Smart cities are a safe and productive regional service that provides their residents with a
good standard of living by optimizing resource development. Considering the nature of the …

Outdoor microclimatic conditions strongly affect the thermal comfort of pedestrians. A
transversal field survey was conducted in Guangzhou, together with micrometeorological …

Geothermal energy is a renewable energy source whose use has been increased
dramatically. It is primarily harvested by employing ground source heat pump (GSHP) …

This study conducted a series of computational fluid dynamics simulations to evaluate the
thermal comfort performance of a radiant floor cooling system when combined with different …

The continuous worsening of urban thermal environments poses a severe threat to human
health and is among the main problems associated with urban climate change and …

To create healthy indoor environments, Chinese green building evaluation standards
recommend monitoring and control of CO2 concentration in residential buildings …

Cooling-related energy consumption is growing rapidly in buildings. High-rise buildings
usually have high cooling loads and cooling-related energy consumptions. Reducing the …

The conventional control method of a collective ventilation (eg, stratum ventilation) controls
the averaged thermal environment in the occupied zone to satisfy the averaged thermal …

In recent years, an increasing number of buildings have adopted passive technologies to
meet the needs of energy saving and urban sustainable development. A conflicting …

The cooling effect of air movement significantly affects the energy-efficient provision of
thermal comfort with advanced air distribution. Existing studies merely focus on the cooling …