Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic

Awada, Mohamad; Becerik-Gerber, Burçin; Hoque, Shamia; O’Neill, Zheng; Pedrielli, Giulia; Wen, Jin; Wu, Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107480

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“…Urban design will inevitably be affected by the current COVID 19 pandemic highlighting the need for scalable smart city solutions, emphasizing the importance of public health and safety and exposing the need to invest more in public health care and infrastructure in the built environment [57]. This study [38] shows that architecture and urbanism have a potential in epidemics control and prevention and can actively contribute to human health. The authors investigate links between the scale in the built environment, epidemiology, and proxemics, as well as between population density and mortality rates.…”

Section: Green Housingmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Extreme events, a global pandemic among them, call to provide occupants, facility managers and designers with pragmatic guidance on ways to mitigate health risks in buildings. This research gives answers to ten questions related to the effects of buildings on occupant health and can serve as a basis for future work offering insights for new lines of research and discoveries [38].…”

Section: Necessary Changes In Built Environment During the Pandemic Towards Sustainable Livingmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…An analysis of occupant health in buildings by Awada et.al [38], covering both normal times and extreme events, the COVID-19 pandemic among them, shows that undermined Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) may expose occupants to a higher risk of catching many diseases exacerbated by both economic and social forces. The estimated annual cost linked to sick building syndrome in commercial workplaces is between $10 billion and $70 billion in the United States alone.…”

Section: Green Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An interdisciplinary approach may help, and common standards and frameworks should be established with occupants rather than the building as the main focus. We should find ways to design buildings that support health and happiness [38].…”

Section: Green Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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COVID-19 and Green Housing: A Review of Relevant Literature

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This review presents an analysis of three hypotheses. The articles provide a specific perspective on green housing before, during, and post COVID-19. The validations of these hypotheses were performed by analyzing the scientific literature worldwide and by adding a statistical analysis of appropriate articles from the Scopus database. The purpose of this review is to overview the research written on housing developments during the upsurge of COVID-19 along with the responses from the green building sector, because this field appears to be rapidly emerging by the sheer volume of research studies currently undertaken. Foremost peer-reviewed journals covering construction, urban studies‎, real estate, energy, civil engineering, buildings, indoor air, management, economics‎, business‎, environmental studies,‎ and environmental sciences‎ that were published last year were selected for review. The review was conducted by applying a combination of various keywords and the criteria for paper selection, including sustainable building, green construction, green building, resource-efficient, a building’s lifecycle, COVID-19, energy, water, consumption, health effects, comfort, occupant behaviors, policy, economy, Industry 5.0, energy-efficient retrofitting, and profit. Two, innovative elements in this study stand out when comparing it with the most advanced research on green housing before, during, and after COVID-19. The first innovation relates to the integrated analyses of COVID-19 pandemic, housing policies of countries and cities pertinent to COVID-19 that impact green housing and the wellbeing of their residents as well as the impact made by residents and a housing policy on the dispersion of COVID-19. This research additionally establishes that a green building analysis is markedly more effective when the analysis comprehensively covers the life process of a green building, the participating interest groups that have their own goals they wish to implement, the COVID-19 situation, and the external micro- and macro-level environments as a singular entity.

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Section: Green Housingmentioning

confidence: 82%

Section: Necessary Changes In Built Environment During the Pandemic Towards Sustainable Livingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Green Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Green Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Spending more time inside and in poor housing conditions also affect the lives of disadvantaged populations in a number of other ways . Low quality buildings perform poorly on temperature and humidity control, which can result in a room climate that is either too cold and damp, or too hot, associated with higher incidence of respiratory problems (Awada et al, 2021).…”

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Deprivations and Inequities in Cities Viewed Through a Pandemic Lens

Boza-Kiss

Pachauri

Zimm

2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought a halt to life as we knew it in our cities. It has also put a magnifying glass on existing inequalities and poverty. While everyone has been facing the pandemic's risks, the lived challenges of the lockdowns have been felt most acutely by the poor, the vulnerable, those in the informal sector, and without savings and safety nets. Here, we identify three ways that the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures have exacerbated urban inequalities and how subsequent recovery measures and policy responses have tried to redress these. First, lockdowns amplified urban energy poverty, while recovery measures and policies offer an opportunity to address entrenched inequalities in shelter and energy access. Second, preexisting digital divides even within well-connected cities have translated into inequalities in preparedness for living through the lockdown, but digitalization strategies can enhance equity in access to e-services, online work and education for all in the future. Third, slum dwellers in the world's cities have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic and lockdown measures, but the spotlight on them provides further impetus for slum upgradation efforts that through improved access to infrastructure can improve living conditions and provide more secure livelihoods.

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Filling the Health Gap in Energy Performance Certificates to Reduce Pulmonary Diseases Due to Bad Indoor Air Quality

Reis

Dias

Tavares

2022

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 181 publications

References 108 publications

COVID-19 and Green Housing: A Review of Relevant Literature

COVID-19 and Green Housing: A Review of Relevant Literature

Deprivations and Inequities in Cities Viewed Through a Pandemic Lens

Filling the Health Gap in Energy Performance Certificates to Reduce Pulmonary Diseases Due to Bad Indoor Air Quality

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