Ventilation strategies and design impacts on indoor airborne transmission: A review

N Izadyar, W Miller - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the indoor airborne transmission issue to the forefront.
Although ventilation systems provide clean air and dilute indoor contaminated air, there is …

[HTML][HTML] A review on indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19–modelling and mitigation approaches

S Rayegan, C Shu, J Berquist, J Jeon, LG Zhou… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past few years, significant efforts have been made to investigate the transmission of
COVID-19. This paper provides a review of the COVID-19 airborne transmission modeling …

Review of infiltration and airflow models in building energy simulations for providing guidelines to building energy modelers

K Choi, S Park, J Joe, SI Kim, JH Jo, EJ Kim… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The impact of the infiltration and airflow pattern of the building envelope and structure on
thermal load is significant. Building energy simulation tools take this feature into account …

Evaluating SARS‐CoV‐2 airborne quanta transmission and exposure risk in a mechanically ventilated multizone office building

S Yan, LL Wang, MJ Birnkrant, J Zhai, SL Miller - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The world has faced tremendous challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020,
and effective clean air strategies that mitigate infectious risks indoors have become more …

[HTML][HTML] Visualization of the infection risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 through aerosol and surface transmission in a negative-pressure ward

W Guo, Y Fu, R Jia, Z Guo, C Su, J Li, X Zhao… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since December 2019, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a great challenge to the world's public …

Transmission probability of SARS-CoV-2 in office environment using artificial neural network

NR Kapoor, A Kumar, A Kumar, A Kumar… - Ieee …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, curve-fitting and an artificial neural network (ANN) model were developed to
predict R-Event. Expected number of new infections that arise in any event occurring over a …

An overview of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and engineering strategies to mitigate risk

BF Leo, CY Lin, K Markandan, LH Saw… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected every aspect of our lives. To
date, experts have acknowledged that airborne transmission is a key piece of the SARS …

Event-specific transmission forecasting of SARS-CoV-2 in a mixed-mode ventilated office room using an ANN

NR Kapoor, A Kumar, A Kumar, DA Zebari… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The emerging novel variants and re-merging old variants of SARS-CoV-2 make it critical to
study the transmission probability in mixed-mode ventilated office environments. Artificial …

[HTML][HTML] Multizone modeling of airborne SARS-CoV-2 quanta transmission and infection mitigation strategies in office, hotel, retail, and school buildings

S Yan, LL Wang, MJ Birnkrant, ZJ Zhai, SL Miller - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 mostly occurs indoors, and effective mitigation
strategies for specific building types are needed. Most guidance provided during the …

A review of facilities management interventions to mitigate respiratory infections in existing buildings

Y Zhang, FKP Hui, C Duffield, AM Saeed - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The Covid-19 pandemic reveals that the hazard of the respiratory virus was a secondary
consideration in the design, development, construction, and management of public and …