comfort modeling when personalized comfort systems are in use: Comparison of sensing and learning methods	60
BIM- and IoT-based virtual reality tool for real-time thermal comfort assessment in building enclosures	60
Indoor Air Quality associations with sick building syndrome: An application of decision tree technology	60
Investigation of potential aerosol transmission and infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 through central ventilation systems	60
Can indoor sports centers be allowed to re-open during the COVID-19 pandemic based on a certificate of equivalence?	60
An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards	59
Quantifying 3D building form effects on urban land surface temperature and modeling seasonal correlation patterns	59
Crowding has consequences: Prevention and management of COVID-19 in informal urban settlements	59
Anomaly detection based on machine learning in IoT-based vertical plant wall for indoor climate control	59
Carbon value engineering: A framework for integrating embodied carbon and cost reduction strategies in building design	59
Evaluating the disparities in urban green space provision in communities with diverse built environments: The case of a rapidly urbanizing Chinese city	58
Assessing occupants’ personal attributes in relation to human perception of environmental comfort: Measurement procedure and data analysis	58
An explainable one-dimensional convolutional neural networks based fault diagnosis method for building heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems	58
Dilution-based evaluation of airborne infection risk - Thorough expansion of Wells-Riley model	57
Operational carbon transition in the megalopolises’ commercial buildings	57
Parametric optimization of daylight, thermal and energy performance of middle school classrooms, case of hot and dry regions	57
Facial mask: A necessity to beat COVID-19	57
Use of portable air purifiers in homes: Operating behaviour, effect on indoor PM2.5 and perceived indoor air quality	56
Moving to a green building: Indoor environment quality, thermal comfort and health	56
Applying blockchain technology for building energy performance measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and the carbon credit market: A review of the literature	56
New design for solar chimney with integrated windcatcher for space cooling and ventilation	55
Occupancy prediction using deep learning approaches across multiple space types: A minimum sensing strategy	55
Cross-cultural differences in thermal comfort in campus open spaces: A longitudinal field survey in China's cold region	55
Uncertainty of building elements’ service lives in building LCA & LCC: What matters?	54
Effects of personalized ventilation interventions on airborne infection risk and transmission between occupants	54
Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on roadside traffic-related air pollution in Shanghai, China	54
A psychophysiological effect of indoor thermal condition on college students’ learning performance through EEG measurement	54
Triple bottom line sustainability assessment of window-to-wall ratio in US office buildings	54
A review of different ventilation modes on thermal comfort, air quality and virus spread control	53
Urban green roofs promote metropolitan biodiversity: A comparative case study	53
Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation	53
Analysis of the urban heat island under different synoptic patterns using local climate zones	52
Large-eddy simulation of flow around an isolated building: A step-by-step analysis of influencing factors on turbulent statistics	52
Active ozone removal technologies for a safe indoor environment: A comprehensive review	52
Green roofs and green walls layouts for improved urban air quality by mitigating particulate matter	52
The role and contribution of green buildings on sustainable development goals	52
Single-sided natural ventilation in buildings: a critical literature review	52
Impact of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature and carbon emission in a fastest-growing city, Cumilla, Bangladesh	52
Transfer learning based methodology for migration and application of fault detection and diagnosis between building chillers for improving energy efficiency	51
Optimal design of building environment with hybrid genetic algorithm, artificial neural network, multivariate regression analysis and fuzzy logic controller	51
The influence of aspect ratios and solar heating on flow and ventilation in 2D street canyons by scaled outdoor experiments	51
A single-layer urban canopy model with transmissive radiation exchange between trees and street canyons	50
Mitigating aerosol infection risk in school buildings: the role of natural ventilation, volume, occupancy and CO2 monitoring	50
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) for in-duct airborne bioaerosol disinfection: Review and analysis of design factors	50
Built environment and the metropolitan pandemic: Analysis of the COVID-19 spread in Hong Kong	50
Comparison of hexahedral, tetrahedral and polyhedral cells for reproducing the wind field around an isolated building by LES	50
Estimating and minimizing embodied carbon of prefabricated high-rise residential buildings considering parameter, scenario and model uncertainties	50
Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey	49
Experimental and numerical study on the transport of droplet aerosols generated by occupants in a fever clinic	49
Human thermal comfort in passenger vehicles using an organic phase change material– an experimental investigation, neural network modelling, and optimization	49
A hybrid deep transfer learning strategy for thermal comfort prediction in buildings	49
Vegetation cover and plant-trait effects on outdoor thermal comfort in a tropical city	48
Forecasting office indoor CO2 concentration using machine learning with a one-year dataset	48
Psychological and physiological effects of a green wall on occupants: A cross-over study in virtual reality	48
Indoor air quality (IAQ) in naturally-ventilated primary schools in the UK: Occupant-related factors	48
Automatic detection of building typology using deep learning methods on street level images	48
A field investigation on adaptive thermal comfort in school buildings in the temperate climatic region of Nepal	48
People's subjective and physiological responses to the combined thermal-acoustic environments	47
Predicting the impacts of land use/land cover changes on seasonal urban thermal characteristics using machine learning algorithms	47
A multi-objective optimization approach for climate-adaptive building envelope design using parametric behavior maps	47
UAV-assisted task offloading for IoT in smart buildings and environment via deep reinforcement learning	46
Occupant health in buildings: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the opinions of building professionals and implications on research	46
Critical success factors for green building promotion: A systematic review and meta-analysis	46
Assessment of the effect of living wall systems on the improvement of the urban heat island phenomenon	46
Understanding the effects of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature based on local climate zones	46
IEQ-Compass – A tool for holistic evaluation of potential indoor environmental quality	46
Evaluating the thermal-radiative performance of ENVI-met model for green infrastructure typologies: Experience from a subtropical climate	46
Study on spatio-temporal changes and driving factors of carbon emissions at the building operation stage- A case study of China	46
Bedroom ventilation: Review of existing evidence and current standards	46
Determining the optimal window size of office buildings considering the workers' task performance and the building's energy consumption	46
Ten questions concerning energy flexibility in buildings	46
The effect of a mobile HEPA filter system on ‘infectious’ aerosols, sound and air velocity in the SenseLab	46
Thermal comfort in university classrooms: An experimental study in the tropics	45
Research on outdoor thermal comfort of high-density urban center in severe cold area	45
The influence of acclimatization, age and gender-related differences on thermal perception in university buildings: Case studies in Scotland and England	45
Impacts of land use/ land cover types on interactions between urban heat island effects and heat waves	45
Data acquisition for urban building energy modeling: A review	45
Research on work efficiency and light comfort based on EEG evaluation method	45
The impact of sun sail-shading strategy on the thermal comfort in school courtyards	45

A review on cooling performance enhancement for phase change materials integrated systems—flexible design and smart control with machine learning applications	45
City Information Modelling as a support decision tool for planning and management of cities: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	45
Impact of urban morphology on outdoor air temperature and microclimate optimization strategy base on Pareto optimality in Northeast China	44
A framework for Air Quality Management Zones - Useful GIS-based tool for urban planning: Case studies in Antwerp and Gdańsk	44
A comparative study of gender differences in thermal comfort and environmental satisfaction in air-conditioned offices in Qatar, India, and Japan	44
A new method to improve indoor environment: Combining the living wall with air-conditioning	44
CFD analysis of the impact of geometrical characteristics of building balconies on near-façade wind flow and surface pressure	44
A knowledge-guided and data-driven method for building HVAC systems fault diagnosis	44
Numerical investigations of Re-independence and influence of wall heating on flow characteristics and ventilation in full-scale 2D street canyons	44
Multi-objective optimization (MOO) for high-rise residential buildings’ layout centered on daylight, visual, and outdoor thermal metrics in China	44
Evaluating the impact of viewing location on view perception using a virtual environment	43
Association of residential energy efficiency retrofits with indoor environmental quality, comfort, and health: A review of empirical data	43
Transfer learning for thermal comfort prediction in multiple cities	43
Estimating the impact of indoor relative humidity on SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission risk using a new modification of the Wells-Riley model	43
Wind tunnel measurement of three-dimensional turbulent flow structures around a building group: Impact of high-rise buildings on pedestrian wind environment	43
Multi-objective optimization of HVAC control in museum environment for artwork preservation, visitors’ thermal comfort and energy efficiency	43
A critical review on BIM and LCA integration using the ISO 14040 framework	42
Air quality and thermal comfort analysis of kitchen environment with CFD simulation and experimental calibration	42
Multi-objective optimization of the multi-story residential building with passive design strategy in South Korea	42
Characteristics of indoor air quality in underground metro stations: A critical review	42
Integration of the WUDAPT, WRF, and ENVI-met models to simulate extreme daytime temperature mitigation strategies in San Jose, California	42
The impact of indoor environment quality (IEQ) on school children's overall comfort in the UK; a regression approach	42
Energy performance of phase change materials integrated into brick masonry walls for cooling load management in residential buildings	42
Mixed method review for integrating building information modeling and life-cycle assessments	42
Optimization of dust removal performance of ventilation system in tunnel constructed using shield tunneling machine	42
Effect of the appropriateness of sound environment on urban soundscape assessment	42
A review of automatic control strategies based on simulations for adaptive facades	42
A review of the impact of the green landscape interventions on the urban microclimate of tropical areas	41
The incentive mechanism and decision-making behavior in the green building supply market: A tripartite evolutionary game analysis	41
Ventilation regimes of school classrooms against airborne transmission of infectious respiratory droplets: A review	41
The impacts of building characteristics, social psychological and cultural factors on indoor environment quality productivity belief	41
A review on evaluation metrics of thermal performance in data centers	41
Indoor and outdoor airborne bacterial and fungal air quality in kindergartens: Seasonal distribution, genera, levels, and factors influencing their concentration	41
Review of current trends in agent-based modeling of building occupants for energy and indoor-environmental performance analysis	41
Comparative sustainability evaluation of two engineered wood-based construction materials: Life cycle analysis of CLT versus GLT	41
Natural ventilation in classrooms for healthy schools in the COVID era in Mediterranean climate	41
Transmission risk of infectious droplets in physical spreading process at different times: A review	41
Behavior of cough droplets emitted from Covid-19 patient in hospital isolation room with different ventilation configurations	41
Study on distributions of airflow velocity and convective heat transfer coefficient characterizing duct ventilation in a construction tunnel	41
Coordinated demand-controlled ventilation strategy for energy-efficient operation in multi-zone cleanroom air-conditioning systems	41
A two-stage multi-objective optimization method for envelope and energy generation systems of primary and secondary school teaching buildings in China	40
Impact of climate change on energy saving potentials of natural ventilation and ceiling fans in mixed-mode buildings	40
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	40
Segmenting areas of potential contamination for adaptive robotic disinfection in built environments	40
Evaluation of the effect of landscape distance seen in window views on visual satisfaction	40
Influencing factors in the simulation of airflow and particle transportation in aircraft cabins by CFD	40
Source characterization and risk assessment of occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a barbecue restaurant	40
Optimization study of return vent height for an impinging jet ventilation system with exhaust/return-split configuration by TOPSIS method	40
How to define (net) zero greenhouse gas emissions buildings: The results of an international survey as part of IEA EBC annex 72	40
A multiscale analysis of the effect of urban expansion on PM2.5 concentrations in China: Evidence from multisource remote sensing and statistical data	40
A PMV-based HVAC control strategy for office rooms subjected to solar radiation	40
Modification of sweat evaporative heat loss in the PMV/PPD model to improve thermal comfort prediction in warm climates	40
Relationships between indoor environmental quality and environmental factors in university classrooms	40
Fire risk assessment for building operation and maintenance based on BIM technology	40
Human comfort modelling for elderly people by infrared thermography: Evaluating the thermoregulation system responses in an indoor environment during winter	40
Combined effects of visual-acoustic-thermal comfort in campus open spaces: A pilot study in China's cold region	40
A new method for calculating the embodied carbon emissions from buildings in schematic design: Taking “building element” as basic unit	40
Improving indoor air quality and thermal comfort in residential kitchens with a new ventilation system	40
Respiratory infection risk-based ventilation design method	40
Effects of frontal area density on outdoor thermal comfort and air quality	40
High temperature impairs cognitive performance during a moderate intensity activity	40
Evaluation of individual thermal sensation at raised indoor temperatures based on skin temperature	39
Multi-performance optimization of static shading devices for glare, daylight, view and energy consideration	39
Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home	39
Ventilation rates in naturally ventilated primary schools in the UK; Contextual, Occupant and Building-related (COB) factors	39
Numerical comparison of the efficiency of mixing ventilation and impinging jet ventilation for exhaled particle removal in a model intensive care unit	39
A systematic review of GIS-based local climate zone mapping studies	39
Impact of double skin facade constructional features on heat transfer and fluid dynamic behaviour	39
Evaluation of cough-jet effects on the transport characteristics of respiratory-induced contaminants in airline passengers’ local environments	39
Hygric properties of porous building materials (VI): A round robin campaign	39
An assessment of the impact of natural ventilation strategies and window opening patterns in office buildings in the mediterranean basin	38
Separate and combined impacts of building and tree on urban thermal environment from two- and three-dimensional perspectives	38
Towards optimal HVAC control in non-stationary building environments combining active change detection and deep reinforcement learning	38
The influence of perceived aesthetic and acoustic quality on outdoor thermal comfort in urban environment	38
Implementation of model predictive control in a large-sized, low-energy office building	38
Mapping the barriers to circular economy adoption in the construction industry: A systematic review, Pareto analysis, and mitigation strategy map	38
Towards a performance-based approach for multifunctional green roofs: An interdisciplinary review	38
How correlated colour temperature manipulates human thermal perception and comfort	38
Experimental comparison of local direct heating to improve thermal comfort of workers	38
Overall environmental assessment in urban parks: Modelling audio-visual interaction with a structural equation model based on soundscape and landscape indices	38
Modelling building energy use at urban scale: A review on their account for the urban environment	38
Investigation of outdoor thermal comfort prediction models in South China: A case study in Guangzhou	38
Evaluation of the cooling effect provided by a green façade as nature-based system for buildings	38
A simulation-based method to predict the life cycle energy performance of residential buildings in different climate zones of China	38
Estimating carbon emissions in urban functional zones using multi-source data: A case study in Beijing	38
The impact of tourism on the conservation and IAQ of cultural heritage: The case of the Monastery of Jerónimos (Portugal)	38
Effects of short-term physiological and psychological adaptation on summer thermal comfort of outdoor exercising people in China	37
Indoor humidity of dwellings and association with building characteristics, behaviors and health in a northern climate	37
Estimating dynamic climate change effects of material use in buildings—Timing, uncertainty, and emission sources	37
Dynamic greenhouse gas life cycle inventory and impact profiles of wood used in Canadian buildings	37
Characterizing temporal and vertical distribution patterns of traffic-emitted pollutants near an elevated expressway in urban residential areas	37
Occupant satisfaction with the indoor environment in seven commercial buildings in Singapore	37
Effects of height-asymmetric street canyon configurations on outdoor air temperature and air quality	36
Impacts of COVID-19 on residential building energy use and performance	36
Personal thermal comfort models using digital twins: Preference prediction with BIM-extracted spatial–temporal proximity data from Build2Vec	36