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Sustainability and Wellness for Building Lighting and Ventilation

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 5771

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Carla Balocco

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Department of Architecture (DiDA), University of Florence, Via Mattonaia 14, Firenze, Italy
Interests: building physics and plant systems; wellbeing and indoor air quality; historical buildings and cultural heritage; natural and artificial lighting; solar radiation control; energy sustainability of building–plant system; nautral and controlled mechanical ventilation
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Leccese

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Lighting and Acoustic Laboratory, Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: energy performance of buildings; daylighting; natural ventilation of buildings; energy performance of lighting systems; quality of lighting and ergonomics of vision in the workstations of work; natural and artificial lighting in museums; lighting risk in the workplace and photobiological safety
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Prof. Dr. Giacomo Salvadori

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Building Services Laboratory, Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: building physics; indoor environmental quality; energy performance of lighting systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will be an important channel of information and research findings on energy sustainability, indoor air quality and wellbeing for newly designed, existing and historic buildings. Of particular interest are papers on recent development and application, but also refurbishment and retrofitting solutions, for sustainable lighting (natural and/or artificial) and effective/efficient natural and mechanical ventilation; control system and environmental monitoring, combined with simulations of building and plant-systems, thermal comfort, wellness and indoor air quality.

Prof. Dr. Carla Balocco
Prof. Dr. Francesco Leccese
Prof. Dr. Giacomo Salvadori
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable lighting
  • natural and mechanical ventilation
  • control system and environmental monitoring
  • energy performance and building-plant system simulation
  • environmental quality for newly designed, existing, historic buildings

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Contemporary Atrium Architecture: A Sustainable Approach to the Determination of Smoke Ventilation Criteria in the Event of a Fire
by Maria Brzezińska and Dorota Brzezińska
Energies 2022, 15(7), 2484; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15072484 - 28 Mar 2022
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Atria within buildings present an environment which allows smoke to spread around a building in a fire situation. This could create dangerous conditions for the evacuation of people. Smoke control ventilation systems in atria work in the case of a fire, keeping evacuation [...] Read more.
Atria within buildings present an environment which allows smoke to spread around a building in a fire situation. This could create dangerous conditions for the evacuation of people. Smoke control ventilation systems in atria work in the case of a fire, keeping evacuation routes available for people. They play a significant role in sustainable, holistic building fire strategies, and are most often designed following prescriptive requirements. However, contemporary, complex atria with additional architectural elements—such as transversal balconies—may not meet the standard approach, and require individual, performance-based research. This article proves a thesis that the atrium’s architecture can impact the effectiveness of smoke control systems, and suggests how to verify them based on CFD simulations. In the presented example, the authors suggest an improvement of people’s safety in a fire scenario by extending the preliminary smoke control system parameters, or by providing smoke curtains at additional levels of the atrium. Full article
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Development and Testing of a Modular Sunlight Transport System Employing Free-Form Mirrors
by Allen Jong-Woei Whang, Yi-Yung Chen, Min-Yih Leu, Wei-Chieh Tseng, Yu-Zheng Lin, Hao-Wen Chang, Chih-Hsien Tsai, Yu-Cheng Liang, Xin Zhang, Cheng-Tse Lin, Tzu-Chun Huang, Cheng-Ming Chang and Hsi-Chi Chen
Energies 2022, 15(2), 406; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15020406 - 6 Jan 2022
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The energy consumption of artificial lighting and its impacts on health have stimulated research into natural lighting systems. However, natural lighting system designs are mainly custom, making them costly and difficult to replicate. This study took an office space as a testing field [...] Read more.
The energy consumption of artificial lighting and its impacts on health have stimulated research into natural lighting systems. However, natural lighting system designs are mainly custom, making them costly and difficult to replicate. This study took an office space as a testing field in order to develop a highly adaptable and adjustable modular natural light illumination system. We divided the system into multiple module designs, demonstrated the use of simple development and fabrication processes and integrated a freeform reflector into the system. In creating a freeform mirror, the optical simulation results of the tested field were regressed (through polynomial regression) to achieve a uniformly illuminated plane, and a high-efficiency light-emitting system was produced. Finally, an active heliostat was used to collect sunlight, combined with actual manufacturing verification and measurement results, in order to create an excellent indoor lighting system. As a result, we presented a low-cost and easy-to-design natural light illumination system for the assisted lighting of office areas. Full article
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