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Hyungkeun Kim, Kyungsoo Lee and Taeyeon Kim
Two types of methods are used to evaluate pedestrian comfort: pedestrian wind comfort and outdoor thermal comfort. To accurately ascertain the outdoor wind environment, wind speed is the only parameter considered. However, pedestrians may still feel disc...
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Juan Manuel Medina, Carolina M. Rodriguez, Maria Camila Coronado and Lina Maria Garcia
The analysis of thermal comfort in buildings, energy consumption, and occupant satisfaction is crucial to influencing the architectural design methodologies of the future. However, research in these fields in developing countries is sectorised. Most time...
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Ágnes Borsos, Erzsébet Szeréna Zoltán, Éva Pozsgai, Balázs Cakó, Gabriella Medvegy and János Girán
Previous studies have shown that indoor environmental quality (IEQ) parameters may have a considerable effect on office employees? comfort, health and performance. Therefore, we initiated a research program to help occupants identify IEQ parameters they ...
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Hermawan Hermawan and Jozef ?vajlenka
Passive thermal comfort has been widely used to test the thermal performance of a building. The science of active thermal comfort is important to be connected with the science of architecture. The currently developing active thermal comfort is adaptive t...
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Paulina Wegertseder-Martinez, Ileana Berges-Alvarez and Beatriz Piderit-Moreno
Personal Comfort Systems (PCSs) have emerged as an innovative solution to address variable individual conditions that traditional comfort models excluded. This study investigates the impact of the simultaneous application and use of three PCSs in real of...
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Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana, Ángel Benigno González-Avilés, Nuria Castilla and Antonio Galiano-Garrigós
The dry Mediterranean climate (BShs) is the European region with the highest number of hours of sunshine per year. The high annual solar radiation makes sun shading devices necessary to comply with current energy efficiency standards. However, these stan...
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Tianyu Xi, Ming Wang, Enjia Cao, Jin Li, Yong Wang and Salanke Umar Sa?ad
The thermal comfort evaluation of the urban environment arouses widespread concern among scholars, and research in this field is mostly based on thermal comfort evaluation indexes such as PMV, PET, SET, UTCI, etc. These thermal comfort index evaluation m...
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Jordi Mazon
Simple indicators are often used to summarize the complexity of systems or products, commonly through color-coded labels paired with letters. These labels, like those indicating energy efficiency or nutritional ratings, help users quickly understand esse...
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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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Prativa Lamsal, Sushil Bahadur Bajracharya and Hom Bahadur Rijal
The thermal environment quality of office buildings has an important role because thermal comfort is directly related to human productivity. Thermal comfort conditions are influenced by climate, location, and the built environment; hence, comfort standar...
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Krzysztof Nering, Alicja Kowalska-Koczwara, Anna Shymanska and Michal Pawlus
The noise problem in hotel rooms is strictly connected to noise generated by heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) devices. Hospitality industry companies in many countries have specific requirements and monitor the noise level with technical...
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Ruey-Lung Hwang, Wei-An Chen and Yu-Teng Weng
This study estimates the relationship between poor indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and the increasing labor costs in green buildings in Taiwan. Specifically, poor performance of IEQ including HVAC, lighting, and indoor air quality, influences the heal...
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Sobhi Mejjaouli
Because of their significant energy consumption and its economic and environmental impacts, existing buildings offer decision makers opportunities and challenges at the same time. In fact, there is a worldwide effort to improve the energy performance of ...
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Zeliang Zhang, Kang Xiaohan, Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid and Hiroyuki Iida
The notion of comfort with respect to rides, such as roller coasters, is typically addressed from the perspective of a physical ride, where the convenience of transportation is redefined to minimize risk and maximize thrill. As a popular form of entertai...
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Sun-Ho Kim, Young-Ran Yoon, Jeong-Won Kim and Hyeun-Jun Moon
Maintaining a pleasant indoor environment with low energy consumption is important for healthy and comfortable living in buildings. In previous studies, we proposed the integrated comfort control (ICC) algorithm, which integrates several indoor environme...
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Matheus das Neves Almeida, Antonio Augusto de Paula Xavier and Ariel Orlei Michaloski
As of 2020, it has been 50 years since the publication of Fanger?s predictive model of thermal comfort that was designed for indoor environments and attention worldwide is directed at the COVID-19 pandemic and discussions around recommendations for these...
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Ernesto Antonini, Vincenzo Vodola, Jacopo Gaspari and Michaela De Giglio
While indoor comfort represents a widely investigated research topic with relation to sustainable development and energy-demand reduction in the built environment, outdoor comfort remains an open field of study, especially with reference to the impacts o...
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Nicola Lolli, Alessandro Nocente and Steinar Grynning
The influence of different control strategies on the user?s satisfaction in cell offices was studied in a full-scale facility in Trondheim, Norway. Eleven participants used two test cells as a workspace and answered a computer-based questionnaire for rep...
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Ilaria Ballarini, Giovanna De Luca, Argun Paragamyan, Anna Pellegrino and Vincenzo Corrado
Directive 2010/31/EU promotes the refurbishment of existing buildings to change them into nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs). Within this framework, it is of crucial importance to guarantee the best trade-off between energy performance and indoor envir...
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