A review on indoor green plants employed to improve indoor environment

F Liu, L Yan, X Meng, C Zhang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
With the urban development, indoor air quality (IAQ) is of growing public health concern due
to that fact people spend 80%–90% of their time indoors, which has prompted the use of …

Challenges of a healthy built environment: Air pollution in construction industry

AA Wieser, M Scherz, A Passer, H Kreiner - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Air pollution is a global concern, especially in cities and urban areas, and has many
implications for human health and for the environment. In common with other industrial …

A prediction model for CO2 concentration and multi-objective optimization of CO2 concentration and annual electricity consumption cost in residential buildings using …

M Baghoolizadeh, M Rostamzadeh-Renani… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental pollutants in the air have long been a great threat to the health and life of
human society and the volume of these pollutants is rapidly increasing. Human beings …

Field measurement and numerical investigation of natural cross-ventilation in high-rise buildings; Thermal comfort analysis

N Nasrollahi, P Ghobadi - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The importance of climate change mitigation and energy efficiency as a growing global
concern has intensified the development of techniques to reach and improve thermal …

An optimized solution for retrofitting building façades: Energy efficiency and cost-benefit analysis from a life cycle perspective

Q Tushar, G Zhang, MA Bhuiyan, F Giustozzi… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study aims to conduct a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for incremental
energy star ratings in Melbourne and Perth by upgrading the thermal performance of the …

Investigating the thermal performance of green wall: Experimental analysis, deep learning model, and simulation studies in a humid climate

AB Daemei, E Shafiee, AA Chitgar, S Asadi - Building and environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Covering buildings with vegetation systems has been a significant feature of architectural
design towards sustainability in recent years. This study reports an investigation on the …

Health and well-being benefits of outdoor and indoor vertical greening systems: a review

F Fonseca, M Paschoalino, L Silva - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Green spaces have become the most threatened by urban growth, and the decline in these
areas is a main cause of environmental and social problems with implications for human …

Efficient supply with carbon dioxide from flue gas during large scale production of microalgae: A novel approach for bioenergy facades

M Kerner, T Wolff, T Brinkmann - Bioresource Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The efficiency of using enriched CO 2 from flue gas for large scale production of the green
microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana in a bioenergy facade was studied. Using a membrane …

Hazardous elements in the soil of urban cemeteries; constructive solutions aimed at sustainability

A Neckel, C Korcelski, HA Kujawa, IS da Silva… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban cemeteries on a global scale raise concerns due to their potential to concentrate
differing levels of hazardous pollutants in their native soils due to the unnatural …

Comparative analysis of indoor air quality in offices with different ventilation mechanisms and simulation of ventilation process utilizing system dynamics tool

A Asif, M Zeeshan - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Keeping COVID-19 pandemic in perspective, good indoor air quality (IAQ) and adequate
ventilation are imperative to minimize risk of virus spread, besides other poor IAQ related …