The relationship between interior office space and employee health and well-being–a literature review

S Colenberg, T Jylhä, M Arkesteijn - Building Research & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Health is a trending topic in the office market, yet scientific research on healthy offices is
scattered. This study undertakes a systematic literature review on the relationship between …

Occupants' window opening behaviour: A literature review of factors influencing occupant behaviour and models

V Fabi, RV Andersen, S Corgnati, BW Olesen - Building and environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Energy consumption in buildings is influenced by several factors related to the building
properties and the building controls, some of them highly connected to the behaviour of their …

Progress in thermal comfort research over the last twenty years

RJ de Dear, T Akimoto, EA Arens, G Brager… - Indoor …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and the urgency of decarbonizing the built environment are driving
technological innovation in the way we deliver thermal comfort to occupants. These …

Personal comfort systems: A review on comfort, energy, and economics

R Rawal, M Schweiker, OB Kazanci, V Vardhan… - Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems are designed to
condition the entire building volume. In contrast, Personal Comfort Systems (PCS) target …

A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort

JK Day, C McIlvennie, C Brackley, M Tarantini… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, research has emerged to quantitatively and qualitatively understand
occupants' interactions with buildings. However, there has been surprisingly little research …

Window opening behaviour modelled from measurements in Danish dwellings

R Andersen, V Fabi, J Toftum, SP Corgnati… - Building and …, 2013 - Elsevier
A method of defining occupants' window opening behaviour patterns in simulation
programs, based on measurements is proposed. Occupants' window opening behaviour has …

A roadmap towards intelligent net zero-and positive-energy buildings

D Kolokotsa, D Rovas, E Kosmatopoulos, K Kalaitzakis - Solar energy, 2011 - Elsevier
Buildings nowadays are increasingly expected to meet higher and more complex
performance requirements: they should be sustainable; use zero-net energy; foster a healthy …

From occupants to occupants: A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control

T Yang, A Bandyopadhyay, Z O'Neill, J Wen, B Dong - Building simulation, 2022 - Springer
Occupants are the core of the built environment. Traditional heating, ventilation, and air-
conditioning (HVAC) systems operate with predefined schedules and maximum occupancy …

Evolving opportunities for providing thermal comfort

G Brager, H Zhang, E Arens - Building Research & Information, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The building industry needs a fundamental paradigm shift in its notion of comfort, to find low-
energy ways of creating more thermally dynamic and non-uniform environments that bring …

The response of human thermal perception and skin temperature to step-change transient thermal environments

H Liu, J Liao, D Yang, X Du, P Hu, Y Yang, B Li - Building and environment, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper investigates human thermal perception and skin temperatures in step-change
transient thermal environments. Three transient processes were designed in climate …