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Camacho-Montano, S C, Cook, M and Wagner, A (2020) Avoiding overheating in existing school buildings through optimized passive measures. Building Research & Information, 48(04), 349–63.

Fosas, D, Moran, F, Natarajan, S, Orr, J and Coley, D (2020) The importance of thermal modelling and prototyping in shelter design. Building Research & Information, 48(04), 379–400.

Ibrahim, A, Ali, H, Abuhendi, F and Jaradat, S (2020) Thermal seasonal variation and occupants’ spatial behaviour in domestic spaces. Building Research & Information, 48(04), 364–78.

Li, W, Zhang, Y, Lu, D and Augenbroe, G (2020) Quantification methods of natural ventilated building performance in preliminary design. Building Research & Information, 48(04), 401–14.

Resalati, S, Kendrick, C C and Hill, C (2020) Embodied energy data implications for optimal specification of building envelopes. Building Research & Information, 48(04), 429–45.

Rohde, L, Steen Larsen, T, Jensen, R L, Larsen, O K, Jønsson, K T and Loukou, E (2020) Determining indoor environmental criteria weights through expert panels and surveys. Building Research & Information, 48(04), 415–28.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Indoor environmental quality; dwelling; comfort; health; multiple-attribute decision-making; AHP;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0961-3218
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2019.1655630
  • Abstract:
    A growing focus on occupant comfort, health and wellbeing has resulted in attempts to quantify indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and to determine the relative contributions of single IEQ aspects to an overall IEQ index. The recently developed IV20 tool assesses potential IEQ to label overall IEQ, and assign separate scores for the main indoor environment (IE) areas: thermal, visual, acoustic and air quality. In the absence of objective, universally applicable IEQ weights, this paper develops and executes a methodology asking regional experts with different backgrounds to make relative comparisons between related IE aspects. The authors hypothesize that wide-ranging subjective evaluations can be combined into useful relative weights (best operational solution based on the current status of IE literature).

    This paper presents results from an IE expert survey on relative IE aspect weights using simple percentile prioritization and the Analytic Hierarchy Process pairwise comparison. Results are compared to expert panel judgements to ensure validity. The advantages of this combined weight determination method are (1) that the expert survey ensures a broad spectrum of opinions and allows for input from different built environment disciplines, and (2) that the expert panel has tool-specific insight, methodology awareness and state of the art knowledge.

Sayın, S and Çelebi, G (2020) A practical approach to performance-based building design in architectural project. Building Research & Information, 48(04), 446–68.