Post-Occupancy Evaluation’s (POE) Applications for Improving Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ)
Toxics, 2022 To improve buildings and their characteristics, the feedback provided directly by users is generally fundamental in order to be able to adapt the technical and structural functions to the well-being of users.
F. Lolli +3 more
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Occurrence, human exposure, and risk of microplastics in the indoor environment.
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2021 Microplastics (MPs) are a group of emerging contaminants that have attracted increasing scientific and societal attention over the past decade due to their ubiquitous detection in all environmental compartments.
H. Ageel, S. Harrad, M. Abdallah
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Personalised Thermal Comfort Model for Automatic Control of a Newly Developed Personalised Environmental Control System (PECS) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Personalised Environmental Control Systems (PECS) are devices that cater to the individual needs by providing micro-climate heating, cooling, and ventilation.
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Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 well-being. Poor air quality in such environments may cause respiratory disease for millions of pupils around the globe and, in the current pandemic-dominated era, require ever more urgent actions to tackle the burden of its impacts.
S. Sadrizadeh +18 more
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Experimental evaluation of the airborne infection probability in ventilated office room at different supply airflow rates [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 The impact of the supplied airflow rate on the distribution and exposure of exhaled airborne pathogens in a room with mixing ventilation was studied. Experiments were conducted in a field laboratory at three supply airflow rates: 20, 40, 60 L/s.
Lipczynska Aleksandra +4 more
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Energy and thermal comfort performance evaluation of PCM ceiling panels for cooling a renovated office room [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The performance of suspended ceiling panels with phase change materials (PCM) for comfort cooling applications in office rooms was studied. The panel consisted of a metal casing, which encapsulates the PCM.
Quesada Allerhand José +2 more
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Passive control of the bed micro-environment by using naturally ventilated mattress [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Proper sleep is of a big importance considering that people spend one third of their lives sleeping. Thermal conditions and indoor air quality have an impact on sleep and thus must be optimized and controlled to enhance sleep quality.
Snášelová Tereza +2 more
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Investigation of the influence of operation conditions on the discharge of PCM ceiling panels. [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The aim of this study was to determine favorable operation conditions for ceiling panels containing phase change materials (PCM) for cooling applications in office rooms.
Quesada Allerhand José +2 more
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Environment-aware Multi-person Tracking in Indoor Environments with MmWave Radars
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2023 Device-free indoor localization and tracking using commercial millimeter wave radars have attracted much interest lately due to their non-intrusive nature and high spatial resolution.
Weiyan Chen +8 more
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Resiliency comparison of radiant cooling systems and all- air systems [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Radiant systems have been proven to be an energy-efficient and resource-effective heating and cooling solution for buildings. A key feature of a thermally active building system (TABS), one type of a radiant cooling system, is its ability to activate and
Shindo Kan +5 more
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