The indoor environment directly affects health and comfort as humans spend most of the day
indoors. However, improperly controlled ventilation systems can expend unnecessary …

The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature to draw an understanding of the
relationship between indoor environmental quality and occupant productivity in an office …

The aim of this paper is to review the literature on human thermal comfort in the built
environment. First an overview about the subject area is presented. This is followed by a …

This paper reviews the most used thermal comfort models and indicators with their variants,
discussing their usage in control problems referring to energy management in indoor …

In recent years, adaptive thermal comfort models have been integrated into several building
design and operations regulatory documents. Although the theoretical background of the …

Thermal environment is one of the main factors that influence occupants' comfort and their
productivity in office buildings. There is ample research that outlines this relationship …

This paper presents a literature review of thermal comfort. Both rational and adaptive
thermal comfort approaches are presented. An overview of the human body …

Seasonal variation of thermal comfort demands directly affects the energy needs for heating
or cooling purpose. In previous studies, the differences of neutral temperatures between …

This paper presents an exhaustive overview of the field studies carried out in the past few
decades on human thermal comfort. To get a better grasp of patterns in observed data and …

Urban green spaces (UGS) can help to moderate the urban heat island effect and thus
thermal comfort through the impact of landscape design parameters with regard to the land …