Fung, Siu-Fung;
Doda, Volkan;
Korolija, Ivan;
Mumovic, Dejan;
(2025)
Health impact and building performance coupling: a virtual testbed for health-centric building system operation.
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Proceedings of Building Simulation 2025: 19th Conference of IBPSA.
(pp. pp. 1-8).
IBPSA: Brisbane, Australia.
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Abstract
Particulate matters (PM) adversely impact air quality in built environment and result in global burden of diseases, in terms of Disability-adjusted Life Year (DALY) lost. The use of active and passive building system could mitigate such indoor air quality (IAQ) issue by controlling the contaminant concentration in a building zone. However, the existing environmental design and operation practices are based on dynamic thermal simulation, which simulate building performance through building heat balances without considering the epidemiological consequence of pollutant’s intake. This paper proposes a workflow to couple chronic health impact model to EnergyPlus simulation runtime, which enable the evaluation of building performance from a health viewpoint. DALY lost of notional non-domestic buildings in UK are evaluated and hence optimal control rules are recommended. The workflow can benefit built environment professionals and other stakeholders to achieve health-centric building system operation.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Health impact and building performance coupling: a virtual testbed for health-centric building system operation |
| Event: | Building Simulation 2025: 19th Conference of IBPSA |
| Location: | Brisbane, Australia |
| Dates: | 24 Aug 2025 - 27 Aug 2025 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-7750520-4-3 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.26868/25222708.2025.1367 |
| Publisher version: | https://publications.ibpsa.org/conference/paper/?i... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Particulate matter, Disability-adjusted life year, Indoor air quality, Health impact modelling, Coupling |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217774 |
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