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Romina Rissetto and Marcel Schweiker
Rising global temperatures have increased the need for research into human adaptability and comfort in buildings. To reduce comfort-related energy demands, low-energy-consumption alternatives for space cooling, such as personal environmental control syst...
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Siliang Yang, Francesco Fiorito, Alistair Sproul and Deo Prasad
Energy used in buildings is mainly attributed to provide the desired thermal comfort, which could result in an increase in carbon emission and, in turn, lead to further environmental degradation. A Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Double-Skin Façade (BIP...
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Iasmin Lourenço Niza, Ana Maria Bueno and Evandro Eduardo Broday
The growing concern for sustainability is evident, given the importance of guaranteeing resources for the next generations, especially in the face of increasing energy consumption in buildings. Regardless of the context, people seek comfort, which makes ...
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Maria Inês Conceição, Eusébio Conceição, António Grilo, Meysam Basiri and Hazim Awbi
A greenhouse is used to improve thermal comfort (TC) levels for its occupants in winter conditions using solar radiation, which involves low energy consumption. The aim of this research is the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the evaluat...
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Goosang Joe and Sanghoon Park
Amid concerns over airflow-induced transmission of the COVID-19 virus in buildings frequented by large numbers of people, such as offices, the necessity for radiant ceiling heating panels has increased. This is due to the concern that the airflows emitte...
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Zhaofei Xu, Weidong Lu, Zhenyu Hu, Wei Yan, Wei Xue, Ta Zhou and Feifei Jiang
Different types of buildings in different climate zones have their own design specifications and specific user populations. Generally speaking, these populations have similar sensory feedbacks in their perception of environmental thermal comfort. Existin...
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Ibrahim Shaer and Abdallah Shami
Residential and industrial buildings are significant consumers of energy, which can be reduced by controlling their respective Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Demand-based Ventilation (DCV) determines the operational times of v...
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Dadi Zhang, Kwok-Wai Mui and Ling-Tim Wong
In the past two decades, with advances in data collection and in analytical techniques and tools, there has been a significant increase in research on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) assessment. To better understand the relationships between the overa...
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Yuyan Wang, Xi Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Hao Zhang, Bo Xiong and Xuepeng Shi
Population growth and urban expansion have led to increased demand for buildings. Optimizing the building façade design, using integrated photovoltaic (PV) shading and vertical farming (VF) can reduce building energy consumption while ensuring a partial ...
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Giovanni Tardioli, Ricardo Filho, Pierre Bernaud and Dimitrios Ntimos
The estimation of indoor thermal comfort and the associated occupant feedback in office buildings is important to provide satisfactory and safe working environments, enhance the productivity of personnel, and to reduce complaints. The assessment of therm...
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