COVID-19: The impact in US high-rise office buildings energy efficiency.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic, through stay-at-home orders, forced rapid changes to social human behavior and interrelations, targeting the work environments to protect workers and users. Rapidly, global organizations, US associations, and professionals stepped in to mitigate the virus's spread in buildings' living and work environments. The institutions proposed new HVAC settings without efficiency concerns, as improved flow rates and filtering for irradiation, humidity, and temperature. Current literature consensually predicted an increase in energy consumption due to new measures to control the SARS-CoV-2 spread. The research team assumed the effort of validating the prior published outcomes, applied to US standardized high-rise office buildings, as defined and set by the key entities in the fi

SUBMITTER: Corticos ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8205289 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature