Recent achievements in research on thermal comfort and ventilation in the aspect of providing people with appropriate conditions in different types of buildings—semi …

K Ratajczak, Ł Amanowicz, K Pałaszyńska, F Pawlak… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ventilation systems are mainly responsible for maintaining the quality of indoor air. Together
with thermal comfort maintenance systems, they create appropriate conditions for living …

Natural and mechanical ventilation concepts for indoor comfort and well-being with a sustainable design perspective: a systematic review

L Zaniboni, R Albatici - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Current literature and guidelines on sustainable design often debate on the advantages of
natural ventilation (NV) and mechanical ventilation (MV) on indoor environment and energy …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of ventilation and temperature on sleep quality and next-day work performance: pilot measurements in a climate chamber

X Fan, H Shao, M Sakamoto, K Kuga, L Lan… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ten healthy young adults slept one by one in a specially designed and constructed sleep
capsule located in a climate chamber at two temperatures (24° C and 28° C) and two …

[HTML][HTML] A field intervention study of the effects of window and door opening on bedroom IAQ, sleep quality, and next-day cognitive performance

X Fan, C Liao, MP Bivolarova, C Sekhar… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and sleep quality measurements over a period of two weeks
were performed all night in 40 bedrooms in Denmark during the heating season. In the first …

Nighttime ambient temperature and sleep in community-dwelling older adults

A Baniassadi, B Manor, W Yu, T Travison… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
This longitudinal study examines the association between bedroom nighttime temperature
and sleep quality in a sample of community dwelling older adults. Using wearable sleep …

[HTML][HTML] Learning building occupants' indoor environmental quality complaints and dissatisfaction from text-mining Booking. com reviews in the United States

N Ma, Q Zhang, F Murai, WW Braham… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional post occupancy evaluation (POE) poses a challenge to the comprehensive
knowledge of occupant dissatisfaction with indoor environmental quality (IEQ) due to the …

Association of bedroom environment with the sleep quality of elderly subjects in summer: A field measurement in Shanghai, China

Y Yan, L Lan, H Zhang, Y Sun, X Fan, DP Wyon… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sleep is essential for the health of elderly people, but few studies have made connection
between their sleep quality and their bedroom environment. This study performed field …

Emission rate of carbon dioxide while sleeping

X Fan, M Sakamoto, H Shao, K Kuga, K Ito, L Lan… - Indoor …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Humans emit carbon dioxide (CO2) as a product of their metabolism. Its concentration in
buildings is used as a marker of ventilation rate (VR) and degree of mixing of supply air, and …

A cross-sectional field study of bedroom ventilation and sleep quality in Denmark during the heating season

C Liao, X Fan, M Bivolarova, J Laverge, C Sekhar… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Parameters describing the bedroom environment and sleep quality were measured
overnight for one week in 84 randomly selected actual bedrooms in Denmark from …

Seasonal air quality in bedrooms with natural, mechanical or hybrid ventilation systems and varied window opening behavior-field measurement results

M Baborska-Narożny, M Kostka - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The article presents the results of measurements of temperature, relative humidity and CO2
concentration in six single-family houses' bedrooms located in Poland, in Wrocław and …