Ventilation strategies and design impacts on indoor airborne transmission: A review

N Izadyar, W Miller - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the indoor airborne transmission issue to the forefront.
Although ventilation systems provide clean air and dilute indoor contaminated air, there is …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Energy efficient ventilation and indoor air quality in the context of COVID-19-A systematic review

TT Moghadam, CEO Morales, MJL Zambrano… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
New COVID-19 ventilation guidelines have resulted in higher energy consumption to
maintain indoor air quality (IAQ), and energy efficiency has become a secondary concern …

Holistic overview of natural ventilation and mixed mode in built environment of warm climate zones and hot seasons

D Bienvenido-Huertas, ML de la Hoz-Torres… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The climate change leads to periods of extreme events (ie reduction of cold seasons, heat
waves, overheating, urban heat island among others) that affect the performance of …

Multi-objective optimization of window configuration and furniture arrangement for the natural ventilation of office buildings using Taguchi-based grey relational …

X Yin, MW Muhieldeen, R Razman, JYC Ee - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural window ventilation plays a key role in energy-efficient building design to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goal 11. However, window ventilation effectiveness has often …

Lessons learnt for enhancing hospital resilience to pandemics: A qualitative analysis from Italy

R Marmo, F Pascale, L Diana, E Sicignano… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has outlined the need to strengthen the resilience of healthcare
systems. It has cost millions of human lives and has had indirect health impacts too. Hospital …

Urban ventilation assessment with improved vertical wind profile in high-density cities–Comparisons between LiDAR and conventional methods

Y He, C Yuan, C Ren, E Ng - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The vertical wind speed profile is crucial to urban ventilation assessment and urban
planning/design. This study uses Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) observation as …

Urban ventilation assessment with improved vertical wind profile in high-density cities–Investigations in nighttime extreme heat

Y He, C Yuan, C Ren, W Wang, Y Shi, E Ng - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change and heatwaves challenge urban dwellers' thermal comfort and health. In
Hong Kong, more frequent and intensive extreme heat has been observed recently. This …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of vertical shading designs on the cross-ventilation performance of a high-rise office building

X Yin, MW Muhieldeen - Results in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Historically, windows shading systems have been part of sustainable design elements that
minimize solar heat gain while still allowing fresh air to pass through. However, there is a …

Transmission in home environment associated with the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India

L Tang, M Liu, B Ren, J Chen, X Liu, X Wu… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
India has suffered from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic since March 2021. This
wave of the outbreak has been more serious than the first wave pandemic in 2020, which …