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Building Research & Information Volume 45 Issue 7

Subject Areas: Building and Construction
Publisher: Routledge - Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 0961-3218
SJR: 92

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Rethinking thermal comfort

Nicol, J. Fergus; Roaf, Susan

2017 Building Research & Information

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1301698
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Towards an adaptive model for thermal comfort in Japanese offices

Rijal, Hom B.; Humphreys, Michael A.; Nicol, J. Fergus

2017 Building Research & Information

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1288450

This study investigates the seasonal adaptation to temperature that occurs in Japanese offices, with a view to suggesting an adaptive model for them. Temperatures were measured in 11 office buildings and thermal comfort transverse surveys of occupants were conducted for over a year in the Tokyo...
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Temperature and adaptive comfort in heated, cooled and free-running dwellings

Nicol, Fergus

2017 Building Research & Information

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1283922

It might be assumed that buildings with active mechanical heating/cooling systems will have a narrower indoor temperature range than those without: that the indoor temperature will be adjusted by the system to reflect the needs of occupants, which are approximately the same for all. This...
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The role of lobbies: short-term thermal transitions

Vargas, Gloria; Lawrence, Ranald; Stevenson, Fionn

2017 Building Research & Information

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1304095

Maintaining comfort levels while reducing energy demand in buildings in the face of climate change is a key challenge in temperate zones. Creating transitional spaces and thermal variation in buildings may offer a way forward. This paper is a study of seasonal short-term thermal transitions in...
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Measurement of the evaporative cooling effect: oscillating misting fan

Farnham, Craig; Zhang, Lili; Yuan, Jihui; Emura, Kazuo; Alam, Ashraful M.; Mizuno, Takeo

2017 Building Research & Information

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1278651

To determine the thermal effects of an oscillating mist fan (spraying 86 L/h of droplets with 25 µm mean diameter) on worker comfort, its effects on the thermal environment were measured in a large indoor space (37,500 m2/525,000 m3). It was found that the temperature dropped by 0.2–2.5 K, with...
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Exploring internal body heat balance to understand thermal sensation

Kingma, B.R.M.; Schweiker, M.; Wagner, A.; van Marken Lichtenbelt, W. D.

2017 Building Research & Information

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1299996

A biological perspective is used to understand thermal sensation. The main premise is that thermal sensation serves an organism for the regulation of body temperature. A biological concept related to this premise is the physiological thermoneutral zone (TNZ). Within the TNZ the body can adjust...
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Healthy excursions outside the thermal comfort zone

van Marken Lichtenbelt, Wouter; Hanssen, Mark; Pallubinsky, Hannah; Kingma, Boris; Schellen, Lisje

2017 Building Research & Information

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1307647

The concepts of comfort and health may be related but are not synonyms. New knowledge has been gathered regarding metabolic health effects of temperature exposure outside the human thermal comfort zone. Mild cold and warm environments increase metabolism, thereby targeting obesity by...

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