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Parental Resilience in a Bushfire to Pandemic Context: An Ecological Systems Approach Open

Emily Macleod, Iman Kibukamusoke, Ivana Seselja, Timothy Heffernan, Jo Lane , et al. · 2025

In the context of disaster, parents and caregivers are both personally impacted and responsible for supporting their children’s resilience. Concerningly, little is known about lived experiences of parenting during disasters. In this qualit…

Invest in social and collective approaches to improve mental health in the context of climate disasters Open

Tegan Cruwys, Lisa Gibbs, Emily Macleod, Samantha K. Stanley, Ben Albert Steward , et al. · 2025

The impact of simplified window and exhaust fan assumptions on indoor air quality in multifamily buildings Open

Cara H. Lozinsky, Núria Casquero-Modrego, Iain S. Walker, Brennan Less, Quinn P. Graessle , et al. · 2025

Uncertainty in building airtightness tests: Comparison of regression techniques using a comprehensive dataset of 6,000 tests Open

Benedikt Kölsch, Valérie Leprince, J. R. Zeller, Iain S. Walker · 2025

Building airtightness is important for enhancing energy efficiency and indoor air quality. Consequently, many regulations now mandate specific airtightness levels for new constructions, necessitating accurate measurements to ensure complia…

The health and indoor environmental quality impacts of residential building envelope retrofits: A literature review Open

Cara H. Lozinsky, Núria Casquero-Modrego, Iain S. Walker · 2025

Decarbonizing residential buildings in the United States: A comparative analysis of households and construction professionals Open

Núria Casquero-Modrego, Chrissi Antonopoulos, Tracy L. Fuentes, Kieren H. McCord, Iain S. Walker · 2025

We present a comparative analysis of surveys distributed to home occupants and construction professionals in the U.S., focused on energy upgrades and electrification retrofits that support residential building decarbonization. The surveys …

Reducing the cost of home energy upgrades in the US: An industry survey Open

Aven Satre-Meloy, Núria Casquero-Modrego, Brennan Less, Iain S. Walker · 2024

Decarbonizing the US residential building stock requires a substantial acceleration in home energy upgrades. Numerous barriers exist to accelerating adoption of efficient and electric building technologies, but foremost among these is high…

Air pollutant exposure concentrations from cooking a meal with a gas or induction cooktop and the effectiveness of two recirculating range hoods with filters Open

Jiayu Li, Haoran Zhao, Marion Russell, William W. Delp, Alexandra Johnson , et al. · 2024

This study compares air pollutant concentrations resulting from cooking with gas or induction cooktops, with or without either of two recirculating range hoods with filters. A meal of pasta, plant-based “meat” sauce and stir-fried broccoli…

Compartmentalization and ventilation system impacts on air and contaminant transport for multifamily buildings Open

Iain S. Walker, Brennan Less, Cara H. Lozinsky, David M. Lorenzetti, Núria Casquero-Modrego , et al. · 2024

Provision of acceptable indoor air quality in multifamily buildings (MFBs) depends on the interior air flows that impact dilution of contaminants, cross-contamination between units and building energy use. The airtightness of interior part…

Mechanical ventilation and indoor air quality in recently constructed U.S. homes in marine and cold-dry climates Open

Chrissi Antonopoulos, Samuel Rosenberg, Haoran Zhao, Iain S. Walker, William W. Delp , et al. · 2023

Mechanical Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Recently Constructed U.S. Homes in Marine and Cold-Dry Climates Data from Building America Project Open

Haoran Zhao, Chrissi Antonopoulos, Samuel Rosenberg, Iain S. Walker, William W. Delp , et al. · 2023

Data were collected to characterize whole-house mechanical ventilation (WHMV) and indoor air quality (IAQ) in 55 homes in the Marine climate of Oregon and Cold-Dry climate of Colorado in the U.S. Sixteen homes were monitored for two weeks,…

Getting to Scale for Decarbonizing Homes in the US: An Industry Survey Open

Núria Casquero-Modrego, W.R. Chan, Brennan Less, Iain S. Walker · 2022

Most of the residential building stock in the US and EU was built according to the building and construction code prevailing at time of construction and have poor energy performance that contributes to higher carbon emissions. Energy and c…

Editorial: Improving disaster health outcomes and resilience through rapid research: Implications for public health policy and practice Open

Stephanie Montesanti, Iain S. Walker, Arthur W. H. Chan · 2022

EDITORIAL article Front. Public Health, 02 August 2022Sec. Disaster and Emergency Medicine https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.989573

Home Energy Upgrades as a Pathway to Home Decarbonization in the US: A Literature Review Open

Brennan Less, Núria Casquero-Modrego, Iain S. Walker · 2022

This work aims to characterize how home energy upgrade projects and programs in the US have evolved over the past decade. It also identifies what changes are needed to drive expansion of the US energy retrofit market in such a way that add…

Plurilocal Communities in the Indian Ocean World Open

Martin Sláma, Iain S. Walker · 2022

This special issue is the second of two that have emerged from a conference in Halle, Germany, in September 2019 with the theme ‘Us and them: Diasporas for others in the Indian Ocean.’1 In the introduction to the previous issue, in which w…

A Time-Varying Model for Predicting Formaldehyde Emission Rates in Homes Open

Haoran Zhao, Iain S. Walker, Michael D. Sohn, Brennan Less · 2022

Recent studies have succeeded in relating emissions of various volatile organic compounds to material mass diffusion transfer using detailed empirical characteristics of each of the individual emitting materials. While significant, the res…

Smart Ventilation Controls for Occupancy and Auxiliary Fan Use Across U.S. Climates Open

Brennan Less, Iain S. Walker · 2022

Smart Ventilation has been developed as a way to reduce the energy associated with ventilation by changing when ventilation happens and how much ventilation occurs at any given time. In high performance buildings with low envelope and appl…

Carbon and energy cost impacts of electrification of space heating with heat pumps in the US Open

Iain S. Walker, Brennan Less, Núria Casquero-Modrego · 2022

Compartmentalization and Ventilation System Impacts on Air and Contaminant Transport for a Multifamily Building Open

Iain S. Walker, Brennan Less, David M. Lorenzetti, Mike Sohn, Núria Casquero-Modrego · 2022

The proper provision of fresh air ventilation and avoidance of cross-contamination in multi-family apartment dwellings has never been more critical than during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The airtightness of interior partitions and the d…

Energy Savings Estimates for Occupancy- and Temperature-based Smart Ventilation Control Approaches in Single-family California Homes Open

Iain S. Walker, Jordan D. Clark, Brennan Less, Spencer Dutton, Xiwang Li , et al. · 2021

Author(s): Walker, Iain; Clark, Jordan; Less, Brennan; Dutton, Spencer; Li, Xiwang; Sherman, Max

Energy Savings Estimates for Occupancy- and Temperature-based Smart Ventilation Control Approaches in Single-family California Homes Open

Jordan D. Clark, Iain S. Walker, Brennan Less, Spencer Dutton, Xiwang Li , et al. · 2021

As homes become more air-tight in response to energy efficiency concerns and changes in building codes, new ventilation solutions are needed in order to provide for a healthy indoor environment while minisinz energy use. This is especially…

Relevance of CO2-based IAQ indicators: Feedback from long-term monitoring of three nearly zero-energy houses Open

María José Rueda López, Benjamin Golly, Michel Ondarts, Fréderic Würtz, Evelyne Gonze , et al. · 2021

Quantification of air leakage paths: a comparison of airflow and acoustic measurements Open

Benedikt Kölsch, Iain S. Walker, Björn Schiricke, William W. Delp, Bernhard Hoffschmidt · 2021

Today, the fan pressurization method is the most frequently used method to evaluate a building's airtightness. However, the localization and quantification of leaks remain difficult. In this paper, an acoustic method is introduced to estim…

Development of Advanced Smart Ventilation Controls for Residential Applications Open

Iain S. Walker, Brennan Less, David M. Lorenzetti, Michael D. Sohn · 2021

This study examined the use of zoned ventilation systems using a coupled CONTAM/EnergyPlus model for new California dwellings. Several smart control strategies were developed with a target of halving ventilation-related energy use, largely…

A review of performance-based approaches to residential smart ventilation Open

Iain S. Walker, Gaëlle Guyot, Max H. Sherman · 2021

Are low-cost sensors good enough for IAQ controls? Open

Iain S. Walker, Delp Woody, Brett C. Singer · 2021

Over the past few years there have been advances in sensing of some pollutants, primarily particles, that might lead to ventilation controls based on direct sensing of pollutants – particularly those relating to health. In this study we ev…

A review of smart ventilation energy and IAQ performance in residential buildings Open

Iain S. Walker, Gaëlle Guyot, Max H. Sherman · 2021

Ventilation and Measured IAQ in new US homes Open

Iain S. Walker, Brett C. Singer, Chan Rengie · 2021

Mukalla, Hadramawt Open

Iain S. Walker · 2021

Mukalla, Hadramawt, one of two principal points of departure for emigrants and today capital of the governorate in Yemen. Taken by Iain Walker in c.2006.

Review for "Cabin air quality on non-smoking commercial flights: A review of published data on airborne pollutants" Open

Iain S. Walker · 2021

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