People are spending more and of their lives indoors, making thermal comfort air quality essential factors for health well-being. The use natural elements within indoor spaces can improve the environment quality, but also bring multiple well-being, psychological, cognitive, behavioral benefits due to its biophilic effect. Indoor vertical greenery strategy in buildings give these building occupan...

introduction reducing and optimizing energy consumption and consequently environmental pollution reductions, besides improving building performance providing occupants comfort conditions, make the building's concept closer to the concept of green building and sustainability. once the decision to build green has been made, one of the first steps in the green design process is to establish f...

This study empirically examines the impact of indoor physical environment on academicians’ productivity in different higher education institutes of Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa (KPK) province of Pakistan. The study is based on primary data collected from one hundred and forty four educationists’ of various institutes in Pakistan namely, COMSATS Abbottabad campus, Hazara University, Mansehra campus, UET...

The aim of this paper is to propose an educational hands-on project using inexpensive subsystems for learning guidance and control. A Lego Mindstorms NXT, a low-cost web camera, and tractable tools are used for searching for and mapping of an obstacle in an indoor environment. In order to provide the Lego robot with navigation information indoors, visual tracking is implemented by using color m...

The advent and application of high-throughput molecular techniques for analyzing microbial communities in the indoor environment have led to illuminating findings and are beginning to change the way we think about human health in relation to the built environment. Here I review recent studies on the microbiology of the built environment, organize their findings into 12 major thematic categories...

Efforts within cartography on indoor maps have previously not received a lot of attention. Work that has been carried out on indoor maps often focus on map design very similar to an architectural style (Klippel et al. 2006, Ciavarella and Paternò 2004). In some cases the design has been of a more novel character where approaches with augmented and virtual realities have been carried out (Radocz...

Indoor air quality is a very important parameter for living environments, which is closely related to people's daily work and health. However, nowadays, the environmental pollution, haze weather and other issues have become increasingly prominent. In this context, it is necessary to design an automatic detection device for monitoring the air quality in buildings. In this paper, an indoor air qu...