Building Simulation

ISSN 1996-3599 e-ISSN 1996-8744 CN 10-1106/TU
Editor-in-Chief: Da Yan
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on COVID-19 Prevention and Control in the Built Environment with Low Resource Consumption

Dear Colleagues,

The built environment is a collection of man-made and man-occupied environments, ranging from public transports, buildings, to neighborhoods and cities. Most of COVID-19 infections occurred in the built environment due to high population density, frequent close contact, and potential poor ventilation. In the process of coping with the transmission, resource waste (e.g., energy consumption) is inevitable, especially when constant and unsustainable interventions are applied in all scenarios with distinctive transmission routes, human behaviors, and environmental parameters. The rapid spread of variant virus of SARS-CoV-2 (e.g., omicron) has already demonstrated the great challenge to control the COVID-19 transmission with low resource consumption. One of the key solutions is to develop accurate strategies on COVID-19 prevention and control based on the function of the building, environmental parameters, human behavior, personal attribute (e.g., occupation), and main transmission routes. New digital technology could be used to help capturing needed data and thus to assist formulating advanced interventions.

In addition to traditional interventions, such as social distancing, mask wearing, vaccination, ventilation, and purification, accurate and targeted interventions with low resource consumption for a specific built environment or occupation should be developed for infection risk reduction and sustainable development of cities and society. A special issue, entitled “COVID-19 Prevention and Control in the Built Environment with Low Resource Consumption”, was proposed for Building Simulation, which is indexed in Science Citation Index and Scopus. The special issue aims to collect scientific articles that document specific resource-saving interventions for different types of built environment as well as the theories in supporting their formulation. The goal is to provide ideas and solutions for an improved control of COVID-19 with the lowest resources. In this regard, we welcome topics including but not limited to:

  • Possible/main transmission routes
  • Specific strategies on COVID-19 prevention and control in different built environment
  • Indoor human behavior facing COVID-19 transmission
  • Building energy efficiency under the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Digital technology for COVID-19 prevention and control
  • Dynamic interventions
  • Exposure and evaluation
  • Monitoring and surveillance
  • Source control of the infected
  • Personal protection of the susceptible

Papers selected for this special issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure before being rapidly and widely disseminated.

We sincerely invite you to submit your original work to this topical issue and are looking forward to sharing your outstanding research outcomes with the peers around the world.

Paper submissions: When preparing your manuscript, please follow the Instructions for Authors of Building Simulation, which can be downloaded from the journal website (www.springer.com/journal/12273).

Submit your paper online at www.editorialmanager.com/buil and mark Special issue on COVID-19 Prevention and Control in the Built Environment with Low Resource Consumption” in your manuscript.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline of full papers: October 30, 2022
Completion of the first-round review: January 15, 2023
Submission deadline of revised papers: March 1, 2023
Final notification: April 15, 2023
Issue published: May 2023

Co-guest Editors:

Nan Zhang, Beijing University of Technology, China.
E-mail: zhangn@bjut.edu.cn

Zhengtao AiHunan University, China.
E-mail: zhengtaoai@hnu.edu.cn

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