About this journal

Aims & Scope:

Science and Technology for the Built Environment, ASHRAE's archival research publication offers comprehensive reporting of original research in science and technology related to the stationary and mobile built environment, including

• Indoor environmental quality, occupant health, comfort, and productivity
• Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) and related technologies
• Thermodynamic and energy system dynamics, controls, optimization, fault detection and diagnosis, smart systems, and building demand-side management
• Experiments and analysis related to material properties, underlying thermodynamics, refrigerants, fluid dynamics, airflow, and heat and mass transfer
• Renewable and traditional energy systems and related processes and concepts
• Integrated built environmental system design approaches and tools
• Novel simulation approaches and algorithms and validated simulations
• Building enclosure materials, assemblies, and systems for minimizing and/or regulating space heating and cooling modes
• Review articles that critically assess existing literature and point out future research directions

Only works reporting on research that is original and of lasting value are accepted for publication. This journal is included in the Web of Science and Current Contents Connect databases. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Science and Technology for the Built Environment is published by Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of ASHRAE, a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment. Science and Technology for the Built Environment is available online, as a printed volume published twice a year and through "Open Select" offered by Taylor & Francis. ASHRAE and Taylor and Francis aim to expand the global reach and readership, to achieve the highest possible levels of accessibility through rapid review and publication process, and to improve access to previously published articles.

Publication Office: Taylor & Francis Group, 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

JEFFREY D. SPITLER, PhD Regents Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK, USA

MANAGING EDITOR

RANDIE POTTS, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

LIAM O'BRIEN, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
RICHARD de DEAR, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
JIE CAI, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
KRISTEN CETIN, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
BRIAN FRONK, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, US
SAQIB JAVED, PhD, Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
YONG CHAN KIM, PhD, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
CLAYTON MILLER,PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of the Built Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore
ZHENG O'NEILL, PhD, J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
RAJAN RAWAL,PhD, Building Energy Performance, Faculty of Technology, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
JØRN TOFTUM, PhD, Associate Professor, International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
SHENGWEI WANG, PhD, Chair Professor, Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
BIN YANG,PhD, Professor, School of Energy and Safety Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin, China
JOHN ZHAI, PhD, Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder. CO, USA
JIANSHUN "JENSEN" ZHANG, PhD, Professor and Director, Building Energy & Environmental Systems Laboratory (BEESL), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
CLAUDIO ZILIO, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

REVIEWER BOARD

AHMAD ABBAS, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan
PHILIP R. AGEE, PH.D, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
VIKRANT C. AUTE, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
CHRISTIAN K. BACH, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
MARIYA P. BIVOLAROVA, International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Environment, Technical University of Denmark
CRAIG R. BRADSHAW, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
JAYSON BURSILL, Delta Controls Inc., Canada
JIE CAI, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
SHANSHAN CAI, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
BIN CAO, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
YIMIN CHEN, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
MASSIMO CIMMINO, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
MOSHOOD O. FADEYI, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
CHENG FAN, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, China
VICTOR FRANSSON, Division of Building Services, Department of Building- and Environmental Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden
BRIAN M. FRONK, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
YANGYANG FU, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
WENJIE GANG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
ZHI GAO, Ph.D, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
HUA GE, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
SARA GILANI, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BURAK GUNAY, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
AKRAM ABDUL HAMID, Division of Building Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
MAOMAO HU, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
ONGUN BERK KAZANCI, International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
JAE-WEON JEONG, Professor of Department of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
MICHAEL G. KENT, Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore, Singapore
MENG KONG, Well Living Lab, Rochester, MN, USA
HOSEONG LEE, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
HANGXIN LI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
FANG LIU, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, Shangdong, China
XIAOBING LIU, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
MATT S. MITCHELL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
MOHAMED OUF, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
LONG T. PHAN, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
JINGJING PEI, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
MOHAMMAD REZA SAFAEI, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
OMER SARFRAZ, Johnson Controls, York, Pa, USA
JIALEI SHEN, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
ANDREW SOMMERS, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
RUI TANG, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
DESPOINA TELI, Division of Building Services Engineering, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
MARIANNE F. TOUCHIE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DR. XIN ZHANG, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
ADAM WILLS, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

POLICY COMMITTEE

BLAKE ELLIS , PE, Fellow ASHRAE, Chair
TIMOTHY C. DWYER, CEng, Fellow ASHRAE
CAREY J. SIMONSON, PhD, Fellow ASHRAE
JEFFREY D. SPITLER, PhD, Fellow ASHRAE
MARK OWEN, Member ASHRAE

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Modeling infection risk and energy use of upper-room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation systems in multi-room environments
• Predictive controls, modeling, and technology assessment for high-performance buildings