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Building and environment has continued to improve in all dimensions
Building and Environment 59 (2013) iii–iv
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Letter from the Editor
Building and environment has continued to improve in all dimensions
Year 2012 is again an excellent year for Building and Environment. The journal has continued improving in all dimensions, including paper quality, review quality, satisfaction factors of the authors, review time, editorial time, production time, and journal impact factor. Paper submissions to the journal have also been further increased. Everyone associated with the journal seems busier. I would like to thank everyone, especially our reviewers who helped me complete on time their quality reviews and the Associate Editors who took a higher load than ever in helping me! As the Editor-in-Chief, I can do very little for the journal. The collective effort from the authors, reviewers, editorial board members, associate editors, journal manager and publisher et al. made the successes. You have made Building and Environment a great journal and the journal would definitely like to serve you better in the future. I am very happy to announce that the following three distinguished colleagues have agreed to serve in the Editorial Board of Building and Environment: Dr. Bert Blocken is the Professor of Building and Urban Physics at the Unit Building Physics and Services (BPS) at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research focuses mainly on numerical modeling of micro-scale wind flow and the related processes in the urban environment, including micro-scale air pollutant dispersion, micro-scale hydrology, pedestrian wind comfort, urban heat transfer, etc. Professor Blocken has published 75 papers on these topics in international journals. He has received several national and international awards, including a best-lecturer award at Eindhoven University, five best paper awards and a top-cited author award. He is currently supervising a team of 11 PhD and 11 MSc students. Dr. Richard Corsi is the ECH Bantel Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. His research focuses on sources of indoor air pollution, the physics and chemistry of indoor air, human exposure to indoor air pollutants, and control of indoor pollutants. Dr. Corsi has served as principal investigator on over 70 research projects totaling approximately $12 million, and ranging from the sorptive interactions between polar/nonpolar VOCs and indoor materials, homogeneous indoor air chemistry and secondary aerosol formation, and heterogeneous chemistry at and within indoor materials. Dr. Corsi has served as major advisor to over 70 graduate students and 45 undergraduate students. He and his students have published
0360-1323/$ – see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0360-1323(12)00294-6
over 300 journal and conference papers, reports, and book chapters, and have been featured on many national and international television series and radio stations. Dr. Corsi has received numerous awards for teaching and commitment to students, and recently received the Senate of College Councils Professor of the Month (November) for the entire University of Texas at Austin campus. Dr. Jelena Srebric is a Professor of Architectural Engineering and Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University in the United States. She is the director of the Building Science Group that focuses on research and technology transfer of engineering solutions for reduced energy consumption, and enhanced occupant environmental perceptions at the neighborhood scale with direct implications for the urban scale energy balance. Dr. Srebric manages several million dollars in research funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ASHRAE, NIOSH and the building industry. She has published over 40 journal papers and book chapters on subjects related to Building and Environment. Her research work has impacted an entire branch of research organizations and industry by developing simulation tools for design of built environments. She is a recipient of both NSF and NIOSH’s career awards and the Yaglou Award from the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences. The expertise of the three new board members will further strengthen the needs of the journal in covering emerging areas. The journal is committed to serve the community better by adding editorial board members who have conducted high impact research within the scope of Building and Environment, are recognized and respected by their peers, and are willing to devote their energy for serving the community. It is also time for me to announce “2012 Best Paper Awards” from Building and Environment. Since 2008, the journal has made annually three best papers awards and one best paper award for the first author who is younger than 35 years old. The awards are given to top papers for their originality, contributions to the field, quality of presentation, and soundness of the science. Those papers were first ranked highly by the reviewers. The papers were further reviewed by the Editorial Board of this journal. Finally, the Best Paper Award Committee of this journal selected the awardees. This year, the Best Paper Award Committee consisted of Professor Hazim Awbi of The University of Reading in the United Kingdom (chair), Professor Leon Glicksman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the
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United States, and Professor Yingxin Zhu of Tsinghua University in China. All of them are current Editorial Board members. They have worked very hard to identify the following best papers from a very competitive pool of candidates. I would like to thank the Best Paper Award Committee, the Editorial Board, and numerous reviewers for their hard work in making the awards possible. The 2012 Best Paper Awards from Building and Environments go to:
Mr. Wout Parys was selected to receive the 2012 Best Paper Award for a Young Author for authoring the following paper:
R. Ramponi, B. Blocken, “CFD simulation of cross-ventilation for a generic isolated building: Impact of computational parameters”, Building and Environment, Volume 53, July 2012, Pages 34–48 S. Yin, G.N. Sze-To, Christopher Y.H. Chao, “Retrospective analysis of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis outbreak during a flight using computational fluid dynamics and infection risk assessment”, Building and Environment, Volume 47, January 2012, Pages 50–57 Chun Chen, Bin Zhao, Wanting Zhou, Xinyi Jiang, Zhongchao Tan, “A methodology for predicting particle penetration factor through cracks of windows and doors for actual engineering application”, Building and Environment, Volume 47, January 2012, Pages 339–348
I would like to congratulate those authors for their achievements! It is very amazing that this is the third time for Professor Blocken to receive the great honor from this journal. I am very impressed by the top-quality work conducted by his team. The publisher of this journal has agreed that all the papers received the award this year will be available for free access for a period of time. I hope that you will enjoy the convenience in reading the top quality papers from
Wout Parys, Hilde Breesch, Hugo Hens, and Dirk Saelens, “Feasibility assessment of passive cooling for office buildings in a temperate climate through uncertainty analysis”, Building and Environment, Volume 56, October 2012, Pages 95–107
Qingyan “Yan” Chen, Editor-in-Chief Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Building and Environment journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/buildenv
Letter from the Editor
Building and environment has continued to improve in all dimensions
Year 2012 is again an excellent year for Building and Environment. The journal has continued improving in all dimensions, including paper quality, review quality, satisfaction factors of the authors, review time, editorial time, production time, and journal impact factor. Paper submissions to the journal have also been further increased. Everyone associated with the journal seems busier. I would like to thank everyone, especially our reviewers who helped me complete on time their quality reviews and the Associate Editors who took a higher load than ever in helping me! As the Editor-in-Chief, I can do very little for the journal. The collective effort from the authors, reviewers, editorial board members, associate editors, journal manager and publisher et al. made the successes. You have made Building and Environment a great journal and the journal would definitely like to serve you better in the future. I am very happy to announce that the following three distinguished colleagues have agreed to serve in the Editorial Board of Building and Environment: Dr. Bert Blocken is the Professor of Building and Urban Physics at the Unit Building Physics and Services (BPS) at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research focuses mainly on numerical modeling of micro-scale wind flow and the related processes in the urban environment, including micro-scale air pollutant dispersion, micro-scale hydrology, pedestrian wind comfort, urban heat transfer, etc. Professor Blocken has published 75 papers on these topics in international journals. He has received several national and international awards, including a best-lecturer award at Eindhoven University, five best paper awards and a top-cited author award. He is currently supervising a team of 11 PhD and 11 MSc students. Dr. Richard Corsi is the ECH Bantel Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. His research focuses on sources of indoor air pollution, the physics and chemistry of indoor air, human exposure to indoor air pollutants, and control of indoor pollutants. Dr. Corsi has served as principal investigator on over 70 research projects totaling approximately $12 million, and ranging from the sorptive interactions between polar/nonpolar VOCs and indoor materials, homogeneous indoor air chemistry and secondary aerosol formation, and heterogeneous chemistry at and within indoor materials. Dr. Corsi has served as major advisor to over 70 graduate students and 45 undergraduate students. He and his students have published
0360-1323/$ – see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0360-1323(12)00294-6
over 300 journal and conference papers, reports, and book chapters, and have been featured on many national and international television series and radio stations. Dr. Corsi has received numerous awards for teaching and commitment to students, and recently received the Senate of College Councils Professor of the Month (November) for the entire University of Texas at Austin campus. Dr. Jelena Srebric is a Professor of Architectural Engineering and Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University in the United States. She is the director of the Building Science Group that focuses on research and technology transfer of engineering solutions for reduced energy consumption, and enhanced occupant environmental perceptions at the neighborhood scale with direct implications for the urban scale energy balance. Dr. Srebric manages several million dollars in research funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ASHRAE, NIOSH and the building industry. She has published over 40 journal papers and book chapters on subjects related to Building and Environment. Her research work has impacted an entire branch of research organizations and industry by developing simulation tools for design of built environments. She is a recipient of both NSF and NIOSH’s career awards and the Yaglou Award from the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences. The expertise of the three new board members will further strengthen the needs of the journal in covering emerging areas. The journal is committed to serve the community better by adding editorial board members who have conducted high impact research within the scope of Building and Environment, are recognized and respected by their peers, and are willing to devote their energy for serving the community. It is also time for me to announce “2012 Best Paper Awards” from Building and Environment. Since 2008, the journal has made annually three best papers awards and one best paper award for the first author who is younger than 35 years old. The awards are given to top papers for their originality, contributions to the field, quality of presentation, and soundness of the science. Those papers were first ranked highly by the reviewers. The papers were further reviewed by the Editorial Board of this journal. Finally, the Best Paper Award Committee of this journal selected the awardees. This year, the Best Paper Award Committee consisted of Professor Hazim Awbi of The University of Reading in the United Kingdom (chair), Professor Leon Glicksman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the
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Letter from the Editor / Building and Environment 59 (2013) iii–iv
United States, and Professor Yingxin Zhu of Tsinghua University in China. All of them are current Editorial Board members. They have worked very hard to identify the following best papers from a very competitive pool of candidates. I would like to thank the Best Paper Award Committee, the Editorial Board, and numerous reviewers for their hard work in making the awards possible. The 2012 Best Paper Awards from Building and Environments go to:
Mr. Wout Parys was selected to receive the 2012 Best Paper Award for a Young Author for authoring the following paper:
R. Ramponi, B. Blocken, “CFD simulation of cross-ventilation for a generic isolated building: Impact of computational parameters”, Building and Environment, Volume 53, July 2012, Pages 34–48 S. Yin, G.N. Sze-To, Christopher Y.H. Chao, “Retrospective analysis of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis outbreak during a flight using computational fluid dynamics and infection risk assessment”, Building and Environment, Volume 47, January 2012, Pages 50–57 Chun Chen, Bin Zhao, Wanting Zhou, Xinyi Jiang, Zhongchao Tan, “A methodology for predicting particle penetration factor through cracks of windows and doors for actual engineering application”, Building and Environment, Volume 47, January 2012, Pages 339–348
I would like to congratulate those authors for their achievements! It is very amazing that this is the third time for Professor Blocken to receive the great honor from this journal. I am very impressed by the top-quality work conducted by his team. The publisher of this journal has agreed that all the papers received the award this year will be available for free access for a period of time. I hope that you will enjoy the convenience in reading the top quality papers from
Wout Parys, Hilde Breesch, Hugo Hens, and Dirk Saelens, “Feasibility assessment of passive cooling for office buildings in a temperate climate through uncertainty analysis”, Building and Environment, Volume 56, October 2012, Pages 95–107
Qingyan “Yan” Chen, Editor-in-Chief Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA