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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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Xuejun Qi, Xing Zhao, Bin Fu, Lanjing Xu, Haibin Yu and Shuyan Tao
The urban heat island phenomenon in large cities is becoming increasingly serious as urbanization continues to develop, seriously affecting the lives of urban residents. Rivers can effectively alleviate urban heat islands and improve the thermal comfort ...
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Tania Rus, Raluca Moldovan, Horatiu Albu and Dorin Beu
The indoor environmental quality of a building has attracted everyone?s attention since a worldwide pandemic was declared and forced people indoors. After several months, people were able to return to their usual activities, but with strict safety measur...
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Dong Liu, Na Liu, Donglin Ren, Xiaozhou Wu, Jun Wang, Yabin Tian, Anjie Hu, Li Wan and Jialan Wen
The thermal comfort of preschool children was assumed to be similar to that of young adults, which may cause inaccuracy. This study tested and analyzed the thermal response characteristics of young adults and preschool children (4?6 years old) and the di...
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Samin Marzban, Christhina Candido, Arianna Brambilla, Ozgur Gocer, Diksha Vijapur and Christopher Jensen
The current +-0.5 PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) targets adopted by NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) is the practical range deemed acceptable for 90% acceptability for commercial buildings in Australia, however thermal comfort sati...
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Mahmoud Al-Faris, John Chiverton, David Ndzi and Ahmed Isam Ahmed
A wide range of techniques exist to help control the thermal comfort of an occupant in indoor environments. A novel technique is presented here to adaptively estimate the occupant?s metabolic rate. This is performed by utilising occupant?s actions using ...
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Craig Farnham and Jihui Yuan
Mist evaporation cooling (MEC) is increasingly used as a low-energy means to improve thermal comfort in hot environments. However, the thermal sensation votes (TSV) often overshoot values of Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) models. Evaluations of MEC may be aff...
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Paolo Valdiserri, Silvia Cesari, Maddalena Coccagna, Pasquale Romio and Sante Mazzacane
Hospitals require the highest energy demands in non-residential buildings. They provide healthcare 24/7/365 and, at the same time, they ensure indoor air quality, thermal comfort and sterility. However, several studies reveal that high indoor temperature...
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Baharuddin Hamzah, Zhonghua Gou, Rosady Mulyadi and Samsuddin Amin
This study aims to analyze the thermal comfort level of students in secondary schools in the tropical city of Makassar. The analysis is carried out based on data surveyed from eight selected high schools. The study involved 1594 students in 48 classrooms...
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João Paulo Assis Gobo, Emerson Galvani and Cássio Arthur Wollmann
This research concerns a first approach to adapt the thermal comfort bands of the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET), New Standard Effective Temperature (SET), and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) indices to Santa Maria?s population, Rio Grande do Sul, ...
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