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Optimizing Window Configuration Counterbalancing Energy Saving and Indoor Visual Comfort for Sydney Dwellings [PDF]

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Building penetrations are the most-potent elements providing daylight and moderating the lighting energy consumption and affecting indoor comfort and consequent energy usage.
Ehsan Sorooshnia   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A First Approach to a New Index on Indoor Lighting Comfort Based on Corneal Illuminance [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Daylighting, 2019
In this study, the conditions of visual comfort were assessed in an indoor environment intended for students. For this reason, a transversal field survey was carried out in two libraries, one at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and another at the University of Granada (Spain).
Ferdinando Salata   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Current Trajectories and New Challenges for Visual Comfort Assessment in Building Design and Operation: A Critical Review

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Visual comfort can affect building occupants’ behaviour, productivity and health. It is highly dependent on the occupant and how they perform a task indoors.
Juan Diego Blanco Cadena   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictive control for indoor environment based on thermal adaptation

open access: yesScience Progress, 2021
Previous studies show that the indoor environment quality (IEQ) of buildings directly affects human health and comfort. This study aims to predict the change of indoor parameters at the next moment under the influences of the current indoor climate and ...
Xinyin Xu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Indoor Comfort and Energy Consumption Optimization Using an Inertia Weight Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

open access: yesAlgorithms, 2022
A comfortable indoor environment contributes to a better quality of life and wellbeing for its occupants. The indoor temperature, lighting, and air quality are the main controlling factors of user comfort levels.
Farah Nur Arina Baharudin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of a building’s thermal properties on pupils’ thermal comfort in junior school classrooms as determined in field studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recent thermal comfort research in a light-weight junior school building showed that children were more sensitive to higher temperatures than adults and subsequently that current thermal comfort standards were not appropriate for the assessment of their ...
James, Patrick A.B.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

A review of the lighting performance in buildings through energy efficiency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
As developing countries including Malaysia, are now moving towards sustainable development is in line with the Ninth Malaysia Plan, 9th MP, the development should be built to meet current and future needs for achieving sustainability of economic ...
Kamaruzzaman, S.N, Zulkifli, Nursyahida
core   +1 more source

Survey of hospitals lighting: Daylight and staff preferences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Hospital staff’s preferences for daylighting to notions of the effects of daylight on patient’s recovery times and processes, their experiences of daylight when treating and diagnosing patients and patient comfort levels is studied.
Banfill, Phillip Frank Gower   +4 more
core   +1 more source

A Field Study of the Impact of Indoor Lighting on Visual Perception and Cognitive Performance in Classroom

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
In this field study, a series of psychophysical tests were conducted to investigate the impact of indoor lighting on students’ visual perception and cognitive performance.
Qiang Liu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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