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Felipe Quesada Molina and David Bustillos Yaguana
A key factor for achieving healthy environments in residential buildings is the provision of high indoor environmental quality (IEQ) with respect to the acceptance by its occupants, based on levels of the physical parameters which contribute to IEQ. This...
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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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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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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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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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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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Ehsan Sorooshnia, Payam Rahnamayiezekavat, Maria Rashidi, Mahsan Sadeghi and Bijan Samali
In humid subtropical climates with a green environment, windows are the most dominant envelope elements affecting indoor visual and thermal comfort and visual connection to the outdoors. This research aims to optimize a dynamic external shading system fo...
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Camilo Gustavo Araújo Alves, José Tadeu C. Junior, Francisco Bernardino Da Silva Neto, Gustavo R. Anjos, Moisés Dantas Dos Santos and Gustavo Peixoto de Oliveira
Infection containment in the post-pandemic scenario became a top priority for healthcare engineering control staffers, especially in pneumology sectors, where the treatment of airborne infectious diseases is frequent. In Brazil, where COVID-19 left a lon...
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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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Farah Nur Arina Baharudin, Nor Azlina Ab. Aziz, Mohamad Razwan Abdul Malek, Anith Khairunnisa Ghazali and Zuwairie Ibrahim
A comfortable indoor environment contributes to a better quality of life and wellbeing for its occupants. The indoor temperature, lighting, and air quality are the main controlling factors of user comfort levels. The optimum control of the lighting, air ...
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Juan Xu, Wenting Yang, Ziliang Lu, Yan Wu, Chaoping Hou and Dan Liu
Slate dwellings are known as the ?living fossil of primitive dwellings? in China. Energy-saving strategies are crucial to slate dwellings for sustainability as well as maintaining thermal comfort. In this research, a subjective satisfaction analysis on t...
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Luca Zaniboni and Rossano Albatici
Current literature and guidelines on sustainable design often debate on the advantages of natural ventilation (NV) and mechanical ventilation (MV) on indoor environment and energy consumption. The present systematic review explores the existing literatur...
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Zhaosong Fang, Zhisheng Guo, Weibin Chen, Huijun Wu and Zhimin Zheng
Owing to historical reasons, only a few locations in the Guangdong province use heating to enhance interior thermal conditions. With the variation in climate and increase in people?s lifestyle requirements, winter heating has become increasingly necessar...
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Alessandra Ranesi, Magda Posani, Rosário Veiga and Paulina Faria
In Southern European countries, due to the specific climate, economy and culture, a permanent heating practice during winter is not widely adopted. This may have a significant effect on the performance of indoor coating materials, typically tested consid...
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António Manuel Figueiredo Freitas Oliveira, Helena Corvacho
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Ochuko Kelvin Overen, Edson Leroy Meyer and Golden Makaka
Solar radiation provides the most significant natural energy in buildings for space heating and daylighting. Due to atmospheric interference, solar radiation received at the Earth?s surface consists of direct beam and diffuse radiation, where diffuse can...
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Ruey-Lung Hwang, Bi-Lian Chen and Wei-An Chen
Strategies to reduce energy consumption are presently experiencing vigorous development. Phase change materials (PCMs) are novel materials that can reduce indoor temperatures via the change in material phase. Regarding the situation in Taiwan, there is n...
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Ivan Oropeza-Perez
In this document, the thermal effect of a heat island upon an urban area and its surrounding low-rise buildings is analyzed with the building thermal simulation program EnergyPlus and its EnergyPlus weather files (EPW). By using a top-down approach, a si...
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Nina Vanhaeren, Laure De Cock, Lieselot Lapon, Nico Van de Weghe, Kristien Ooms and Philippe De Maeyer
Indoor navigation systems are not well adapted to the needs of their users. The route planning algorithms implemented in these systems are usually limited to shortest path calculations or derivatives, minimalizing Euclidian distance. Guiding people along...
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Alla Marchenko, Alenka Temeljotov-Salaj, Victor Rizzardi and Odne Oksavik
In the time of climate change, as heat waves become a more regular occurrence, indoor thermal comfort is an important factor in day to day life. Due to such circumstances, many researchers have focused their studies on finding an effective solution that ...
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