Prioritising indoor air quality in building design can mitigate future airborne viral outbreaks

O Sloan Brittain, H Wood, P Kumar - Cities & health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus how poor indoor air quality can
amplify the effects of airborne viruses. Rather than promoting health and wellbeing, our built …

Indoor Air Quality: Rethinking rules of building design strategies in post-pandemic architecture

NA Megahed, EM Ghoneim - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
To effectively reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, it is crucial to highlight the effectiveness of
building design strategies in mitigating threats to occupants. The ongoing pandemic …

A review of strategies and their effectiveness in reducing indoor airborne transmission and improving indoor air quality

AN Nair, P Anand, A George, N Mondal - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission arises through the inhalation of aerosol droplets exhaled by an
infected person and is now thought to be the primary transmission route of COVID-19. Thus …

Viral infection transmission and indoor air quality: A systematic review

Z Alqarni, Y Rezgui, I Petri, A Ghoroghi - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Respiratory disease transmission in indoor environments presents persistent challenges for
health authorities, as exemplified by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This underscores the …

The ventilation of buildings and other mitigating measures for COVID-19: a focus on wintertime

HC Burridge, RK Bhagat… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The year 2020 has seen the emergence of a global pandemic as a result of the disease
COVID-19. This report reviews knowledge of the transmission of COVID-19 indoors …

[HTML][HTML] A review on indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19–modelling and mitigation approaches

S Rayegan, C Shu, J Berquist, J Jeon, LG Zhou… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past few years, significant efforts have been made to investigate the transmission of
COVID-19. This paper provides a review of the COVID-19 airborne transmission modeling …

Enhancing indoor air quality and regulatory compliance: An in-depth comparative study on ventilation strategies and their impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk

A Abbaspour, A Bahadori-Jahromi, A Janbey… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Enclosed-space ventilation plays a pivotal role in enhancing indoor air quality (IAQ). Various
regulations and guidelines determine minimum fresh air requirements, varying by the …

[HTML][HTML] A real-time web tool for monitoring and mitigating indoor airborne COVID-19 transmission risks at city scale

A Katal, LL Wang, M Albettar - Sustainable cities and society, 2022 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission of aerosols contributes to a large portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spread
indoors. This study develops a real-time interactive web-based platform for the public to …

[HTML][HTML] How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised?

L Morawska, JW Tang, W Bahnfleth, PM Bluyssen… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
During the rapid rise in COVID-19 illnesses and deaths globally, and notwithstanding
recommended precautions, questions are voiced about routes of transmission for this …

[HTML][HTML] Designing for COVID-2x: reflecting on future-proofing human habitation for the inevitable next pandemic

DHR Spennemann - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020–2022 has revealed the vulnerability of modern society to
a highly contagious airborne virus. Many spaces in the urban and built environment …