Special Issue: Advances on Indoor Air Quality Systems for Healthy and Sustainable Buildings

Abstract

Abstract This special issue is an outcome of a Workshop “Impact of Sustainable Buildings in Arid Environment on the Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality,” held in Doha, Qatar, on May 17–19, 2022 with the participation of more than 50 experts in the field . We reported the highlights of the workshop in the February 2023 issue of this Journal [2]. There was a great response to the call for papers and eight manuscripts were accepted and selected for this Special Issue. These articles are authored by an outstanding roster of experts in their respective fields and tackle various research gaps that impact the quality of our indoor environments. The topics of this Special Issue spanned a large area that included the use of microchannels as a viable building insulation technique [3], enhancing the energy storage capabilities for solar-powered air conditioning systems [4], the impact of outdoor environment on the indoor air quality of commercial buildings using natural ventilation [5], utilizing machine learning for optimum manufacturing processes scheduling [6], utilizing a decision support tool for HAVC filters selection [7], Decarbonization through electrification [8] improving demand-response flexibilities in pharmaceutical buildings using optimization software, [9] and methodology for predicting the energy consumption of buildings using deep neural networks [10].