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Smart Healthy Buildings for a Sustainable Environment

Journal: Recent Patents on Engineering
Guest Editor(s): Dr. Shakeel Mahmood
Co-Guest Editor(s): Dr. Sofiane Bensefia,Dr. Muhammad Irfan Ahamad,Dr. Helen Muhammad Abdul Hussein Al-Badiri
Submission closes on: 18th January, 2026

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Introduction

Over the past few years, the rapid increase in the global population, urbanization, and industrial revolution has led to several challenges in the sustainability of the environment. The major objective of both developed and developing countries is to implicate innovative techniques and technological trends to maintain a clean and healthy environment. Environmental sustainability is achieved by the well-utilization of natural resources and the preservation of the global ecosystem for the nutritional standard of life. Advanced technologies play a critical part through various means to provide an adaptive and regenerative environment in which the construction of smart, healthy buildings has been gaining more attention globally. Advances in beneficial technologies with healthier strategies paved the way for the construction of smart healthcare buildings. The essentialities of smart, healthy buildings attract considerable interest among the people for their productive lives. The explication of constructing healthy buildings relies on adopting new, more beneficial approaches, mitigating the risk factors leading to quality living. Moreover, smart healthy buildings have received much attention in the past years as it carries the potential to enhance safety measures, waste management, balanced energy use, and water conservation methods. This transition of buildings into healthy buildings is found to be attained with the amalgamation and management of data with various sensors, microchips, actuators, and automated devices. Automotive system in the operation of these smart buildings involves processes like lighting, heating, oxygenating, air-conditioning, etc. Smart, healthy building techniques are generating considerable interest in creating a building smart with additional protection and comfort features in office buildings, hospitals, educational institutions, stadiums, etc. As well, the deployment of power meters, pumps, water meters, fire alarms, lighting, and chillers plants in the construction of smart, healthy buildings enriches the up-gradation of secure living to a great extent. Although IoT (Internet of Things) enabled big data for smart buildings has led to advancements in a personalized, comfortable, and healthier indoor environment, it also has a few limitations discussed. The hurdles in building healthy structures are high-cost infrastructure, security threats, and technical complexity. Researchers and practitioners are most welcome to present research work under this background. The special issue provides various technologies and innovative strategies to construct smart, healthy buildings to develop a sustainable environment. Advancement of technologies in the construction of smart buildings for a secure environment Future perspectives of healthy smart buildings for the next generation Insights of smart, healthy buildings in the enhancement of the sustainable environment Smart, healthy buildings: trends and applications The role of IoT enabled big data to construct smart, healthy buildings. The emergence of new techniques and technologies for building smart homes Smart buildings in offices, hospitals, and stadiums from a psychological perspective

Keywords

smart building, Environmental sustainability, Healthy buildings, IoT (Internet of Things), Energy conservation, Waste management, Data-driven technologies, Sustainable construction

Sub-topics

  • Advancement of technologies in the construction of smart buildings for a secure environment
  • Future perspectives of healthy smart buildings for the next generation
  • Insights of smart, healthy buildings in the enhancement of the sustainable environment
  • Smart, healthy buildings: trends and applications
  • The role of IoT enabled big data to construct smart, healthy buildings.
  • The emergence of new techniques and technologies for building smart homes
  • Smart buildings in offices, hospitals, and stadiums from a psychological perspective 


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