Towards implementing an indoor environmental quality standard in buildings: A pilot study

Sansaniwal, Sunil Kumar; Kumar, Shailendra; Jain, Nikhil; Mathur, Jyotirmay; Mathur, Sanjay

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“…In the context of climate change, energy efficiency, and renewable energy, we are looking for novel energy optimisation techniques leading to the identification of designs and technologies that will reduce energy use and maximise energy saving in hot and dry locations (Sansaniwal et al, 2021).…”

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Assessing the Effect of Building Skin Adaptability on Energy Consumption in Hot Arid Regions

Khelil¹,

Khelil²,

Bouzir³

et al. 2022

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Building skins have a vital role in energy efficiency, particularly in terms of the conservation or consumption of energy. Many factors must be considered by designers to prevent wasting significant quantities of energy, to preserve and provide internal air conditioning and lighting, particularly in hot dry locations where the integration of sun protection systems is highly recommended. This pilot study looks at the challenge of developing energy-efficient building skins in hot regions like Biskra city by applying a natural daylight strategy represented by a parameterised moveable shading component to the skin of a hospital patient’s room. In this research, we aim to assess the adoption of building skin parameterisation as a beneficial technique for reducing energy consumption and improving internal temperature and lighting in this environment by developing and implementing a computational design methodology. Promising experimental results demonstrate the benefit of this proposal. The use of parameterisation in the design of patient’s room skins, with moveable, tightly folded morphology, providing self-shading, are essential and effective techniques for ensuring good natural lighting and reducing both temperature and energy consumption..

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Assessing the Effect of Building Skin Adaptability on Energy Consumption in Hot Arid Regions

Khelil¹,

Khelil²,

Bouzir³

et al. 2022

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“…Indoor air quality can be compromised by both outdoor and indoor sources of pollutants related to building materials, equipment, animals and humans ( Van Tran et al, 2020). Recent research has demonstrated new implementation methodologies for quantifying IEQ elements (i.e., thermal comfort, indoor air quality, visual comfort, and acoustic comfort) in real buildings (Sansaniwal et al, 2021b). Below is a summary of the main findings of the articles included in this Research Topic.…”

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Editorial: Healthy and energy efficient buildings

González-Lezcano,

Sansaniwal

2023

Front. Built Environ.

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Editorial on the Research Topic Healthy and energy efficient buildingsThe built environment has a significant impact on human health. The extent of the impact of buildings on human health and the environment depends on different environmental factors. The extent of the impact of buildings on human health and the environment depends on the design, materials and methods used for construction and operation (Altomonte, 2019;Awada et al., 2022;López et al., 2023). It is increasingly important to design healthy buildings in the pursuit of sustainable development, where not only the occupants play an important role in ensuring indoor air quality through their habits, but also current developments related to interior finishes with low chemical emissions and good fungal resistance (Rupp et al., 2015;Loftness et al., 2007).Recent research has shown that people contract COVID-19 through airborne transmission indoors, especially in poorly ventilated environments (Domínguez-amarillo et al., 2020). It is therefore necessary to maintain optimal air quality to eradicate the virus spread. This requires innovative changes to existing indoor and outdoor infrastructure to positively influence occupants even in the most densely populated spaces (Karagulian et al., 2015). This is also a challenge to traditional residential and public building construction in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (López et al., 2023).Because as previously stated, people spend most of their time inside buildings and, therefore, a healthy and comfortable indoor environment is essential for human beings. Indoor environmental quality encompasses the four environmental conditions (thermal, air quality, visual and acoustic) within the building (Serrano-Jiménez et al., 2020;González-Lezcano, 2023). Humans have strived to control their built environments in which they can feel comfortable. The use of adaptive actions by occupants, such as opening windows or doors, using blinds, and using fans, substantially influences the indoor environment. Naturally ventilated or free-running buildings provide many adaptive opportunities for occupants to improve their built environment by utilizing natural airflows (Kumar et al., 2016). Opening windows helps in comfortable ventilation of air, distribution of fresh air and extracts overheated and polluted air from the interior space (Kaasalainen et al., 2020). Recently developed research (Sansaniwal et al., 2021a) showed that the adaptive actions of the occupant were governed primarily by the search for comfort and were based primarily on the change in the indoor rather than the outdoor environment and that the behavioral patterns of the occupants can be used to simulate the environment built in buildings with natural ventilation.

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Evaluation of building energy load of a multipurpose hall and its optimization through spectrally selective fenestration and passive design concepts

Rastogi,

Moharana

2023

Archit. Struct. Constr.

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Towards implementing an indoor environmental quality standard in buildings: A pilot study

Cited by 7 publications

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Assessing the Effect of Building Skin Adaptability on Energy Consumption in Hot Arid Regions

Assessing the Effect of Building Skin Adaptability on Energy Consumption in Hot Arid Regions

Editorial: Healthy and energy efficient buildings

Evaluation of building energy load of a multipurpose hall and its optimization through spectrally selective fenestration and passive design concepts

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