Overview of recent researches in IAQ, ventilation, and energy conservation
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Overview of recent researches in IAQ, ventilation, and energy conservation Editorial
Umberto Berardi () (Guest Editor) Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada © Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
The International Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation (IAQVEC) conference is the premier international event in the field of indoor air quality, ventilation and energy saving. This international meeting started 30 years ago with the goal of connecting topics typically addressed separately. IAQVEC is a premier international conference series, held once every three years since 1992, and hosted in different countries every time (in the past, it has been organized in Canada, France, China, Japan, USA, Czech Republic, R.O. Korea, lately in Italy). The X IAQVEC 2019 focused on the theme “Healthy nearly Zero Energy Buildings” and envisaged the participation of a large number of scientists, researchers, and practitioners and the submission of papers covering a broad range of topics relevant to the goal of connecting energy saving and healthy indoor environments. The conference was organized around five streams: ventilation and measurement techniques; IAQ and indoor environmental quality; HVAC systems; smart technologies for zero energy buildings (ZEBs); and ZEBs: design and energy modeling. The distribution of contributions among the five streams testifies the active participation of researchers active in different research areas. X IAQVEC 2019 attracted over 500 submissions from 77 countries around the world, and had over 300 oral presentations. Among these papers, the International Scientific Committee, chaired by Prof. Francis Allard, select the best papers whose authors were invited to extend their study and submit an extended paper to Building Simulation: An International Journal. The partenership between the conference and this journal emerged naturally, as the role of building simulation is of the foremost importance to meet the requirements of healthy nearly zero energy buildings and to evaluate high performance E-mail: [email protected]
of both IAQ and energy aspects in buildings. Among the topics of the IAQVEC 2019 Conference, the topical issue on “IAQ and Indoor Pollution Modelling” addressed the following streams: air quality modelling; simulation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); pollution and contaminants modeling; and healthy nearly zero energy buildings (ZEB). This special issue includes papers of extremely high value and interest, as briefly reported below. The distribution of contaminants and pollutions in indoor environments is discussed using numerical models by Agirman et al. (2020) in the paper “Effect of air exhaust location on surgical site particle distribution in an operating room”, and by Zhang et al. (2020) in their paper “On the capture of polar indoor air pollutants at sub-ppm level—A molecular simulation study”. Looking at the effe
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