Academic buildings are the main gathering places in universities and colleges. The crowd flow could cause a change in environmental parameters of buildings. In other words, the change in environmental parameters in buildings can be somewhat reflective of the crowd flow. Therefore, field measurements of the crowd flow and environmental parameters in an academic building at a university were conducted in this study. During the periods of 7:30–8:00 and 13:20–13:50, the average speed of the crowd was the highest, which was about 1.2 m/s; the CO2 concentration was low, which was about 750 ppm. In the periods of 9:20–9:50 and 15:10–15:40, the average speed of people walking in the opposite directions was the lowest, which is 0.42 m/s; however, the CO2 concentration could reach 1800 ppm. Test results showed that the variations of CO2 concentrations were inversely related to the average speed of the crowd in the evacuation passage, except for the periods of 7:30–8:00 and 13:20–13:50. Spatial separation and physical separation could be used in the management of personnel flow in the academic building. The results may provide reference for the management of the crowd flow in similar academic buildings of other universities.

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The solar greenhouse is a passive agricultural facility building which can realize the anti-seasonal production. The main enclosure structure of solar greenhouse is composed of thermal insulation wall, thermal insulation roof and daylighting shed film. The transmittance of sunlight is an important index affecting the healthy growth of plants in solar greenhouse. After testing, the difference between the solar radiation intensity received through the greenhouse film and the outdoor solar radiation intensity during a day has large fluctuations. The reason for this phenomenon is that the humidity in the greenhouse is large, and there is condensation on the greenhouse film, which seriously affects the transmittance of sunlight. The dehumidification methods commonly used in solar greenhouses are summarized, and their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed in this paper. In addition, the problems existing in the current dehumidification methods are discussed. In view of the characteristics of the solar greenhouse that the high temperature needs ventilation and cooling during the day and the low temperature at night needs to supplement heat, a composite ventilation system with anti-condensation, heat storage, cooling and dehumidification is proposed, and its performance is analyzed.