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Ioannis Sakellaris, Giannis Papadopoulos, Dikaia Saraga, Thalia Xenofontos, Evangelos Tolis, Giorgos Panaras and John Bartzis
This study investigated the indoor environment quality (IEQ) of eight office buildings of interest due to: (a) their location at the region of Western Macedonia, Greece, which is an area characterized by aggravated air quality and is currently in a trans...
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Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Tim Sharpe, Gráinne McGill and Filbert Musau
The ongoing climate change and policies around it are changing how we design and build homes to meet national carbon emission targets. Some countries such as Scotland are adopting higher-energy-efficient buildings as minimum requirements in the building ...
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Gloria Pérez, Fernando Martín-Consuegra, Fernando de Frutos, Arturo Martínez, Ignacio Oteiza, Borja Frutos and Carmen Alonso
The optical response of opaque materials in an urban envelope plays an important role in a city?s energy exchange with the environment as it defines the absorption of radiation and emission of heat. In the present work, the most common surfaces of the fi...
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Jeanette Maria Pedersen, Farah Jebaei and Muhyiddine Jradi
A well-designed and properly operated building automation and control system (BACS) is key to attaining energy-efficient operation and optimal indoor conditions. In this study, three healthcare facilities of a different type, age, and use are considered ...
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Mastura Adam, Ammar Al-Sharaa, Norafida Ab Ghafar, Riyadh Mundher, Shamsul Abu Bakar and Ameer Alhasan
Visual comfort has a critical effect that significantly influences public appreciation of urban environments. Although colour is an integral part of billboard design, little empirical evidence exists to support some of the popularly held ideas about the ...
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Nicola Lolli, Alessandro Nocente and Steinar Grynning
The influence of different control strategies on the user?s satisfaction in cell offices was studied in a full-scale facility in Trondheim, Norway. Eleven participants used two test cells as a workspace and answered a computer-based questionnaire for rep...
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Victor Ruiz-Aviles, Anthony Brazel, Jonathan M. Davis and David Pijawka
Extreme heat threatens desert city residents throughout the hot summer months and inhibits outdoor recreation and activity. Ecosystem services provide various benefits for urban environments. For desert cities, few are more critical than microclimate reg...
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Eichi Kosaka, Akiko Iida, Jennifer Vanos, Ariane Middel, Makoto Yokohari and Robert Brown
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be held in July and August. As these are the hottest months in Tokyo, the risk of heat stress to athletes and spectators in outdoor sporting events is a serious concern. This study focuses on the marathon races, which ar...
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Fabien Leurent, Cyril Pivano, Alexis Poulhès
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Traffic along a transit line involves two kinds of mobile entities: passengers versus vehicles. The paper develops a stochastic model to deal with: headways between successive runs serving stations, wait times at boarding stations, passenger flows per ve...
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Annamária Lehoczky, José A. Sobrino, Dra?en Skokovic and Enric Aguilar
Extreme heat poses significant risks to the world?s growing urban population, and the heat stress to human health is likely to escalate with the anthropogenically increased temperatures projected by climate models. Thus, the additional heat from the urba...
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