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 …

Indoor air quality strategies for air-conditioning and ventilation systems with the spread of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic: Improvements and …

AM Elsaid, MS Ahmed - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The coronavirus has come to the world and spread with great wide among the countries of
the world and has resulted in numerous infections that exceeded 167,181,023 million …

[HTML][HTML] Temporary reduction in fine particulate matter due to 'anthropogenic emissions switch-off'during COVID-19 lockdown in Indian cities

P Kumar, S Hama, H Omidvarborna, A Sharma… - Sustainable cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic elicited a global response to limit associated mortality, with social
distancing and lockdowns being imposed. In India, human activities were restricted from late …

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 …

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 …

Post-pandemic architecture: a critical review of the expected feasibility of skyscraper-integrated vertical farming (SIVF)

MM Shahda, NA Megahed - Architectural Engineering and Design …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Can skyscrapers survive after COVID-19? Can the idea of integrating vertical farming (VF)
into vertical architecture support the environmental, economic, and social issues in the post …

[HTML][HTML] Low-cost air quality sensing towards smart homes

H Omidvarborna, P Kumar, J Hayward, M Gupta… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
The evolution of low-cost sensors (LCSs) has made the spatio-temporal mapping of indoor
air quality (IAQ) possible in real-time but the availability of a diverse set of LCSs make their …

[HTML][HTML] A review on building design as a biomedical system for preventing COVID-19 Pandemic

M Amran, N Makul, R Fediuk, A Borovkov, M Ali… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sustainable design methods aim to obtain architectural solutions that assure the
coexistence and welfare of human beings, inorganic structures, and living things that …

A measurement model of occupant well-being for Malaysian office building

R Mansor, L Sheau-Ting - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The condition of indoor environment is becoming progressively crucial because inadequate
indoor conditions in office building can create risks to occupant well-being such as adverse …

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 …