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Sung-Yoon Ahn, Mira Kim, Hye-Won Jeong, Wonsuck Yoon, Iel-Soo Bang and Sang-Woong Lee
Technological advancements have shifted human living and working environments from outdoor to indoor. Although indoor spaces offer protection from unfavorable weather conditions, they also present new health challenges. Stale, humid, and warm indoor air ...
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Amin Habibi and Nafise Kahe
This study investigates how permeable and cool pavements, green roofs, and living walls affect microclimatic conditions and buildings? energy consumption in an arid urban setting: Shiraz. The study aims to evaluate the role of green infrastructure in mit...
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Jayda Martinez, Midhat Z. Jafry, Tzuan A. Chen, Michael S. Businelle, Darla E. Kendzor, Maggie Britton, Maya Vijayaraghavan and Lorraine R. Reitzel
Roughly 70?80% of adults experiencing homelessness smoke cigarettes. Smoke-free living/workplace policies are an empirically-supported tobacco control intervention. However, homeless shelters may be reluctant to implement smoke-free policies due to fears...
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Zhen Peng, Yihua Chen, Wu Deng, Isaac Yu Fat Lun, Naibin Jiang, Gang Lv and Tongyu Zhou
In recent years, residents in high-rise residential complexes (HRCs) in China have been placing an increasing demand on the living quality in HRCs. Particularly, the outdoor wind conditions are garnering more attention; however, few studies on the wind c...
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Bongchan Jeong, Jungsoo Kim, Zhenjun Ma, Paul Cooper and Richard de Dear
Air conditioning (A/C) is generally responsible for a significant proportion of total building energy consumption. However, occupants? air conditioning usage patterns are often unrealistically characterised in building energy performance simulation tools...
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Jinjin Yan, Sisi Zlatanova, Jinwoo (Brian) Lee and Qingxiang Liu
With the growing complexity of indoor living environments, people have an increasing demand for indoor navigation. Currently, navigation path options in indoor are monotonous as existing navigation systems commonly offer single-source shortest-distance o...
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Yafei Zhao, Paolo Vincenzo Genovese and Zhixing Li
With the improvement of technologies, people?s demand for intelligent devices of indoor and outdoor living environments keeps increasing. However, the traditional control system only adjusts living parameters mechanically, which cannot better meet the re...
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Natalia Borzino, Samuel Chng, Muhammad Omer Mughal and Renate Schubert
In many countries, urban heat island (UHI) effects come along with urbanization in metropolitan areas. They have relevant adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of citizens. Singapore is strongly affected by UHI. In this study, we assess Singaporean...
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Giorgio Agugiaro, Francisco Gabriel García González and Roberto Cavallo
In urban planning, a common unit of measure for housing density is the number of households per hectare. However, the actual size of the physical space occupied by a household, i.e., a dwelling, is seldom considered, neither in 2D nor in 3D. This article...
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Javier García-Germán
Pág. 98 - 100
During the last two decades, in the context of a growing awareness of the environment and climate change, architecture has explored the design opportunities opened up by the fields of thermodynamics and ecology. Focusing on the quantitative and performan...
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