From characteristics to practical applications of skin temperature in thermal comfort research – A comprehensive review

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 262, P. 111820 - 111820

Published: July 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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Local wearable cooling may improve thermal comfort, emotion, and cognition

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 254, P. 111367 - 111367

Published: March 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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Techniques to improve the performance of hydronic radiant heating and cooling panels by geometry modification, personalisation and increasing air convection

Energy and Buildings, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 329, P. 115272 - 115272

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Language: Английский

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Local thermal sensation and thermal comfort of human body during small-scale thermal stimulus

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 270, P. 112540 - 112540

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Language: Английский

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Occupant-centric multicriteria optimization of hybrid personalized HVAC system: Impact of supply inlet layout and return air ratio

Energy and Buildings, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 333, P. 115494 - 115494

Published: Feb. 19, 2025

Language: Английский

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Lack of Thermal Comfort Is a Matter of Life and Death: A Systematic Review for Older People

Buildings, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(7), P. 1141 - 1141

Published: March 31, 2025

Thermal comfort is not a luxury; rather, lack of it matter life and death, particularly for vulnerable people, such as older people. This work systematically reviews analyses the thermal people their health mortality relates to exposure extreme temperatures, suggests acceptable conditions related energy use buildings. A total 69 out 198 papers were found on these analysed in detail. was followed by an analysis UN UK governments’ open access data. highlights disparity regarding definition age encourages term ”older people”, rather than ”elderly”, which can be offensive piece terminology. The findings suggest significant relationship between cold (below 5 °C) outdoor air temperatures those who are over 85 years old. In UK, lead up 175 deaths per degree temperature change two weeks after spell or overly hot period. indoor varies 22.5 27 °C natural ventilation mode. However, some studies 18 comfortable winter time, finding could saving relation space heating. Current gaps recommended future direction research include topics gender differences terms during menopause; conditions, adaptive behaviours naturally ventilated buildings; when sleeping heating cooling

Language: Английский

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Acoustics for Supportive and Healthy Buildings: Emerging Themes on Indoor Soundscape Research

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 12(15), P. 6054 - 6054

Published: July 28, 2020

The focus of the building industry and research is shifting from delivering satisfactory spaces to going beyond what merely acceptable with a wave new practice dedicated exploring how built environment can support task performance enhance people’s health well-being. present study addresses role acoustics in this paradigm shift. Indoor soundscape has recently emerged as an approach that brings perceptual perspective on room order shape environments “sound good” according occupants’ preference needs. This paper establishes initial discussion over some open questions field still embryonic stage. A thematic analysis structured interviews panel experts offered range perspectives characterization, management, design indoor soundscapes health-related outcomes. pointed out importance both multisensory integrated participatory practices enable holistic view regarding complex building–user interrelations just cities. Soundscape methodologies tailored peculiarities help measure predict human response acoustic stimuli context, thus reducing risk mismatches between expected real experiences. widen scientific evidence for negative positive impacts health, well-being, quality life. will prioritizing challenge many current are based noise control approach.

Language: Английский

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Experimental comparison of local direct heating to improve thermal comfort of workers

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 177, P. 106884 - 106884

Published: April 16, 2020

Language: Английский

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A review of intensified conditioning of personal micro-environments: Moving closer to the human body

Energy and Built Environment, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 2(3), P. 260 - 270

Published: July 6, 2020

Various systems and technologies have been developed in recent years to fulfil the growing needs of high-performance HVAC with better performance energy efficiency, thermal comfort, occupancy health. Intensified conditioning human occupied areas less intensified surrounding are able effectively improve overall satisfaction by individual control personalized micro-environments also, achieve maximum efficiency. Four main concepts identified chronologically through development personal environmental conditioning, changing area closer body enhancing efforts, namely task ambient (TAC) system, system (PECS), comfort (PCS), management (PTM) system. This review follows a clue concept progress evaluation, summarizes important findings feasible applications, current gaps as well future research needs.

Language: Английский

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Personalized ceiling fans: Effects of air motion, air direction and personal control on thermal comfort

Energy and Buildings, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 235, P. 110721 - 110721

Published: Jan. 8, 2021

Language: Английский

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