Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy confined environments; recording and processing of environmental data; buildings energy analysis; environmental thermo-fluid dynamics; natural and artificial lighting; environmental and building acoustics; problems in environmental comfort and conservation of cultural assets; active and passive strategies for environmental monitoring and air-conditioning systems; indoor and outdoor comfort (UHI,UHII etc); solar energy; heat transfer; energy saving; renewable energy