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Romina Rissetto and Marcel Schweiker
Rising global temperatures have increased the need for research into human adaptability and comfort in buildings. To reduce comfort-related energy demands, low-energy-consumption alternatives for space cooling, such as personal environmental control syst...
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Zhaofei Xu, Weidong Lu, Zhenyu Hu, Wei Yan, Wei Xue, Ta Zhou and Feifei Jiang
Different types of buildings in different climate zones have their own design specifications and specific user populations. Generally speaking, these populations have similar sensory feedbacks in their perception of environmental thermal comfort. Existin...
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Yunxiang Cui, De Yan and Zhiqiang Wan
Soaring birds can use thermal updrafts in natural environments to fly for long periods or distances. The flight strategy of soaring birds can be implemented to gliders to increase their flight time. Currently, studies on soaring flight strategies focus o...
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Jiachi Zhao, Jun Li and Lifang Zeng
Birds and experienced glider pilots frequently use atmospheric updrafts for long-distance flight and energy conservation, with harvested energy from updrafts serving as the foundation. Inspired by their common characteristics in autonomous soaring, a rei...
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Gisela Lameira, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos, Nuno Valentim and Azar Mohammadpanah
Custom-built solutions for ageing, urban regeneration, energy efficiency, thermal performance, and well-being are contemporary challenges that have prompted considerable research over the past decades. In the construction field, subjects such as energy e...
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Tania Rus, Raluca Moldovan, Horatiu Albu and Dorin Beu
The indoor environmental quality of a building has attracted everyone?s attention since a worldwide pandemic was declared and forced people indoors. After several months, people were able to return to their usual activities, but with strict safety measur...
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Katarina Bäcklund, Marco Molinari and Per Lundqvist
Energy-intense activities and the unpredictable and complex behavior of building occupants lead to an increase in building energy demand. It is, therefore, crucial to study underlying factors for building energy demand related to the users. Higher educat...
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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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Yongkai Sun, Xi Luo and Hui Ming
Owing to movement in the spatial environment and changes in activity levels, students? thermal perception is time varying in classrooms throughout different periods of the day. However, previous studies have rarely considered the time-varying thermal per...
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Giovanni Tardioli, Ricardo Filho, Pierre Bernaud and Dimitrios Ntimos
The estimation of indoor thermal comfort and the associated occupant feedback in office buildings is important to provide satisfactory and safe working environments, enhance the productivity of personnel, and to reduce complaints. The assessment of therm...
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