Building and Environment

Article	Citations
Probable airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a poorly ventilated restaurant	350
Short-range airborne route dominates exposure of respiratory infection during close contact	257
State of the art review on model predictive control (MPC) in Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) field	150
Review and comparison of HVAC operation guidelines in different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	138
Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic	137
Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation	131
Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour	131
Modeling occupant behavior in buildings	126
The impact of a view from a window on thermal comfort, emotion, and cognitive performance	122
Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4	115
Ventilation and air cleaning to limit aerosol particle concentrations in a gym during the COVID-19 pandemic	113
Ten questions concerning well-being in the built environment	112
A systematic review of occupant behavior in building energy policy	109
Occupancy-based HVAC control systems in buildings: A state-of-the-art review	102
Mitigating intensity of urban heat island by better understanding on urban morphology and anthropogenic heat dispersion	100
Sustainable material choice for construction projects: A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment framework based on BIM and Fuzzy-AHP	99
CNN-LSTM architecture for predictive indoor temperature modeling	98
Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings: Response surface analysis	98
Air purifiers: A supplementary measure to remove airborne SARS-CoV-2	97
Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment	90
The cooling efficiency of variable greenery coverage ratios in different urban densities: A study in a subtropical climate	89
Green finance gap in green buildings: A scoping review and future research needs	88
Contribution of urban functional zones to the spatial distribution of urban thermal environment	87
Deep learning to replace, improve, or aid CFD analysis in built environment applications: A review	86
Learning-based CO2 concentration prediction: Application to indoor air quality control using demand-controlled ventilation	84

Plug-Mate: An IoT-based occupancy-driven plug load management system in smart buildings	83
Impacts of green roofs on water, temperature, and air quality: A bibliometric review	82
Implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment during design stages in Building Information Modelling: From systematic literature review to a methodological approach	82
Life cycle assessment in the building design process – A systematic literature review	80
The dust diffusion modeling and determination of optimal airflow rate for removing the dust generated during mine tunneling	79
A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort	79
The effects of 2D and 3D building morphology on urban environments: A multi-scale analysis in the Beijing metropolitan region	79
Study on an adaptive thermal comfort model with K-nearest-neighbors (KNN) algorithm	78
How indoor environmental quality affects occupants’ cognitive functions: A systematic review	78
Review of visualising LCA results in the design process of buildings	78
A systematic approach to estimating the effectiveness of multi-scale IAQ strategies for reducing the risk of airborne infection of SARS-CoV-2	78
What drives our behaviors in buildings? A review on occupant interactions with building systems from the lens of behavioral theories	77
Modelling the relationship between Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation barriers, usage and awareness on building project lifecycle	77
Measurement, modeling, and optimization of sound absorption performance of Kenaf fibers for building applications	76
The effectiveness of cool and green roofs in mitigating urban heat island and improving human thermal comfort	75
The effect of occupant distribution on energy consumption and COVID-19 infection in buildings: A case study of university building	75
Indoor soundscape assessment: A principal components model of acoustic perception in residential buildings	74
Assessing the impacts of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature, urban heat island and carbon emission in Penang city, Malaysia	74
Effect of tree cover and tree species on microclimate and pedestrian comfort in a residential district in Iran	74
Ventilation procedures to minimize the airborne transmission of viruses in classrooms	74
Numerical Study of Three Ventilation Strategies in a prefabricated COVID-19 inpatient ward	73
COVID-19: Reduction of airborne transmission needs paradigm shift in ventilation	73
A systematic review of personal thermal comfort models	72
Multi-objective optimization of passive energy efficiency measures for net-zero energy building in Morocco	72
Insufficient ventilation led to a probable long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on two buses	71
Evolutionary game theory analysis for understanding the decision-making mechanisms of governments and developers on green building incentives	71
Energy efficiency and carbon emission in high-rise buildings: A review (2005-2020)	70
Heritage values of ancient vernacular residences in traditional villages in Western Hunan, China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors	70
A comprehensive review of approaches to building occupancy detection	69
The influencing factors of China's green building development: An analysis using RBF-WINGS method	69
Multi-objective optimization for energy consumption, daylighting and thermal comfort performance of rural tourism buildings in north China	69
Data collection methods for studying pedestrian behaviour: A systematic review	68
Performance assessment of low-cost environmental monitors and single sensors under variable indoor air quality and thermal conditions	67
Investigation of indoor environment quality and factors affecting human comfort: A critical review	67
Embodied energy and carbon emissions of building materials in China	66
A comprehensive review on the spray cooling system employed to improve the summer thermal environment: Application efficiency, impact factors, and performance improvement	65
Sugarcane bagasse waste fibers as novel thermal insulation and sound-absorbing materials for application in sustainable buildings	65
Performance analysis of portable HEPA filters and temporary plastic anterooms on the spread of surrogate coronavirus	65
Chiller fault detection and diagnosis with anomaly detective generative adversarial network	64
Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review	64
Indoor Air Quality associations with sick building syndrome: An application of decision tree technology	64
Validation of dynamic hygrothermal simulation models for historical buildings: State of the art, research challenges and recommendations	64
Modelling uncertainty in the relative risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by airborne aerosol transmission in well mixed indoor air	64
Reducing the exposure risk in hospital wards by applying stratum ventilation system	63
Ten questions concerning active noise control in the built environment	63
Thermal comfort modeling when personalized comfort systems are in use: Comparison of sensing and learning methods	62
Studying spatial-temporal changes and relationship of land cover and surface Urban Heat Island derived through remote sensing in Yerevan, Armenia	62
Can indoor sports centers be allowed to re-open during the COVID-19 pandemic based on a certificate of equivalence?	62
Isothermal and non-isothermal flow in street canyons: A review from theoretical, experimental and numerical perspectives	62
An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards	62

An explainable one-dimensional convolutional neural networks based fault diagnosis method for building heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems	62
Outdoor thermal comfort assessment: A review on thermal comfort research in Australia	61
Quantifying 3D building form effects on urban land surface temperature and modeling seasonal correlation patterns	61
Parametric optimization of daylight, thermal and energy performance of middle school classrooms, case of hot and dry regions	61
BIM- and IoT-based virtual reality tool for real-time thermal comfort assessment in building enclosures	61
Investigation of potential aerosol transmission and infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 through central ventilation systems	61
Carbon value engineering: A framework for integrating embodied carbon and cost reduction strategies in building design	61
Applying blockchain technology for building energy performance measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and the carbon credit market: A review of the literature	60
Anomaly detection based on machine learning in IoT-based vertical plant wall for indoor climate control	60
Evaluating the disparities in urban green space provision in communities with diverse built environments: The case of a rapidly urbanizing Chinese city	59
Assessing occupants’ personal attributes in relation to human perception of environmental comfort: Measurement procedure and data analysis	59
Crowding has consequences: Prevention and management of COVID-19 in informal urban settlements	59
Dilution-based evaluation of airborne infection risk - Thorough expansion of Wells-Riley model	59
Occupancy prediction using deep learning approaches across multiple space types: A minimum sensing strategy	58
Operational carbon transition in the megalopolises’ commercial buildings	58
Facial mask: A necessity to beat COVID-19	58
A psychophysiological effect of indoor thermal condition on college students’ learning performance through EEG measurement	58
Moving to a green building: Indoor environment quality, thermal comfort and health	57
Use of portable air purifiers in homes: Operating behaviour, effect on indoor PM2.5 and perceived indoor air quality	57
A review of different ventilation modes on thermal comfort, air quality and virus spread control	56
New design for solar chimney with integrated windcatcher for space cooling and ventilation	56
Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on roadside traffic-related air pollution in Shanghai, China	56
The role and contribution of green buildings on sustainable development goals	55
Large-eddy simulation of flow around an isolated building: A step-by-step analysis of influencing factors on turbulent statistics	55
Psychological and physiological effects of a green wall on occupants: A cross-over study in virtual reality	55
Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation	55
Triple bottom line sustainability assessment of window-to-wall ratio in US office buildings	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
Estimating and minimizing embodied carbon of prefabricated high-rise residential buildings considering parameter, scenario and model uncertainties	54
Transfer learning based methodology for migration and application of fault detection and diagnosis between building chillers for improving energy efficiency	54
Vegetation cover and plant-trait effects on outdoor thermal comfort in a tropical city	54
Urban green roofs promote metropolitan biodiversity: A comparative case study	54
Comparison of hexahedral, tetrahedral and polyhedral cells for reproducing the wind field around an isolated building by LES	54
Analysis of the urban heat island under different synoptic patterns using local climate zones	53
Impact of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature and carbon emission in a fastest-growing city, Cumilla, Bangladesh	53
Single-sided natural ventilation in buildings: a critical literature review	53
Green roofs and green walls layouts for improved urban air quality by mitigating particulate matter	53
Active ozone removal technologies for a safe indoor environment: A comprehensive review	53
The influence of aspect ratios and solar heating on flow and ventilation in 2D street canyons by scaled outdoor experiments	53
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) for in-duct airborne bioaerosol disinfection: Review and analysis of design factors	52
Mitigating aerosol infection risk in school buildings: the role of natural ventilation, volume, occupancy and CO2 monitoring	52
Optimal design of building environment with hybrid genetic algorithm, artificial neural network, multivariate regression analysis and fuzzy logic controller	52
A hybrid deep transfer learning strategy for thermal comfort prediction in buildings	52
Data acquisition for urban building energy modeling: A review	52
A multi-objective optimization approach for climate-adaptive building envelope design using parametric behavior maps	51
Built environment and the metropolitan pandemic: Analysis of the COVID-19 spread in Hong Kong	51
A single-layer urban canopy model with transmissive radiation exchange between trees and street canyons	51
Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey	51
Automatic detection of building typology using deep learning methods on street level images	50
Indoor air quality (IAQ) in naturally-ventilated primary schools in the UK: Occupant-related factors	50
Understanding the effects of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature based on local climate zones	50
Experimental and numerical study on the transport of droplet aerosols generated by occupants in a fever clinic	50
Human thermal comfort in passenger vehicles using an organic phase change material– an experimental investigation, neural network modelling, and optimization	50
Evaluating the thermal-radiative performance of ENVI-met model for green infrastructure typologies: Experience from a subtropical climate	50
Bedroom ventilation: Review of existing evidence and current standards	49
A comparative study of gender differences in thermal comfort and environmental satisfaction in air-conditioned offices in Qatar, India, and Japan	49
Determining the optimal window size of office buildings considering the workers' task performance and the building's energy consumption	49
Forecasting office indoor CO2 concentration using machine learning with a one-year dataset	49
Predicting the impacts of land use/land cover changes on seasonal urban thermal characteristics using machine learning algorithms	48
The impact of sun sail-shading strategy on the thermal comfort in school courtyards	48
Occupant health in buildings: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the opinions of building professionals and implications on research	48
A field investigation on adaptive thermal comfort in school buildings in the temperate climatic region of Nepal	48
Effect of the appropriateness of sound environment on urban soundscape assessment	47
A new method to improve indoor environment: Combining the living wall with air-conditioning	47
Study on spatio-temporal changes and driving factors of carbon emissions at the building operation stage- A case study of China	47
Critical success factors for green building promotion: A systematic review and meta-analysis	47
Characteristics of indoor air quality in underground metro stations: A critical review	47
Wind tunnel measurement of three-dimensional turbulent flow structures around a building group: Impact of high-rise buildings on pedestrian wind environment	47
Research on work efficiency and light comfort based on EEG evaluation method	47
Ten questions concerning energy flexibility in buildings	47
Research on outdoor thermal comfort of high-density urban center in severe cold area	47
City Information Modelling as a support decision tool for planning and management of cities: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	47
Association of residential energy efficiency retrofits with indoor environmental quality, comfort, and health: A review of empirical data	47
Assessment of the effect of living wall systems on the improvement of the urban heat island phenomenon	47
Multi-objective optimization (MOO) for high-rise residential buildings’ layout centered on daylight, visual, and outdoor thermal metrics in China	46
The effect of a mobile HEPA filter system on ‘infectious’ aerosols, sound and air velocity in the SenseLab	46
UAV-assisted task offloading for IoT in smart buildings and environment via deep reinforcement learning	46
A review of automatic control strategies based on simulations for adaptive facades	46
CFD analysis of the impact of geometrical characteristics of building balconies on near-façade wind flow and surface pressure	46

Impacts of land use/ land cover types on interactions between urban heat island effects and heat waves	46
Evaluating the impact of viewing location on view perception using a virtual environment	45
A review on cooling performance enhancement for phase change materials integrated systems—flexible design and smart control with machine learning applications	45
The influence of acclimatization, age and gender-related differences on thermal perception in university buildings: Case studies in Scotland and England	45
A knowledge-guided and data-driven method for building HVAC systems fault diagnosis	45
Impact of urban morphology on outdoor air temperature and microclimate optimization strategy base on Pareto optimality in Northeast China	45
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	45
Numerical investigations of Re-independence and influence of wall heating on flow characteristics and ventilation in full-scale 2D street canyons	45
Transfer learning for thermal comfort prediction in multiple cities	45
Combined effects of visual-acoustic-thermal comfort in campus open spaces: A pilot study in China's cold region	45
Thermal comfort in university classrooms: An experimental study in the tropics	45
A review of the impact of the green landscape interventions on the urban microclimate of tropical areas	44
The impacts of building characteristics, social psychological and cultural factors on indoor environment quality productivity belief	44
Indoor and outdoor airborne bacterial and fungal air quality in kindergartens: Seasonal distribution, genera, levels, and factors influencing their concentration	44
A framework for Air Quality Management Zones - Useful GIS-based tool for urban planning: Case studies in Antwerp and Gdańsk	44
Estimating the impact of indoor relative humidity on SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission risk using a new modification of the Wells-Riley model	44
Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home	43
Multi-objective optimization of HVAC control in museum environment for artwork preservation, visitors’ thermal comfort and energy efficiency	43
Study on distributions of airflow velocity and convective heat transfer coefficient characterizing duct ventilation in a construction tunnel	43
The impact of indoor environment quality (IEQ) on school children's overall comfort in the UK; a regression approach	43
The incentive mechanism and decision-making behavior in the green building supply market: A tripartite evolutionary game analysis	43
Comparative sustainability evaluation of two engineered wood-based construction materials: Life cycle analysis of CLT versus GLT	43
Impact of climate change on energy saving potentials of natural ventilation and ceiling fans in mixed-mode buildings	43
Improving indoor air quality and thermal comfort in residential kitchens with a new ventilation system	43
Energy performance of phase change materials integrated into brick masonry walls for cooling load management in residential buildings	43
A two-stage multi-objective optimization method for envelope and energy generation systems of primary and secondary school teaching buildings in China	43
A critical review on BIM and LCA integration using the ISO 14040 framework	42
Integration of the WUDAPT, WRF, and ENVI-met models to simulate extreme daytime temperature mitigation strategies in San Jose, California	42
Evaluation of the effect of landscape distance seen in window views on visual satisfaction	42
Fire risk assessment for building operation and maintenance based on BIM technology	42
Coordinated demand-controlled ventilation strategy for energy-efficient operation in multi-zone cleanroom air-conditioning systems	42
Multi-objective optimization of the multi-story residential building with passive design strategy in South Korea	42
The impact of tourism on the conservation and IAQ of cultural heritage: The case of the Monastery of Jerónimos (Portugal)	42
Multi-performance optimization of static shading devices for glare, daylight, view and energy consideration	42
Human comfort modelling for elderly people by infrared thermography: Evaluating the thermoregulation system responses in an indoor environment during winter	42
A systematic review of GIS-based local climate zone mapping studies	42
Transmission risk of infectious droplets in physical spreading process at different times: A review	42
Behavior of cough droplets emitted from Covid-19 patient in hospital isolation room with different ventilation configurations	42
Ventilation regimes of school classrooms against airborne transmission of infectious respiratory droplets: A review	42
Influencing factors in the simulation of airflow and particle transportation in aircraft cabins by CFD	41
Relationships between indoor environmental quality and environmental factors in university classrooms	41
Optimization study of return vent height for an impinging jet ventilation system with exhaust/return-split configuration by TOPSIS method	41
Natural ventilation in classrooms for healthy schools in the COVID era in Mediterranean climate	41
Evaluation of individual thermal sensation at raised indoor temperatures based on skin temperature	41
Evaluation of cough-jet effects on the transport characteristics of respiratory-induced contaminants in airline passengers’ local environments	41
Mapping the barriers to circular economy adoption in the construction industry: A systematic review, Pareto analysis, and mitigation strategy map	41
A review on evaluation metrics of thermal performance in data centers	41
Respiratory infection risk-based ventilation design method	41
A PMV-based HVAC control strategy for office rooms subjected to solar radiation	41
High temperature impairs cognitive performance during a moderate intensity activity	41
A new method for calculating the embodied carbon emissions from buildings in schematic design: Taking “building element” as basic unit	41
Impact of double skin facade constructional features on heat transfer and fluid dynamic behaviour	41
Modification of sweat evaporative heat loss in the PMV/PPD model to improve thermal comfort prediction in warm climates	41
A multiscale analysis of the effect of urban expansion on PM2.5 concentrations in China: Evidence from multisource remote sensing and statistical data	40
Research on environmental comfort and cognitive performance based on EEG+VR+LEC evaluation method in underground space	40
Segmenting areas of potential contamination for adaptive robotic disinfection in built environments	40
Source characterization and risk assessment of occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a barbecue restaurant	40
How to define (net) zero greenhouse gas emissions buildings: The results of an international survey as part of IEA EBC annex 72	40
Effects of frontal area density on outdoor thermal comfort and air quality	40
Hygric properties of porous building materials (VI): A round robin campaign	39
Overall environmental assessment in urban parks: Modelling audio-visual interaction with a structural equation model based on soundscape and landscape indices	39
Ventilation rates in naturally ventilated primary schools in the UK; Contextual, Occupant and Building-related (COB) factors	39
An assessment of the impact of natural ventilation strategies and window opening patterns in office buildings in the mediterranean basin	39
Experimental comparison of local direct heating to improve thermal comfort of workers	39
Implementation of model predictive control in a large-sized, low-energy office building	39
Numerical comparison of the efficiency of mixing ventilation and impinging jet ventilation for exhaled particle removal in a model intensive care unit	39
Investigation of outdoor thermal comfort prediction models in South China: A case study in Guangzhou	39
Towards optimal HVAC control in non-stationary building environments combining active change detection and deep reinforcement learning	39
Estimating carbon emissions in urban functional zones using multi-source data: A case study in Beijing	39
Uncertainty analysis of various CO2-Based tracer-gas methods for estimating seasonal ventilation rates in classrooms with different mechanical systems	38
Relationship between indoor and outdoor NO2: A review	38
Occupant satisfaction with the indoor environment in seven commercial buildings in Singapore	38
Towards a performance-based approach for multifunctional green roofs: An interdisciplinary review	38
Effects of short-term physiological and psychological adaptation on summer thermal comfort of outdoor exercising people in China	38
Building life-span prediction for life cycle assessment and life cycle cost using machine learning: A big data approach	38
COVID-19 and urban spaces: A new integrated CFD approach for public health opportunities	38
Modelling building energy use at urban scale: A review on their account for the urban environment	38
Measuring the relationship between morphological spatial pattern of green space and urban heat island using machine learning methods	38
How correlated colour temperature manipulates human thermal perception and comfort	38
A simulation-based method to predict the life cycle energy performance of residential buildings in different climate zones of China	38
The influence of perceived aesthetic and acoustic quality on outdoor thermal comfort in urban environment	38
Performance assessment of air curtain range hood using contaminant removal efficiency: An experimental and numerical study	38
A framework for pedestrian-level wind conditions improvement in urban areas: CFD simulation and optimization	38
Virtual reality for assessing visual quality and lighting perception: A systematic review	38
Predictive modelling and optimization of HVAC systems using neural network and particle swarm optimization algorithm	38
Separate and combined impacts of building and tree on urban thermal environment from two- and three-dimensional perspectives	38
Evaluation of the cooling effect provided by a green façade as nature-based system for buildings	38
Indoor humidity of dwellings and association with building characteristics, behaviors and health in a northern climate	38
Effect of heat mitigation strategies on thermal environment, thermal comfort, and walkability: A case study in Hong Kong	37
Impacts of COVID-19 on residential building energy use and performance	37
The physical office workplace as a resource for mental health – A systematic scoping review	37
Ultrafine particles: A review about their health effects, presence, generation, and measurement in indoor environments	37
A machine learning and deep learning based approach to predict the thermal performance of phase change material integrated building envelope	37
Passenger overall comfort in high-speed railway environments based on EEG: Assessment and degradation mechanism	37
Predicting human perception of the urban environment in a spatiotemporal urban setting using locally acquired street view images and audio clips	37