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ASHRAE, AIVC Issue Final Call for Papers for IEQ 2025 Conference
Submission deadline is November 11, 2024
ATLANTA (October 17, 2024) – ASHRAE, along with AIVC (Air infiltration and Ventilation Centre) are issuing a final call for papers for the IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality) 2025 Conference, to be scheduled for September 24-26, 2025, in Montreal, Canada. Industry professionals, researchers and experts are invited to submit abstracts by November 11, 2024.
The conference, themed “Rising to New Challenges: Connecting IEQ to a Sustainable Future,” will focus on how indoor environmental quality (IEQ) affects occupants while addressing the growing need for building resilience amid a changing climate. The event will offer a platform for leading researchers and practitioners to present their innovative solutions for improving IEQ and advancing sustainability.
Requested topic areas include:
- Performance Metrics: For all aspects of IEQ
- Occupant Behavior: How behavior impacts IEQ and how IEQ impacts behavior – psychological dimensions of IEQ
- Smart Sensors, Data and Controls: Sensor properties, data management, cybersecurity, applications, commissioning, equivalence
- Resilience and IEQ: Responding to climate change and disasters
- Ventilation: Mechanical, passive, natural and hybrid systems
- Air Tightness: Trends, methods and impacts
- Thermal Comfort: Dynamic approaches, health impacts and trends
- The Environment Around Us: Acoustics, lighting, glazing, interiors and impacts upon wellness
- Policy and Standards: Trends, impacts, implications
- HVAC and IEQ in a post-COVID world
- Ventilation and building decarbonization
- Lighting and Acoustics: How can the outside be brought inside or vice versa
- Lighting Performance and Metrics
- Noise: How the environmental impact can be mitigated
- Indoor Air Quality Adaptation of Indigenous/Tribal Living
Authors have the option to submit a short abstract for either a conference paper (8-page manuscript) or an extended abstract (3-page manuscript). Submissions are due November 11, 2024. If accepted, complete manuscript submissions are due March 10, 2025.
Authors of accepted papers may be invited to submit expanded papers for publication consideration in Science and Technology for the Built Environment, ASHRAE’s journal for archival research. Papers are published in the conference proceedings (ISBN 978-1-955516-94-5), which is cited in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge Index of Scientific & Technical Proceedings, Index to Scientific Books and Current Contents Proceedings: Engineering, Technology, Applied Physics. Papers are also cited in SciVerse Scopus and COMPENDEX.
For more information on the call for papers, including additional author benefits, or to submit an abstract, visit ashrae.org/IEQ2025.
Founded in 1894, ASHRAE is a global professional society committed to serve humanity by advancing the arts and sciences of heating ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, and their allied fields.
As an industry leader in research, standards writing, publishing, certification and continuing education, ASHRAE and its members are dedicated to promoting a healthy and sustainable built environment for all, through strategic partnerships with organizations in the HVAC&R community and across related industries.
The Society is showcasing integrated building solutions and sustainability in action through the opening of the ASHRAE Global Headquarters building in metro-Atlanta, Georgia.
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