The intersection of energy and cost management, occupant health and operational efficiency becomes particularly critical during summer months.

Heaters, ventilation, and air conditioners are essential to ensure a building’s occupants feel neither too warm nor too cold, but the impact of spatial parameters on personal thermal comfort has ...

Large commercial and institutional buildings face significant challenges in maintaining thermal comfort while minimizing ...

MSc Riikka Holopainen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has written a doctoral thesis on a new method for estimating the actual level of human thermal comfort in low-energy buildings.

Thermal comfort is not a bunch of equipment, but as engineer Robert Bean called it, a condition of mind. Bean explains at length that we have an internal thermostat in our hypothalamus that ...

Shade, within the context of outdoor thermal comfort, provides two important benefits: it blocks solar radiation to the human body and reduces solar gains on exterior surfaces, which would otherwise ...

As engineer Robert Bean wrote on his Healthy Heating website, "thermal comfort does not come in a furnace or air conditioner nor is it a thermostat reading of 72°F (22°C)…as much as consumers ...

More than 200 homes in Hampshire are to benefit from energy efficiency upgrades. The £2.8m investment by Aster Group will ...

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Evaluating the impact of urban green space and landscape design parameters on thermal comfort in hot summer by numerical simulation. Building and Environment , 2017; 123: 277 DOI: 10.1016/j ...