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Subject Areas
These will include, but not be limited to:
- Indoor environment (IE)
- Climate and surrounding environment (SE)
- Building envelopes/enclosures (BE)
- HVAC equipments and systems (HES)
- Power and energy systems (PES)
- Sensors, controls and information management (SCIM)
- Building system integration and optimization (BSIO)
- Modeling and simulation tools and testbeds (MSTT)
- Sustainable building systems (SBS)
- Safe buildings (SB)
Examples of specific subjects are listed as follows:
- Indoor environment (IE):
- thermal, acoustical, lighting and air quality;
- desirable and thresholds vs. actual (historical, benchmarking and comprehensive surveys);
- individual and combined effects of IE factors;
- personalized vs. shared IE;
- subjective evaluation vs. physical measurements;
- pollutant sources, sinks and transport;
- indoor air and surface chemistry;
- airborne infectious diseases transmission, control and mitigation
- Climate and surrounding environment (SE):
- temporal and spatial variations; solar gain and shading;
- site planning;
- airflow and pressure differentials;
- pollutant and moisture transport;
- pollutant transformation (e.g., change of pollutant composition or particle size distributions).
- Building envelopes/enclosures (BE):
- dynamic walls (e.g., double-façade);
- hygrothermal performance;
- air barriers for leakage and moisture control;
- controllable natural ventilation; natural lighting vs. thermal mass utilization;
- integration with HVAC system.
- HVAC equipments and systems (HES):
- heat and energy recovery ventilator;
- demand-based ventilation and economizer control;
- dehumidification and air conditioning;
- air cleaning and filtration;
- fault detection and diagnosis;
- personal ventilation and coordination with shared HVAC systems;
- data center cooling and pollution control.
- Power and energy systems (PES):
- combined heating, cooling and power;
- integration of wind turbines in building systems;
- energy planning and management.
- Sensors, controls and information management (SCIM):
- low-cost sensors; “virtual sensors”;
- building energy management;
- whole building system commissioning and diagnosis;
- sensor networks and intelligent controls.
- Building system integration and optimization (BSIO):
- integrated design;
- integrated building envelope and HVAC systems;
- integration of passive technologies with mechanical systems;
- tradeoff between multiple IE factors;
- optimization of IEQ and energy efficiency;
- integration of source control, ventilation and air cleaning.
- Modeling and simulation tools and testbeds (MSTT):
- coupled and decoupled heat, air, moisture and pollutant transport;
- combined and separated IEQ and energy simulations;
- novel building system testbeds;
- building information models and databases.
- Sustainable building systems (SBS):
- life-cycle analysis; energy, environmental and societal impacts.
- Safe buildings (SB):
- pollutant detection, containment, mitigation; evacuation planning.
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