Specialty

Building Physics (Heat and Moisture transfer), Building Services Engineering

Works

Research reports

1 Yoshinori Honma, Kei Shimonosono, Dai Shimazaki: Evaluation of lighting, sound and air environments related to indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and their combined effects, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Research Report. “Research on Maintenance and Management Methods for middle-sized Building Owners” (PI/PD: Yoshinori Honma, 22LA1011), 2024 General Research Report, 2025

2 Yoshinori Honma: Factors forming hygrothermal environments in office buildings by long term measurements, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Research Report. “Research on Maintenance and Management Methods for middle-sized Building Owners” (PI/PD: Yoshinori Honma, 22LA1011), 2024 General Research Report, 2025

3 Yoshinori Honma: A study on subjective evaluation bias using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Research Report. “Research on Maintenance and Management Methods for middle-sized Building Owners” (PI/PD: Yoshinori Honma, 22LA1011), 2024 General Research Report, 2025

4 Yoshinori Honma: A comparison of the legal framework for housing choice in Japan and public intervention in housing performance between Japan and the UK, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Research Report. “Research into improving living environments for prevention and health promotion” (PI/PD: Motoya Hayashi, 22FA1009), 2024 Research Report, 2025

Original papers

1 Motoya Hayashi, Yoshinori Honma, Koki Kikuta, Asako Hasegawa, Sayaka Murata, Hiromi Yamada, Masayuki Ogata, Naoki Kagi, U Yanagi, Toshio Yamanaka, Hoon Kim, Kenichi Kobayashi, Noriko Kaihara, Akira Ito, Fumihiko Shinohara, Shoichi Morimoto, Ventilation measures to control aerosol transmission based on COVID-19 outbreaks in hospitals in Japan, Japan Architectural Review August 2024 (Open Access), 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1002/2475-8876.12463

2 Yoshinori Honma, Asako Hasegawa: Establishment of an Integrated Evaluation Method for Evaluating the Risk of Microbial Contamination Caused by Underfloor Space, Journal of the Housing Research Foundation “JUSOKEN”, No.50,2023, 105-114

Practice Report

1 Yoshinori Honma: Selection behavior for healthy and comfortable housing, 305-314, Journal of the National Institute of Public Health, Vol.73, No4, October 2024

Conference presentations

1 Yoshinori Honma, Kei Shimonosono, Kenichi Azuma, Dai Shimazaki, Kenichi Kobayashi, Michiko Bando and Naoe Nishihara. Temperature, Relative Humidity and Indoor Air Quality in office buildings and their subjective evaluation. 44th AIVC Conference Proceedings, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2024.10.9-10,541-550

2 Yoshinori HONMA, Kei SHIMONOSONO, Dai SIMAZAKI, Michiko BANDO, Kenichi KOBAYASHI: Indoor air humidity in offices and its subjective evaluation, Summaries of Technical Papers of Annual Meeting, Architectural Institute of Japan, Environmental Engineering,2024.8.27-30, 967-968

3 Yoshinori HONMA, Kei SHIMONOSONO, Kenichi AZUMA, Dai SIMAZAKI, Kenichi KOBAYASHI, Michiko BANDO and Naoe NISHIHARA: Development of Management Method for Sanitary Environments in Middle-scale Buildings, Part 4: Factors forming hygrothermal environments in office buildings by scale, performance and HVAC system, Collection of Papers of Annual Meeting, The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan, E-40,113-116,2024

4 Homma, Y., Shimonosono, K., AZUMA, K., Shimazaki, D., Nishihara, N., Kobayashi, K.: Sanitary management for middle-scale buildings P6, Building size, performance and airborne microorganisms. The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Public Health; 2024.10.29-31; Sapporo. Japanese public health magazine. 2024; P21-10. P. 606

5 Yoshinori HONMA: Human health and Humidity, Architectural Institute of Japan Environmental Engineering Committee Thermal Environment Steering Committee, 53rd Thermal Symposium, 2024.10.12-13:87-92.

6 Kei SHIMONOSONO, Yoshinori HONMA, Kenichi AZUMA, Dai SIMAZAKI, Kenichi KOBAYASHI, Michiko BANDO and Naoe NISHIHARA: Development of Management Method for Sanitary Environments in Middle-scale Buildings, Part 3: Examination of Maintenance Method of Indoor Air Temperature and Humidity in Summer, Collection of Papers of Annual Meeting, The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan, E-39,109-112,2024

Social contributions

・National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism: Member of the Building Environment Standards Committee

・National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, JSBC, Member of the Energy Conservation Performance Evaluation Method Review Committee

・The Building Center of Japan: Member of the Evaluation Committee for housing quality assessment on Thermal performance and Indoor air Quality

・Architectural Institute of Japan Environmental Engineering Committee of Thermal Environment, chief of the subcommittee on Humidity studies

・The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan: Secretary of the Special Committee on Guidelines for Air Conditioning and Ventilation to Prevent Infectious Diseases in Medical Facilities