ISSN (print): 0378-7788
ISSN (online): 1872-6178
Call of the Journal:
Feb
2021
Apr
2021
May
2021
Children and young adults spend more time in schools and educational buildings than in any other place, except at home. Classrooms are the place for pupils and students to learn and get educated. It is known for some time that unsatisfactory environmental conditions can have both short-term and long-term health effects, and can affect productivity or learning ability of pupils and students. In the last decades, many studies all over the world have been performed to document the indoor environment in classrooms and to examine relations with diseases and disorders. At the same time, energy efficiency strategies and climate actions seeking for zero greenhouse gas emission, are introduced. It is questioned whether the design and/or retrofit of highly sustainable educational buildings might introduce even more problems with health and comfort of its main occupants. The main aim of this Special Issue is to study both IEQ and energy of new, retrofitted and existing educational buildings to shed light on the interrelations between health of pupils and students and energy efficiency strategies in different parts of the world.
NetherlandsIEQ and Energy in Educational Buildings
Children and young adults spend more time in schools and educational buildings than in any other place, except at home. Classrooms are the place for pupils and students to learn and get educated. It is known for some time that unsatisfactory environmental conditions can have both short-term and long-term health effects, and can affect productivity or learning ability of pupils and students. In the last decades, many studies all over the world have been performed to document the indoor environment in classrooms and to examine relations with diseases and disorders. At the same time, energy efficiency strategies and climate actions seeking for zero greenhouse gas emission, are introduced. It is questioned whether the design and/or retrofit of highly sustainable educational buildings might introduce even more problems with health and comfort of its main occupants. The main aim of this Special Issue is to study both IEQ and energy of new, retrofitted and existing educational buildings to shed light on the interrelations between health of pupils and students and energy efficiency strategies in different parts of the world.
Compendex; Architectural Periodicals Index; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Current Contents – Engineering, Computing & Technology; Current Energy Information; Energy Abstracts; EIC/Intelligence (Energy Index); Environmental Periodicals Bibliography; Focus On: Global Change; Fuel and Energy Abstracts; INSPEC; International Building Services Abstracts; Sage Urban Studies Abstracts; Referativnyi Zhurnal VINTI-RAN (Russian Academy of Sciences); Scopus; Science Citation Index Expanded.
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Guest Editors
Prof. dr. Philomena M. Bluyssen
Prof. dr. Maureen Trebilcock