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Philomena M. Bluyssen
Researcher at Delft University of Technology
Publications - 127
Citations - 4531
Philomena M. Bluyssen is an academic researcher from Delft University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Indoor air quality & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 111 publications receiving 2994 citations. Previous affiliations of Philomena M. Bluyssen include Technical University of Denmark & Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
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Why, when and how do HVAC - systems pollute the indoor environment and what to do about it ? The European AIRLESS project
Philomena M. Bluyssen,Christian Cox,Olli Seppänen,Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes,Geo Clausen,Birgit Müller,Claude-Alain Roulet +6 more
TL;DR: The AIRLESS project as discussed by the authors developed strategies, principles and protocols to improve and control the performance of HVAC-systems and its components for incorporation in codes and guidelines, and the first step was to define air pollution caused by and/or originating from HVCs, to investigate ways to prevent this pollution and to define strategies to keep this pollution away.
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Ten questions concerning well-being in the built environment
Sergio Altomonte,Joseph P. Allen,Philomena M. Bluyssen,Gail Brager,Lisa Heschong,Angela Loder,Stefano Schiavon,Jennifer A. Veitch,Lily M. Wang,Pawel Wargocki +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a discussion on how to effectively design, measure, and nurture well-being in the built environment, with a specific focus on some of the key physical factors (e.g., light, temperature, sound, and air quality) of indoor environmental quality.
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The Healthy Indoor Environment: How to assess occupants' wellbeing in buildings
TL;DR: The Healthy Indoor Environment, winner of the 2016 IDEC Book Award, aims to help architects, building engineers and anyone concerned with the wellbeing of building occupants to better understand the effects of spending time in buildings on health and comfort as mentioned in this paper.
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Multicriteria analysis of health, comfort and energy efficiency in buildings
Claude-Alain Roulet,Flourentzos Flourentzou,F. Foradini,Philomena M. Bluyssen,Chrit Cox,Claire Aizlewood +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a methodology is proposed to perform a global evaluation of a building with regard to all these criteria, and a sample of 96 apartment buildings and 64 office buildings is used to determine a set of best buildings and a set that are not acceptable in terms of comfort, perceived health and energy use.
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Health, comfort and performance of children in classrooms – New directions for research
TL;DR: New generation research studies should be focussed on engagement of the children in an active way, preferable in semi-lab environments, and taking account of all aspects and interactions between them.