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Performance evaluation of radon measurement techniques in single-family homes

Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas, poses a significant health risk as prolonged exposure indoors can lead to lung cancer. Current radon measurement techniques vary widely in methodology, device types, and exposure duration, posing challenges to ...

2025

Modular Radiant Floor Heating and its Effect on Local Thermal Comfort

Dusan Licina, Dolaana Khovalyg

Radiant floor heating is widely recognized for its low-energy consumption and high efficiency. Traditional systems, however, typically heat the entire floor area within a space, conditioning spaces uniformly regardless of occupancy. This study investigates ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

A multidomain approach to neighbourhood typology for urban environmental studies

Jan Wienold, Dusan Licina, Dolaana Khovalyg, Hanieh Khodaei Tehrani

Cities are facing unprecedented challenges to their environments and residents due to continuous growth, including urban overheating, daylight accessibility, noise, and air pollution. This requires a holistic approach to the research and implementation of ...

2025

Indoor air quality in swiss primary schools: impacts of mechanical ventilation and seasonal variation

Joan Rey, Dusan Licina

Indoor air quality (IAQ) in classrooms significantly impacts the comfort, health, and cognitive performance of students and teachers. The COVID-19 pandemic heightened awareness of IAQ, leading to increasing adoption of mechanical ventilation systems in sch ...

2025

Population exposure to ozone and its gas-phase oxidation products in 25 European cities

Dusan Licina, Evangelos Belias

Ozone and its oxidation products are increasingly recognized as significant health hazards. Understanding population exposure is critical for linking ozone and its products to health outcomes. This study used outdoor ozone concentrations from 47 monitoring ...

2025

Corrigendum to “Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments” [Building and Environment 244 (2023) 110763] (Building and Environment (2023) 244, (S0360132323007904), (10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110763))

Dusan Licina

The authors regret to inform the editorial office about addition of an author, Mr. Marouane Merizak, to the list of authors. Revised order of authorship: Marouane Merizak a, Brandon Boor b,c, Dusan Licina a,* a Human-Oriented Built Environment Lab, School ...

2025

Ten questions concerning the economics of indoor environmental quality in buildings

Dusan Licina

Indoor environmental quality in buildings encompasses air quality, thermal environment, acoustics, and lighting. While engineering and health sciences have studied the impact of these attributes on occupants, a limited number of economic studies have inves ...

Elsevier BV2025

The impact of real-time carbon dioxide awareness on occupant behavior and ventilation rates in student dwellings

Dusan Licina

Although existing standards typically prescribe fixed ventilation rates, a large portion of the building stock lacks mechanical ventilation systems. Such buildings obtain outdoor air through unintentional infiltration, open windows, and the operation of ex ...

Lausanne2024

Performance evaluation of radon active sensors and passive dosimeters at low and high radon concentrations

Joan Rey, Dusan Licina

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that has the potential to accumulate in buildings and over time, causes lung cancer in humans. Present methods for radon measurements are disparate, which pose challenges to benchmark radon concentrations and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Evaluating the impact of indoor aerosols on the performance of real-time radon sensors

Dusan Licina

Copyright © 2024 Rey, Meisser, Licina and Goyette Pernot.Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas, poses a significant health risk by accumulating in buildings and potentially leading to lung cancer. Depending on building construction and geographical ...

2024

What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings

Dusan Licina

Buildings are designed to respond to functional and regulatory needs, providing comfortable conditions to occupants, offering satisfactory environmental settings, minimising health risks, and enhancing individual and collective quality of life. Although th ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Resuspension of inhalable particles from clothing: A manikin-based chamber study

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang

Clothing plays a significant role in facilitating inhalation exposure to particulate matter (PM). Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies investigating PM resuspension from clothing. This study aims to quantify size-resolved PM resuspension rate (RR) from ...

2024

Exploring indoor environmental perception through questionnaires, physiological monitoring, and facial expression recognition

Dusan Licina

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has a profound impact on occupant health, comfort, and performance. Various methods are employed to collect feedback from building users, ranging from conventional questionnaires, increasingly utilized physiological monit ...

2024

Estimating Air Change Rate in Mechanically Ventilated Classrooms Using a Single CO2 Sensor and Automated Data Segmentation

Dusan Licina

With a growing emphasis on indoor air quality (IAQ) in educational environments, CO2 monitoring in classrooms has become commonplace. CO2 data can be used to estimate outdoor air change rate (ACH) based on the mass balance principle, which can be further l ...

2024

Physiology or Psychology: What Drives Human Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Ammonia?

Dusan Licina, Athanasios Nenes, Shen Yang, Marouane Merizak

Humans are the primary sources of CO2 and NH3 indoors. Their emission rates may be influenced by human physiological and psychological status. This study investigated the impact of physiological and psychological engagements on the human emissions of CO2 a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Nanocluster Aerosols from Ozone-Human Chemistry Are Dominated by Squalene-Ozone Reactions

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang

Nanocluster aerosols (NCAs,

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Influence of Ventilation on Formation and Growth of 1-20 nm Particles via Ozone-Human Chemistry

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang, Marouane Merizak, Meixia Zhang

Ozone reaction with human surfaces is an important source of ultrafine particles indoors. However, 1-20 nm particles generated from ozone-human chemistry, which mark the first step of particle formation and growth, remain understudied. Ventilation and indo ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Nanocluster aerosol formation via ozone chemistry on worn clothing: Influence of environmental parameters

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang

Nanocluster aerosols (NCA, particles

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Indoor Emission, Oxidation, and New Particle Formation of Personal Care Product Related Volatile Organic Compounds

Dusan Licina

Personal care products (PCPs) contain diverse volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and routine use of PCPs indoors has important implications for indoor air quality and human chemical exposures. This chamber study deployed aerosol instrumentation and two onli ...

2024

Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments (vol 244, 110763, 2023)

Dusan Licina

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023