INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Scope & Guideline
Advancing Sustainable Solutions for Healthier Spaces
Introduction
Aims and Scopes
- Indoor Air Quality and Health:
Research in this area examines the impact of indoor air pollutants, ventilation strategies, and environmental controls on occupant health and comfort, emphasizing the significance of maintaining a healthy indoor atmosphere. - Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency:
This scope includes studies on thermal comfort models, energy consumption analyses, and the performance evaluation of heating and cooling systems, aiming to optimize energy efficiency while ensuring occupant comfort. - Building Design and Sustainability:
This area focuses on innovative building design practices, including passive design strategies, sustainable materials, and techniques to reduce energy usage and environmental impact, promoting a holistic approach to sustainable architecture. - Simulation and Modeling:
Utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and other simulation techniques, this research explores airflow dynamics, pollutant dispersion, and thermal performance, providing insights into optimizing building designs for better indoor environments. - Cultural and Contextual Adaptation:
This unique focus examines how cultural and local factors influence building design and adaptation strategies, particularly in traditional and historical contexts, ensuring that modern interventions respect local heritage.
Trending and Emerging
- Impact of COVID-19 on Indoor Environments:
Research exploring the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on indoor air quality, ventilation strategies, and infection control has surged, reflecting the urgent need for effective measures in preventing airborne diseases in shared spaces. - Smart Building Technologies:
There is an increasing focus on integrating smart technologies, such as IoT and AI, into building management systems, aiming to enhance indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency through real-time data and automation. - Resilience and Climate Adaptation:
Studies addressing how buildings can adapt to climate change and extreme weather events are on the rise, emphasizing the importance of resilience in building design and urban planning. - Biophilic Design and Wellbeing:
Research on biophilic design principles, which promote connections to nature within built environments, is trending, highlighting their positive effects on occupant wellbeing and productivity. - Behavioral Response to Indoor Environments:
An emerging area of interest involves understanding how occupant behavior influences indoor environmental quality and vice versa, incorporating psychological and sociological perspectives into building science.
Declining or Waning
- Traditional Construction Techniques:
There has been a noticeable reduction in studies focusing on traditional construction methods and materials, possibly as the field shifts towards modern, sustainable technologies and practices that prioritize energy efficiency over historical methods. - Generalized Indoor Environmental Studies:
Research that broadly addresses indoor environmental conditions without specific applications or contexts has waned, as the journal increasingly emphasizes targeted studies that connect indoor environments to specific health outcomes or design strategies. - Non-Quantitative Assessments of Indoor Environments:
The journal has seen fewer qualitative studies or those relying on non-empirical assessments, as there is a growing preference for quantitative analyses and data-driven research that can provide more robust conclusions.
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