Healthy and Sustainable Built Environment Solutions towards Building Decarbonization
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 November 2023) | Viewed by 4265
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-performance building ventilation; computational simulation of indoor airflow; green and sustainable building
2. Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, PC 123, Alkhoud P.O. Box 33, Oman
Interests: net-zero energy buildings; renewable and sustainable energy applications; smart buildings and cities; design and analysis of building energy systems; buildings energy efficiency; thermal analysis
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Interests: building mechanical systems; building energy; fire smoke control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue “Healthy and Sustainable Built Environment Solutions towards Building Decarbonization” for the journal Sustainability.
The building sector accounts for the largest proportion of human-activity carbon emission in most countries all over the world. In order to create and maintain a healthy and sustainable built environment, both active and passive technologies are typically employed. The decarbonization campaign in response to severe climate change happening to our planet has shaped the technological means to create sustainable and resilient built environments. In urban planning and building science, solutions to improve the efficiency of active technologies, such as high-performance ventilation means, innovative heating/cooling systems, as well as the absorption/adsorption/infiltration means to improve indoor air quality are emerging rapidly. These are not only basic demands for the comfort and health of occupants, but also necessary in some industrial areas, such as pharmaceutical and chip production, not to mention human well-being during and post the COVID-19 pandemic era. In most climatic conditions, sustainable active solutions should be utilized to create better built environments in place of intensive carbon emission. As the collateral objectives of sustainability, built environments and decarbonization are both important. Practical and innovative progress in various engineering disciplines and cross-disciplines should be discussed to facilitate the imperative simultaneous solutions of built environments and decarbonization.
This Special Issue aims to discuss solutions towards a healthy and sustainable built environment within the context of building decarbonization. It is open to all sustainable science and engineering disciplines and research addressing the issues and progress for current and future built environments.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Ventilation systems and technology to create better indoor and outdoor environments and save energy for cooling (ventilative cooling);
- High-energy-efficiency building science and technology towards decarbonization;
- Innovations in the building envelope in extreme hot/cold climates to reduce building carbon emission;
- Intelligent control and monitoring of built environments;
- Healthy building environments;
- Building integrated photovoltaic and indoor thermal environments;
- City and building aerodynamics and indoor air quality.
Dr. Haidong Wang
Dr. Saleh N. J. Al-Saadi
Dr. Dahai Qi
Dr. Zhixiang Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable built environment
- decarbonization
- building ventilation
- healthy building
