Ventilation is at the nexus of health, energy and climate. Adequate ventilation in buildings and cities is essential for human health, comfort and performance, and the approach to achieving this can have an enormous impact on building energy consumption, carbon emissions and climate change. The field of ventilation intersects with many closely related fields including indoor air quality, HVAC systems design and operation, public health, building materials and envelope systems, architectural design and urban planning, and environmental control in transportation vehicles, industrial and agricultural production facilities.

International Journal of Ventilation (IJV) is a peer reviewed journal dedicated to serving the international scientific community of ventilation. IJV publishes high quality original research works that have potentially long-lasting value and significant impact on the advancement of ventilation theory and/or practice. Both the fundamental theory and practice are emphasized here. Theory enables us to establish generalizable principles for broader applications. Practice validates theory and inspires new research and development.

We welcome submissions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

    New concepts, theories and approaches concerned with the development or application of ventilation
    Validated case studies demonstrating the performance of ventilation strategies, systems or devices
    Modeling and developments in numerical methods
    Measurement and monitoring techniques and procedures
    Environmental and occupant sensors for ventilation system controls
    Air infiltration and ventilation
    Personal ventilation
    Demand-based ventilation
    Energy recovery ventilation
    Air filtration or purification to supplement ventilation for pollution control
    Intelligent IOT-based ventilation system controls
    Building façade and enclosure-integrated ventilation
    Ventilation of cities
    Driving forces for ventilation – natural, mechanical or hybrid ventilations
    Impacts of ventilation on air quality, health, comfort, productivity and creativity
    Impacts of ventilation on energy consumptions and costs

IJV covers ventilation research and applications in a wide range of built environments including, but not limited to: commercial buildings, such as offices, hotels, shopping malls; residential buildings; schools; transportation environments, such as cars, buses, trains, submarines and spaceships; industrial buildings and facilities; agricultural buildings; IT facilities, such as data centers; underground spaces such as subway stations and mining tunnels; urban cities.

Special editions covering specific topics, collaborative research projects and conferences are also produced. Only papers of archival values that have original research contributions or novel applications will be accepted for publication.

Chief Editor
Professor Ben Hughes (Dept. of Energy, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK);
Founding Editor
Dr. Martin Liddament
Associate Editors
Dr. John Calautit (University of Nottingham, UK)
Dr. Hassam Chaudhry (Heriot-Watt University, UAE)
Prof. Ing. Gian Vincenzo Fracastoro (Dipartimento di Energetica Politecnico di Torino, Italy); 
Dr. Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang (Syracuse University, US);
Editorial Board
Prof. Francis Allard  (LEPTIAB, Université de La Rochelle, France);
Prof. Bert Blocken (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium);
Prof. Malcolm Cook ( Dept of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicester, UK);
Prof. Fariborz Haghighat (Dept. of Building, Civil and Environmental Eng, Concordia University, Canada);
Prof. Gary Hunt Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK; 
Prof. Arnold Janssens (University of Ghent, Belgium);
Dr. Benjamin Jones (University of Nottingham, UK);
Dr. Taghi Karimipanah (University of Gävle, Sweden);
Prof. Shinsuke Kato  (Industrial Institute of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan);
Prof. Essam Khalil (Cairo University, Egypt);
Prof. Kwang-Woo Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea);
Prof. Maria Kolokotroni (Brunel University, UK);
Prof. Risto Kosonen (Aalto University, Finland);
Prof. Baizhan Li (Faculty of Urban Construction and Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University, China);
Dr. Dongning Li (Quantitative Risk Management Inc. Chicago, IL, USA)
Prof. Xianting Li (Tsinghua University, China);
Prof. Yuguo Li (University of Hong Kong, China);
Dr. Amina Meslem (University of Rennes 1, France);
Prof. Dirk Mueller (RWTH, Aachen University, Germany);
Dr. Ilinca Nastase (Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania);
Prof. Mat Santamouris (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece);
Prof. Chandra Sekhar (School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore);
Prof. Manuel Gameiro da Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal);
Dr. Iain Walker (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US).  
Prof. Pawel Wargocki (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark);