Jiawei Yao

• Dr.
• Tongji University

The psychological health of university students has become a focal point for researchers worldwide. The field of environmental psychology introduces the notion of a “restorative environment”, which can help promote psychological health, and increasing research has demonstrated that environmental characteristics play a significant role in psychologi...

The wide variation in household characteristics, such as household size, income, and age, can lead to significant differences in carbon footprints. Based on data from 1132 Chinese households in 2021, this study examines the structural differences, multiple influencing factors, and mitigation strategies of household carbon footprints (HCFs) in China...

Assessing building energy consumption in urban neighborhoods at the early stages of urban planning assists decision-makers in developing detailed urban renewal plans and sustainable development strategies. At the city-level, the use of physical simulation-based urban building energy modeling (UBEM) is too costly, and data-driven approaches often ar...

Household carbon footprints significantly contribute to global carbon emissions, yet the limited features hinder the accurate assessment in regions with inadequate data. In this study, we developed a data-driven model for evaluating household carbon footprint in China based on a nationwide questionnaire survey. Employing explainable machine learnin...

The urban heat island effect intensifies, leading to increased thermal exposure for city residents. Variations in thermal sensation are observed among individuals with different short-term thermal experiences, challenging the reliability of Thermal Sensation Vote (TSV) scales. This study investigates TSV disparities in Shanghai, China, between two...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are widely adopted for predicting pedestrian-level wind (PLW). However, the lack of on-site measurement data is the primary impediment to establishing a reliable inflow wind profile. We propose a downscaling method that enables accurate modeling of PLW without the need for on-site measurements. The down...

The workers villages are typical residential type during Shanghai’s urbanization built from the 1950s to the 1980s. Due to changes in the urban environment and climatic circumstances, the workers villages have inadequate natural ventilation and difficulty in dispersing pollutants, putting residents’ health at risk. In the context of urban renewal,...

The COVID-19 pandemic led much of the conferences and education from in-person to online, significantly reducing the conferences and education carbon footprint. Unlike conferences, workshops, as a more extended teaching mode, usually involve a series of activities such as gathering, learning, and dining of participants from different regions, which...

Workers' villages in East China represent a typical form of residential government-built settlements constructed between the 1950s and the 1980s to address the housing shortage. Recent emphasis has been paid to optimizing wind and thermal comfort in older neighborhoods, following the urban renewal trend. This paper collected the geometries of 150 w...

Person search aims to localize and identify specific pedestrians from numerous surveillance scene images. In this work, we focus on the noise in person search. We categorize the noise into scene-inherent noise and human-introduced noise. Scene-inherent noise comes from congestion, occlusion, and illumination changes. Human-introduced noise originat...

The morphological design of urban blocks greatly affects the outdoor environment. Currently, performance-based urban block design relies on a time-consuming numerical simulation process, hindering performance optimization early in the design process. This work proposes an automated design process that uses generative adversarial networks (GAN) as a...

Background: Natural views are an important design strategy for the application of ecological resources in built environments. Numerous clinical studies have indicated that views of nature-for example, plants-can effectively promote patient recovery by relieving their postoperative pains and negative emotions during hospitalization. Aims: This st...

Aims: This research aimed to investigate the major user behavior patterns of noise sources in healthcare environments and summarize such information as evidence that can inform the design of maternity wards for indoor noise control and patients' well-being. Methods: Field investigations were conducted to identify users' behaviors as the major co...

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES—The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engin...

Buildings energy consumption accounts for about 30% of China’s primary energy. In order to achieve sustainable development in the future, it is essential to reduce building energy consumption by improving energy efficiency and utilizing new technologies. Reference building energy models can serve as starting points for energy efficiency research, a...

The “2019 DigitalFUTURES — The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019)” provides an international platform for advanced scientific research papers on the digital technology of architectural design and construction. The themes of the papers include, but are not limited to, architectural theories, tool...

This book presents selected papers from The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019). Focusing on novel architecture theories, tools, methods, and procedures for digital design and construction in architecture, it promotes dialogs between architecture, engineer, computer science, robotics, and other r...

In order to efficiently utilize renewable energy and solve roadside fast charging of Electric Vehicle (EV) problem, a smart hybrid pole system is proposed in this paper, which integrated with renewable energy Street Lighting Pole (SLP) and EV charging. Besides, smart hybrid pole can also serve as the backup power for traffic lights. In this system,...

As one of the most traditional and ubiquitous elements in architecture, atrium design has remained an imperative topic. With the growing concerns of energy conversation, carbon emission, comfort, and well-being recently, atrium design optimization to match the new crises and demands becomes a big challenge. This study investigated the impact of atr...

In the urbanization process, high-rise is favored and popularized, while results to the high-density urban space which aggravated the deterioration of urban wind environment. Using quantifiable environmental factors to control the building, is promoting a more meaningful group formation of the sustainable high-rise buildings. Thus, taking wind perf...

Due to the multiple benefits on energy, well-being, comfort, and the economy, the utilization of daylight remains an imperative topic of architectural design. With the remarkable ability of drawing and increasing daylight deep into the core of buildings, atriums with a large proportion of glazing have become one of the most preferred design forms....

Elevators were reported to cause an important part of building energy consumption. In general, each elevator has two operation states: The load state and power regeneration state. During operation, it has the potential to save energy by using regeneration power efficiently. In existing research, a set of energy storage devices are installed for eve...

Energy crisis and environmental pollution have become global problems, and the increasing use of energy has caused climate change. Electric vehicle (EV) is regarded as the future of the automotive industry, because of the lesser impact on the environment than traditional vehicles. In recent years, electric vehicles have developed rapidly. However,...

As the quantity of direct current (DC) load and wireless power transmission (WPT) devices are continuously increasing in building, in order to efficiently utilize renewable energy (which outputs DC power) such as photovoltaic (PV), especially for building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV), and regeneration energy from elevators (which also outputs DC...

Newly-designed high-rise buildings, both in China and abroad, have demonstrated new innovations from the creative concept to the creative method. from the creative concept to the creative method. At the same time, digital technology has enabled more design freedom in the vertical dimension. "Twisting" has gradually become the morphological choice o...

Vertical greening system(VGS) for buildings is drawing more and more research, because that it provides passive cooling for both indoors and outdoors without occupying valuable urban land, and thus can be a remedy for the deteriorating thermal environment of today's high density urban areas. This paper reports an investigation on the summertime coo...

Thermal comfort is of growing interest to academics and practitioners, while the quality of open urban spaces has received increasing attention in developed countries. Rapid urbanization has led to environmental problems, but there is relatively little research that brings these two areas together to address how microclimatic conditions influence q...

The solar hot water system (SHW) has the potential to reduce household energy usage substantially and also provide external benefits of reducing emissions of CO2 and other pollutants. But SHW is unstable due to changing outdoor climate, which needs auxiliary heat source to meet continuous hot water demand. Despite previous studies have proposed the...

In relation to Chinese cities, both thermal comfort and urban air ventilation have been researched extensively in the past decades while the quality of open urban spaces have received increasing attention in developed countries in recent years. However, there has been relatively little research addressing how microclimatic conditions also contribut...