Investigation into energy performance of a school building in a hot climate: Optimum of window-to-wall ratio. [PDF]
, 2019 Global attention is currently focussed on developing techniques to improve the thermal performance of buildings to provide indoor comfort with minimum reliance on energy load.
Alwetaishi, Mamdooh, Taki, A. H.
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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020 Somatosensory comfort is mainly determined by the Temperature and Humidity Index (THI) with Wind Efficiency Index (WEI), but this conventional usage of these indicators does not capture the age-related differentials.
Siyu Liu +8 more
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Consistent Approach to Assess the Comfort of Living in the Northern and Arctic Areas [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2018 he numerous publications of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods are devoted to the consequences of the unfavourable impact of natural and climatic conditions on the health and life activity of both the indigenous and incoming population, especially in the
Margarita Nikolaevna Ignatyeva +1 more
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Climate based facade design for business buildings with examples from central London [PDF]
, 2015 There is a disconnection between commercial architecture and environmental thinking, where green features can be included as part of a strategy for gaining approvals and marketing projects, but those features are not reviewed after completion and ...
Napier, John D.
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COMFORT PROVIDING SYSTEMS IN SPACES WITH ACOUTIC INSULATION [PDF]
Scientific Journal of Silesian University of Technology. Series Transport, 2014 High capacities of currently available devices for sound registering and processing have generated a need for sound insulated spaces dedicated to exchange of confidential information.
Grzegorz KLEKOT
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Evaluating the perception of thermal environment in naturally ventilated schools in a warm and humid climate in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2021 Field study was conducted in naturally ventilated primary school buildings in a warm and humid environment in Imo State, Nigeria to determine the thermal comfort perception of young children (aged 7–12 years) and to understand the thermal conditions in ...
Ji, Y, Munonye, CC
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Green building outdoor thermal comfort in hot-desert climatic region
Cogent Engineering, 2022 This paper studies the Egyptian building design strategies for different building envelope shapes based on the green building design using the DesignBuilder program by simulating the outdoor climate conditions depending on the Egyptian meteorological ...
Ghada Elshafei +3 more
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Field study on adaptive thermal comfort in typical air conditioned classrooms [PDF]
, 2018 This study investigates adaptive thermal comfort in air conditioned classrooms in Hong Kong. A field survey was conducted in several typical classrooms at the City University of Hong Kong.
Cheng, Y +6 more
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A simplified tool for building layout design based on thermal comfort simulations
Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2017 Thermal comfort aspects of indoor spaces are crucial during the design stages of building layout planning. This study presents a simplified tool based on thermal comfort using predicted mean vote (PMV) index.
Prashant Anand +2 more
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Artificial neural network analysis of teachers��� performance against thermal comfort [PDF]
, 2020 This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Emerald in International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation on 17/04/2020, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-11-2019-0098 The accepted manuscript may differ from the ...
Alzahrani, Hamdan +4 more
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