The International Journal of Building Science and its Applications

Aims

Building and Environment is international journal that publishes original research papers, comprehensive review articles, editorials, and short communications related to building science, urban physics, and human interaction with the indoor and outdoor built environment.

The Journal is focused on innovative, cutting edge technologies and knowledge, rigorously verified with measurement and analysis. The Journal publishes articles related to the environmental performance of the built environment in a wide range of spatial scales, ranging from cities, communities, buildings, to building systems and assemblies as well as other built environments such as those related to transportation and industrial settings. We encourage submission of collaborative, multi-disciplinary research results with broader significance.

Scope

Topics covered in the Journal include, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Technologies, especially smart technologies and integrated systems for high performance buildings and cities:


- Advanced building envelopes
- Advanced building control technologies and principles
- Artificial intelligence as applied to buildings or building systems
- Automation in the built environment using brain-computer interfaces
- Data management and digital twins for automation in the built environment
- Smart space conditioning systems that are responsive to comfort
- Sustainable, hybrid, and smart heating and air conditioning technologies

• Thermal comfort, ventilation, acoustic and visual performance in buildings and their impacts on human beings:

- Building acoustics and lighting
- Building ventilation, including occupant-centered ventilation for improving microclimates
- Health, productivity, and well-being related to the built environment
- Human thermoregulation mechanisms and their interactions with the indoor and outdoor environments
- Thermal comfort indoors, outdoors and in transition spaces
- Monitoring and assessing the impact of indoor and urban pollution on people

• Air quality and airborne infection control in building science and engineering

- Airborne pollutants (including physical, chemical, and microbiological) formation, transport, and measurement in buildings
- Self-decontaminating materials for occupant protection in health care and other high health risk-built environments
- Innovative indoor air cleaning and decontamination technologies
- Indoor environments in buildings and transportation vehicles
- Indoor pollutant sources and control strategies for contaminant removal
- Airborne infectious disease control of the built environment
- Personalized technologies for prevention of indoor cross-contamination

• Advanced tools for the design and decision-making communities, including tested computational, economic, educational and policy tools:

- Building performance and advanced simulation tools
- Modeling and simulation of building stocks at different scales
- Policy studies related to buildings and the environment
- Thermal analysis of buildings
- Urban physics measurement and modeling


• Solutions for mitigating environmental impacts and achieving low carbon, resilient, and sustainable built environments:

- Building resilience (not including structures, seismic performance, flooding, fire, etc.) related to current and/or future climates
- Carbon capture and sustainable systems
- Circular building systems and technologies
- Decarbonization technologies for building systems and communities
- Global warming as related to building and urban environments
- Green buildings and sustainable systems and their impacts on the urban environment
- Life cycle assessment of building environmental impacts
- Climate-neutral buildings and communities
- Sustainable and innovative solutions and measures for mitigation of the urban heat island

Editor-in-Chief
Qingyan Chen
Qingyan Chen
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States Email Qingyan Chen
Editors
Bert Blocken
Bert Blocken
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands & KU Leuven, BelgiumEmail Bert Blocken
Kwang Woo Kim
Kwang Woo Kim
Seoul National University Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Email Kwang Woo Kim
Chao-Hsin Lin
Chao-Hsin Lin
Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle, Washington, United States Email Chao-Hsin Lin
Associate Editors
Maarten Hornikx
Maarten Hornikx
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands Email Maarten Hornikx
Cheuk Ming Mak
Cheuk Ming Mak
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Email Cheuk Ming Mak
Arsen Melikov
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark Email Arsen Melikov
Atila Novoselac
Email Atila Novoselac
Monika Woloszyn
Savoie University Le Bourget-du-Lac, Le Bourget-Du-Lac, France Email Monika Woloszyn
Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom Email Jonathan Wright
Xudong Yang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Email Xudong Yang
Editorial Advisory Board Members
Marilyn Andersen
Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
William Bahnfleth
William Bahnfleth
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Gail Brager
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Walid Chakroun, PhD
Walid Chakroun, PhD
Kuwait University, College of Engineering and Petroleum, Mechanical Engineering Department, Safat, Kuwait
Christopher Chao
Christopher Chao
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Stefano Corgnati
Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy
Richard Corsi
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States
Qihong Deng, Ph.D.
Qihong Deng, Ph.D.
Central South University, Changsha, China
Mariana Figueiro, PhD, MS, BA
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States
Naiping Gao, PhD
Tongji University, College of Mechanical Engineering, Yangpu, China
Nesreen K. Ghaddar
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Taehoon Hong, PhD
Yonsei University Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Kazuhide Ito, PhD
Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan
Chi-Ming Lai
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Zhiwei Lian
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China
Borong Lin
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Dirk Muller
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Catherine J. Noakes, PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FIHEEM
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Marco Perino
Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy
Andrew Persily
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Aakash C. Rai
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Darren Robinson
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Staf Roels
KU Leuven Division of Building Physics, Leuven, Belgium
Chandra Sekhar
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Jeffrey Siegel
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jelena Srebric
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Shin-ichi Tanabe
Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineeri, Tokyo, Japan
Athanasios Tzempelikos
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Zhaojun Wang
Harbin Institute of Technology, Haerbin, China
Pawel Wargocki
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark
Tengfei Zhang
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China