Designing post COVID-19 buildings: Approaches for achieving healthy buildings

S Navaratnam, K Nguyen, K Selvaranjan, G Zhang… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the accessibility, social gathering, lifestyle, and working
environment to be changed to reduce the infection. Coronavirus spreads between people in …

A review on indoor environment quality of Indian school classrooms

NR Kapoor, A Kumar, T Alam, A Kumar, KS Kulkarni… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The progress of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) research in school buildings has
increased profusely in the last two decades and the interest in this area is still growing …

An evaluation framework for sustainable plus energy neighbourhoods: Moving beyond the traditional building energy assessment

J Salom, M Tamm, I Andresen, D Cali, Á Magyari… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
There are international activities and on-going initiatives, particularly at the European level,
to define what Positive Energy Districts should be, as the driving concept for the urban …

[HTML][HTML] TAIL, a new scheme for rating indoor environmental quality in offices and hotels undergoing deep energy renovation (EU ALDREN project)

P Wargocki, W Wei, J Bendžalová… - Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
To avoid health risks and discomfort, the European Energy Performance for Building
Directive (EPBD) mandates that “Member States should support energy performance …

Biometric data as real-time measure of physiological reactions to environmental stimuli in the built environment

SGL Persiani, B Kobas, SC Koth, T Auer - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The physiological and cognitive effects of environmental stimuli from the built environment
on humans have been studied for more than a century, over short time frames in terms of …

Scientometric analysis of post-occupancy evaluation research: Development, frontiers and main themes

H Jiang, M Wang, X Shu - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Post-occupancy evaluation (POE), a comprehensive evaluating approach for
building operational performance, has attracted considerable research attention worldwide …

Visualized literature review on sustainable building renovation

C He, Y Hou, L Ding, P Li - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Sustainable building renovation is an important way to address energy and environmental
problems. The paper uses CiteSpace, a visualized method to present a literature review …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers and challenges of the assessment framework of the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2019/786 on building renovation by European RTD projects

M Arbulu, X Oregi, L Etxepare… - Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The refurbishment of buildings is one of the main keys to pursue the targets of the European
Green Deal, and to accomplish the European Union has applied two mechanisms among …

Synthesis of critical factors influencing indoor environmental quality and their impacts on building occupants health and productivity

MC Mewomo, JO Toyin, CO Iyiola… - Journal of Engineering …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The present shift and change in the human lifestyle across the world are
undeniable. Currently, individuals spend a substantial amount of time indoors due to the …

Wellbeing at home: a mediation analysis of residential satisfaction, comfort, and home attachment

BA Wegener, P Schmidt - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2024 - Springer
In the study of residential satisfaction in architectural design different physical comfort
domains have received the most attention. But with this comfort-driven approach, residential …