Need for a Holistic Approach to Assessing Sustainable, Green, and Healthy Buildings DOI Creative Commons
Nishchaya Kumar Mishra, Sameer Patel

Environment & Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

With the rising global population, economic development, and urbanization, building stock is bound to grow, warranting measures for optimizing their embodied operational energy resource consumption. Further, a building's indoor environment quality significantly affects occupants' health, productivity, well-being since people spend almost 90% of time indoors. Buildings safeguard occupant's by shielding them from outdoor air pollution increasing climate extremes. However, buildings can also lead acute chronic exposure pollutants trapped inside. The recent pandemic has demonstrated that environments prevent promote airborne disease transmission depending on buildings' design operation. current segregated rating systems regulations gauge sustainability, health safety, efficiency have led fragmented approach hampering sustainable healthy design, construction, operations. This work discusses environmental sustainability buildings, impacts if how existing policies frameworks regulate same. Developing holistic comprehensive framework critical ensure efficiency.

Language: Английский

Local thermal sensation model with local skin temperature and local skin heat flux in a personalized heating microenvironment DOI
Guoqing Yu, Renfu Lu, Xing Lv

et al.

Energy and Buildings, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 115429 - 115429

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Assessment of energy-saving strategies mitigating high energy usage in residential buildings DOI
Thabo Khafiso, Samuel Adeniyi Adekunle, Clinton Aigbavboa

et al.

Property Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 18, 2025

Purpose The increasing energy consumption in residential buildings poses significant challenges to sustainability, economic efficiency, and environmental health. Despite the availability of numerous energy-saving strategies, their adoption remains inconsistent due various barriers such as cost, awareness technical limitations. This paper aims assess strategies mitigating high buildings. Design/methodology/approach study adopted a quantitative research methodology. A carefully developed questionnaire was distributed group 20 Delphi experts collect data. These possess extensive experience areas use, management savings. also issued end users gather collected data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. Findings results indicate strong preference for certain measures, with energy-efficient appliances, occupant behavior adjustments heating, ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) system upgrades emerging most frequently strategies. Measures installing smart thermostats windows ranked highly, reflecting perceived effectiveness reducing consumption. However, like weatherizing power strips less implemented, suggesting lower prioritization or adoption. findings further emphasize importance HVAC-related maintenance upgrades, highlighted by top rankings frequent while simpler actions, insulation turning off lights, despite potential Research limitations/implications study’s limitations include reliance on self-reported data, bias participant responses lack consideration contextual factors regional climate, socioeconomic conditions technological access that may influence measures. Originality/value is distinctive its integration method questionnaires holistically evaluate measures excessive use structures. By integrating expert consensus empirical from diverse contexts, it provides comprehensive nuanced understanding effective practices.

Language: Английский

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Toward Clean and Green Buildings DOI
Linsey C. Marr, Christopher D. Cappa, William P. Bahnfleth

et al.

Journal of Environmental Engineering, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 150(9)

Published: June 27, 2024

Language: Английский

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Characterization of particulate matter in a multizonal residential apartment: transport, exposure, and mitigation DOI Creative Commons
Alok Thakur, Sameer Patel

Environmental Science Atmospheres, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(9), P. 1026 - 1041

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Spatio-temporal monitoring in a multizonal apartment focussing on inter-zonal transport, exposure, and characterization of mitigation techniques (portable air cleaner, conditioners, natural ventilation, filter sheets).

Language: Английский

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Need for a Holistic Approach to Assessing Sustainable, Green, and Healthy Buildings DOI Creative Commons
Nishchaya Kumar Mishra, Sameer Patel

Environment & Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

With the rising global population, economic development, and urbanization, building stock is bound to grow, warranting measures for optimizing their embodied operational energy resource consumption. Further, a building's indoor environment quality significantly affects occupants' health, productivity, well-being since people spend almost 90% of time indoors. Buildings safeguard occupant's by shielding them from outdoor air pollution increasing climate extremes. However, buildings can also lead acute chronic exposure pollutants trapped inside. The recent pandemic has demonstrated that environments prevent promote airborne disease transmission depending on buildings' design operation. current segregated rating systems regulations gauge sustainability, health safety, efficiency have led fragmented approach hampering sustainable healthy design, construction, operations. This work discusses environmental sustainability buildings, impacts if how existing policies frameworks regulate same. Developing holistic comprehensive framework critical ensure efficiency.

Language: Английский

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0