Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems

S Curtis, A Fair, J Wistow, DV Val, K Oven - Environmental Health, 2017 - Springer
This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental
Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care …

The contextual factors contributing to occupants' adaptive comfort behaviors in offices–A review and proposed modeling framework

W O'Brien, HB Gunay - Building and Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Occupants play an unprecedented role on energy use of office buildings and they are often
perceived as one of the main causes of underperforming buildings. It is therefore necessary …

Personalized human comfort in indoor building environments under diverse conditioning modes

D Li, CC Menassa, VR Kamat - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
In practice, building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are essentially
set at nominal levels according to industry guidelines. However, several studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive thermal comfort model based on field studies in five climate zones across India

R Rawal, Y Shukla, V Vardhan, S Asrani… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Indian residences are vulnerable to heat-driven discomfort amid the mounting prevalence of
weather extremes, residential design and construction practices, and densifying …

Thermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings: revisions to ASHRAE Standard 55

RJ De Dear, GS Brager - Energy and buildings, 2002 - Elsevier
Recently accepted revisions to ASHRAE Standard 55—thermal environmental conditions for
human occupancy, include a new adaptive comfort standard (ACS) that allows warmer …

Non-intrusive interpretation of human thermal comfort through analysis of facial infrared thermography

D Li, CC Menassa, VR Kamat - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding occupants' thermal sensation and comfort is essential to defining the
operational settings for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in …

Converging conventions of comfort, cleanliness and convenience

E Shove - Journal of Consumer policy, 2003 - Springer
Many commentators analyse green consumption as if it were an expression of individual
environmental commitment. Such approaches suppose that the adoption of more …

Investigating natural ventilation potentials across the globe: Regional and climatic variations

Y Chen, Z Tong, A Malkawi - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Natural ventilation (NV) that reduces building energy consumption and improves indoor
environment has become a key solution to achieving sustainability in the building industry …

[LIVRE][B] Human thermal sensation and comfort in transient and non-uniform thermal environments

H Zhang - 2003 - search.proquest.com
Most existing thermal comfort models are only applicable only in uniform, steady-state
thermal environments. This thesis presents results from 109 human subject tests that were …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal comfort of older people during summer in the continental Mediterranean climate

MT Baquero, N Forcada - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, the population is ageing and extreme weather scenarios are expected, especially
in southern European countries. In this context, the study assessed the thermal comfort of …