Building performance has been significantly impressed for the importance of occupant environmental comfort and wellbeing, as well as environmental sustainability. To accomplish these functional needs, many building technologies have recently emerged in multiple domains, such as environmental controls, building design, and energy-efficient systems. However, in spite of many (system) design and technical efforts to improve building performance, the uncertainty of existing mechanisms, such as pre-defined computational modeling and conventional guidelines, has frequently resulted in lower performance efficiency than intended. As a consequence, occupants’ environmental discomfort and stress, and inefficient environmental performance have been frequently witnessed. Therefore, novel and creative research is desired toward advancing environmental control paradigm as a function of multi-disciplinary expert knowledge across engineering, design, and human physiology. The aim of this special issue is to primarily advance the vision of advanced environmental controls of recent high-performance building studies in order to share the insights and contribute to developing novel research concepts in the domain of building science and technology. This special issue invites the most recent research and reflection of indigenous scholars and will provide a platform to discuss all aspects relating to advanced environmental controls for high-performance buildings. The following are potential research topics to welcome in this special issue, but are not limited to: Indoor environmental quality; Occupant-centric environmental controls; Innovative sustainable design; Human environmental comfort; Adaptive environmental/thermal controls; Human factors and physiology in the built environment; Applied-computational algorithms to buildings; Energy-efficient building.
Keywords: Environmental resiliency; Occupant-centric; Human factors; Energy efficiency; Smart buildings.