Issue 5/2023
Special Issue on COVID-19 Prevention and Control in the Built Environment with Low Resource Consumption
Content (10 Articles)
Editorial
Predicting building ventilation performance in the era of an indoor air crisis
Yuguo Li, Pan Cheng, Li Liu, Ao Li, Wei Jia, Nan Zhang
Cover Article
A cost-effectiveness assessment of the operational parameters of central HVAC systems during pandemics
Yufan Chang, Zhengtao Ai, Jinjun Ye, Guochuan Ma
Research Article
Temporal-spatial risk assessment of COVID-19 under the influence of urban spatial environmental parameters: The case of Shenyang city
Sui Li, Zhe Li, Yixin Dong, Tiemao Shi, Shiwen Zhou, Yumeng Chen, Xun Wang, Feifei Qin
Research Article
Analysis of COVID-19 clusters involving vertical transmission in residential buildings in Hong Kong
Pengcheng Zhao
Research Article
Quantification of how mechanical ventilation influences the airborne infection risk of COVID-19 and HVAC energy consumption in office buildings
Zhihong Pang, Xing Lu, Zheng O’Neill
Research Article
Occupancy-aided ventilation for airborne infection risk control: Continuously or intermittently reduced occupancies?
Sheng Zhang, Dun Niu, Zhang Lin
Open Access
Research Article
Impact of ionizers on prevention of airborne infection in classroom
Chen Ren, Fariborz Haghighat, Zhuangbo Feng, Prashant Kumar, Shi-Jie Cao
Research Article
Predominance of inhalation route in short-range transmission of respiratory viruses: Investigation based on computational fluid dynamics
Wenzhao Chen, Li Liu, Jian Hang, Yuguo Li
Research Article
Tracing the origin of large respiratory droplets by their deposition characteristics inside the respiratory tract during speech
Yihan Wang, Jianjian Wei, Caroline X. Gao, Tao Jin, Li Liu
Research Article
Multi-objective optimization of mechanical ventilation with the aid of purifiers in two scenarios: Regular operation and mitigating the spread of respiratory infectious diseases
Yiqun Li, Yujie Fan, Chengqiang Zhi, Wei Ye, Xu Zhang