Development of a Healthy Assessment System For Residential Building Epidemic Prevention

Abstract

During the period of COVID-19, the number of residents infected in urban communities continued to rise, implying that most of the current building layouts can't effectively resist the spread of infectious diseases, and the outbreak of COVID-19 has led to the need of changes for the current building environment. Therefore, the epidemic prevention should be considered in the residential building design, and the health design of residential community should be carried out from the perspective of epidemic prevention. In order to improve the ability of epidemic prevention of residential buildings and deal with the sudden pandemic and influenza in the post-epidemic era, a Healthy Assessment System for Residential Building Epidemic Prevention ( HASRBEP ) was developed according to the epidemic impact on residential buildings, the design and measures of epidemic prevention for residential buildings and the Chinese Assessment standard for healthy building (T/ASC 02–2016) . Both entropy weight method and expert scoring method were used to determine the specific weight of the index. The HASRBEP includes control item assessment, preliminary assessment and extension assessment. The newly developed HASRBEP was used to assess the residential buildings of the Yulongzhuang Building Community located in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. The results show that the HASRBEP can be used to guide the health and epidemic prevention design of residential buildings.

COVID-19 and City Space: Impact and Perspectives

“…In the literature, flexibility [134] and the applied principles for healthy, safe, and sustainable [135,136] building design have become the key general qualities of virus-resilient built space. At the same time, several international systems for the assessment of the 'immunity' of buildings towards infectious diseases, e.g., [137,138], are being developed.…”

Standards and Problems for Epidemic Prevention in Buildings: A Systemic Review

“…Assessment standard for healthy building Ventilation, air conditioning, entrance, sunshine Guidelines for epidemic prevention design and safety guarantee of indoor air environment in public and residential buildings (Trial) Regretfully, after the outbreak of the epidemic, various countries issued various standards for epidemic prevention measures to deal with COVID-19, but these standards are all in the late stage of control after the outbreak. So far, there is still a lack of building standards for epidemic disasters, and there is no complete epidemic prevention design standard of building around the world, and no early control method to reduce the transmission risk of infectious sources from the building level [3] .…”

“…Buildings are gradually becoming the source of epidemic infection with the greatest risk, such as COVID-19, and therefore an important battlefield for epidemic prevention [3] . However at present, the government and medical personnel are the main forces formulating anti-epidemic systems and implementing anti-epidemic measures, and most of the epidemic is transmitted in closed places such as offices, meeting rooms, vehicles and schools [4] .…”

Does Livelihood Capital Influence the Livelihood Strategy of Herdsmen? Evidence from Western China

“…In this study, annual betrothal gifts expenditure and social expenses, number of close relatives, and level of trust were used to measure social capital. After obtaining the judgment matrix from the "Expert Scoring Method", the weights of indexes were then calculated using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the entropy method; the detailed steps are shown in Section 3.2 [21,[63][64][65]. The index system is as specified in Table 1.…”

“…The hierarchical entropy analysis method was adopted. The steps are as follows: Firstly, according to the "Expert Scoring Method", two kinds of experts were recruited: agricultural economy scholars familiar with the research areas and the local official and government department staffs from the research areas [63][64][65][66]. These experts were invited to assign values to each indicator based on experience.…”