Multi-domain indoor environmental quality in buildings: A review of their interaction and combined effects on occupant satisfaction

Y Zhao, D Li - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant satisfaction is influenced by the interaction and combined effects of multi-domain
indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in buildings. While there are literature reviews on multi …

Personal thermal comfort models based on physiological measurements–A design of experiments based review

K Chen, Q Xu, B Leow, A Ghahramani - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Researchers have shown that the physiological-based personal comfort models (PCM) are
capable of addressing individual differences as well as transient thermal comfort. Given that …

Towards democratization of digital twins: Design principles for transformation into a human-building interface

KS Lee, JJ Lee, C Aucremanne, I Shah… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
While legacy building digital twins (DTs), such as building management systems, help
building and facility managers to make informed decisions, the real end-users of buildings …

[HTML][HTML] Infrared-fused vision-based thermoregulation performance estimation for personal thermal comfort-driven HVAC system controls

A Ghahramani, Q Xu, S Min, A Wang, H Zhang, Y He… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Thermal comfort is one of the primary factors influencing occupant health, well-being, and
productivity in buildings. Existing thermal comfort systems require occupants to frequently …

Evaluation of Air Pollution Levels in Agricultural Settings Using Integrated Weather Variables and Air Pollutants

SS Almady, SM Al-Sager, AA Al-Janobi, SA Marey… - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Research on the quality of the air in rural areas is essential for determining base emissions
of air pollutants, evaluating the effects of dust pollutants particular to rural areas, modeling …

Warm, moderate, or cool-liker? A benchmarking framework to characterize occupant overall thermal preferences based on large-scale thermostat data

K Chen, A Ghahramani - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Humans could exhibit distinct overall thermal preferences when exposed to identical indoor
thermal environments, leading to preference groups such as" warm-likers" or" cool-likers" …

[HTML][HTML] A Co-Location Study of 87 Low-Cost Environmental Monitors: Assessing Outliers, Variability, and Uncertainty

S Manu, A Rysanek - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
While field research in indoor air quality (IAQ) increasingly uses large numbers of low-cost
sensors, detailed validation of each sensor is becoming infeasible, ignored, or undeclared …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating indoor air quality monitoring devices for healthy homes

T Peters, C Zhen - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
In light of COVID-19, people are increasingly anxious about indoor air quality data in places
where they live and work. Access to this data using a consumer-grade air quality monitor …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on PM2.5 Concentrations in Downtown Quito during the Lockdowns in 2020

W Hernandez, FJ Arqués-Orobón… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a comparative analysis between the PM 2.5 concentration in downtown Quito,
Ecuador, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the previous five years (from 2015 to …

Digital Twin Energy Management System for Human-Centered Hvac and Mels Optimization in Commercial Buildings

H Nabizadeh Rafsanjani, AH Nabizadeh… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
In the commercial built environment, human-centered design is generally described as the
process of making the preferences of occupants as the most important priority in design and …