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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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Gisela Lameira, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos, Nuno Valentim and Azar Mohammadpanah
Custom-built solutions for ageing, urban regeneration, energy efficiency, thermal performance, and well-being are contemporary challenges that have prompted considerable research over the past decades. In the construction field, subjects such as energy e...
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Eric Teitelbaum, Clayton Miller and Forrest Meggers
The psychrometric chart is the most common data visualization technique for the designers of thermal comfort systems worldwide. From its humble roots as means of expressing the characteristics of air in building systems design, the use of the chart has g...
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Carlos Zepeda-Gil and Augusto Jacobo Montiel-Castro
Despite being perceived as a warm country, winters in the Central Mexican Plateau frequently reach temperatures below zero Celsius. Prolonged exposures to low temperatures resulting in heart and respiratory morbidities are estimated to be responsible for...
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Xiaohuan Xie, Haitao Liao, Ruobing Wang and Zhonghua Gou
In recent years, semi-outdoor space has become an important research subject in the field of thermal comfort. Overhead space located on the ground floor is a common type of semi-outdoor space in China?s Lingnan region with a hot and humid climate. Its th...
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Betty Lala and Aya Hagishima
Children differ from adults in their physiology and cognitive ability. Thus, they are extremely vulnerable to classroom thermal comfort. However, very few reviews on the thermal comfort of primary school students are available. Further, children-focused ...
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Haven Hailu, Eshetu Gelan and Yared Girma
Indoor thermal comfort is an essential aspect of sustainable architecture and it is critical in maintaining a safe indoor environment. Expectations, acceptability, and preferences of traditional and modern buildings are different in terms of thermal comf...
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Inês F. G. Reis, António Figueiredo and António Samagaio
The evolution of the construction sector over the years has been marked by the replacement of high thermal inertia mass constructions by increasingly lighter solutions that are subject to greater thermal fluctuations and, consequently, thermal discomfort...
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Daniel Sánchez-García, David Bienvenido-Huertas, Jesús A. Pulido-Arcas and Carlos Rubio-Bellido
Reports of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have set various greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, through which the evolution of the temperature of the planet can be estimated throughout the 21st century. The reduction of the emissions from the d...
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Ali Youssef, Jeroen Colon, Konstantinos Mantzios, Paraskevi Gkiata, Tiago S. Mayor, Andreas D. Flouris, Guido De Bruyne and Jean-Marie Aerts
In this work, we introduce the basis for a personalised adaptive model to predict head thermal comfort using streaming data of easily measured variables, which can be used for real-time monitoring of a cyclist?s thermal comfort and adaptive controlling o...
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