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Ivan Lee, James A. Voogt and Terry J. Gillespie
With the expected increase in warmer conditions caused by climate change, heat-related illnesses are becoming a more pressing issue. One way that humans can protect themselves from this is to seek shade. The design of urban spaces can provide individuals...
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Dongxue Wei, Zefeng Lian and Binyi Liu
The locality of landscape design needs to obtain human thermal perception in different cities or regions. Previous studies in Shanghai have focused on a single season and ignored the seasonal characteristics of hot summers and cold winters. The objective...
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Satoshi Hirabayashi, Tsutomu Abe, Fumiko Imamura and Chie Morioka
Heat stress is an issue for marathon races in the summer, such as the one planned for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic games. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is planning to grow existing street trees’ canopies to enlarge their shade to reduce air te...
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Koichi Isawa
To obtain a basic understanding of the resultant changes in the human body exergy balance (input, consumption, storage, and output) accompanying outdoor air temperature fluctuations, a ?human body system and a built environmental system? coupled with num...
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S. TOY,S. YILMAZ
In this study, the extents of the effects of a medium-sized, unindustrialized and well planned city, Erzincan, in Turkey on human thermal comfort conditions tried to be determined comparing the results of thermal comfort calculations, by means of meteoro...
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M. Akif Irmak, Sevgi Yilmaz, Dogan Dursun
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The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and outdoor human thermal comfort may be affected by several factors such as the size of the built environment, the rate of open and green spaces and different types of ground surface covers (e.g., grass and artific...
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Etianne Alves Souza de Oliveira, Antonio Augusto de Paula Xavier, Ariel Orlei Michaloski, Elisandra Montes Pizybski
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It has been questioned what influence the architectural variables have on the workers? thermal comfort since the building is a barrier between both the external and internal environments. This article presents the findings of an applied research th...
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S. YILMAZ,S. TOY,H. YILMAZ
In the present study an attempt has been made to compare the differences in human bioclimatological conditions 2 m above the ground between three different land surfaces: asphalt concrete, soil and grass surfaces, using a data set obtained...
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ERNESTO JAUREGUI,ADALBERTO TEJEDA MARTÍNEZ
Applying the concept of effective temperature (ET), a scenario of human bioclimatic conditions for Mexico City is presented by using results from both GCM regional predictions for C02 doubling and temperature trend projection from an urban station. Cu...
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Etianne Alves Souza de Oliveira, Antonio Augusto de Paula Xavier, Ariel Orlei Michaloski, Elisandra Montes Pizybski (Author)
Pág. 129 - 135
It has been questioned what influence the architectural variables have on the workers? thermal comfort since the building is a barrier between both the external and internal environments. This article presents the findings of an applied research th...
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Elisabeth Fassbender, Josef Rott and Claudia Hemmerle
Cities face the consequences of climate change, specifically the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which detrimentally affects human health. In this regard, deploying PV modules in urban locales prompts inquiry into the impact of energy-active building com...
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Andre Santos Nouri, Dominik Fröhlich, Maria Matos Silva and Andreas Matzarakis
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João Paulo Assis Gobo, Marlon Resende Faria, Emerson Galvani, Fabio Luiz Teixeira Goncalves and Leonardo Marques Monteiro
The bioclimatic well-being of individuals is associated with the environmental characteristics of where they live. Knowing the relationships between local and regional climatic variables as well as the physical characteristics of a given region and their...
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Xiaogang Cheng, Bin Yang, Kaige Tan, Erik Isaksson, Liren Li, Anders Hedman, Thomas Olofsson and Haibo Li
The NISDL method proposed in this paper can be used for real time contactless measuring of human skin temperature, which reflects human body thermal comfort status and can be used for control HVAC devices.
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Ping Chen, Lufeng Nie, Jinrun Kang and Heng Liu
With urban development and renewal, underground space is becoming more utilized. The design and use of open underground public space entrances and exits have become more and more frequent. As a pedestrian passage connecting indoors and outdoors, the wind...
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Eusébio Conceição, João Gomes, Maria Manuela Lúcio and Hazim Awbi
This paper presents an application of energy production in a solar Double Skin Facade (DSF) used in a Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system for a ceiling-mounted localized air distribution systems in a virtual classroom. In this numeric...
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Toshiki Kamiya, Ryo Onishi, Sachiko Kodera and Akimasa Hirata
Ambient conditions may change rapidly and notably over time in urban areas. Conventional indices, such as the heat index and wet bulb globe temperature, are useful only in stationary ambient conditions. To estimate the risks of heat-related illness, huma...
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Chiara Bedon and Silvana Mattei
For engineering applications, human comfort in the built environment depends on several objective aspects that can be mathematically controlled and limited to reference performance indicators. Typical examples include structural, energy and thermal issue...
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Annamária Lehoczky, José A. Sobrino, Dra?en Skokovic and Enric Aguilar
Extreme heat poses significant risks to the world?s growing urban population, and the heat stress to human health is likely to escalate with the anthropogenically increased temperatures projected by climate models. Thus, the additional heat from the urba...
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Annamária Lehoczky, José A. Sobrino, Dra?en Skokovic and Enric Aguilar
Extreme heat poses significant risks to the world?s growing urban population, and the heat stress to human health is likely to escalate with the anthropogenically increased temperatures projected by climate models. Thus, the additional heat from the urba...
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