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Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy

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- Vol. 5
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The article was published on 1992-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5855 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Occupancy.

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Effects of thermal activated building systems in schools on thermal comfort in winter

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review is done to clear the effects of thermal quality in schools on the learning performance of the students: it clearly shows that thermal environment is like IAQ of great influence to the students' performance.
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A comparative analysis of human thermal conditions in outdoor urban spaces in the summer season in Singapore and Changsha, China.

TL;DR: The results reveal that Changsha respondents were more tolerant than Singapore respondents under hot conditions, and two regression models were proposed for Singapore and Changsha to predict the human thermal sensation in a given outdoor thermal environment.
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Comparative study on the indoor environment quality of green office buildings in China with a long-term field measurement and investigation

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the subjective and objective measurements of indoor environment quality from four parts: thermal environment, indoor air quality, visual and acoustic environment, and found that green buildings possess significantly higher satisfaction level than conventional buildings, and the actual performance of green buildings basically achieve the design goal of IEQ.
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Thermal comfort expectations and adaptive behavioural characteristics of primary and secondary school students

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that the students' 80% acceptability zone empirically derived from group mean thermal sensations, was significantly wider than the band of ± 0.85 thermal sensation votes assumed in the PMV-PPD model.
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Outdoor thermal comfort in a hot and humid climate of Colombia: A field study in Barranquilla

TL;DR: A thermal comfort survey in a hot and humid climate in Barranquilla, Colombia was carried out by as mentioned in this paper, where the ASHRAE sensorial scale of seven symmetrical points was used to evaluate thermal sensation.