The main aim of this work is to deve iop an overail comfort index for Portuguese building occupants that integrate ali different health and comfort parameters used in a building sustainability assessment method that is being developed. This index will be very useful to assess the heaith and cornfort performance of a solution and to compare different solutions. In parailei, the correlation between human subjective evaluation and objective measurements and the weight of each heaith and comfort stressor in the perceived global cornfort will be accessed. The study is being carried out in different educationai and offices buildings. Until now it was only possibie to carry the assessment during the heating season
The fact that people spend a major part of their lifetime indoors, together with the lethal COVID-19...
Environmental aspects are of high priority for the identification and evaluation of the parameters t...
Decades ago, the only requirement to construct a building was to give men the right conditions for t...
In 2002, the European Commission (EU) issued a Directive aiming to reduce the energy consumption of ...
In 2002, the European Commission (EU) issued a Directive aiming to reduce the energy consumption of ...
Decades ago, the only requirement to construct a building was to give men the right conditions for t...
AbstractEnvironmental assessment methods have emerged to assess the environmental performance of bui...
Environmental assessment methods have emerged to assess the environmental performance of buildings a...
The term “comfort” has a number of nuances and meanings according to the specific context. This stud...
In healthcare building projects, it is necessary to consider a larger number of different aspects th...
A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed i...
A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed i...
Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of s...
Building sustainability assessment involves various relations between built, natural and social syst...
The main aim of this work is to build a database of optimized solutions (envelop construction soluti...
The fact that people spend a major part of their lifetime indoors, together with the lethal COVID-19...
Environmental aspects are of high priority for the identification and evaluation of the parameters t...
Decades ago, the only requirement to construct a building was to give men the right conditions for t...
In 2002, the European Commission (EU) issued a Directive aiming to reduce the energy consumption of ...
In 2002, the European Commission (EU) issued a Directive aiming to reduce the energy consumption of ...
Decades ago, the only requirement to construct a building was to give men the right conditions for t...
AbstractEnvironmental assessment methods have emerged to assess the environmental performance of bui...
Environmental assessment methods have emerged to assess the environmental performance of buildings a...
The term “comfort” has a number of nuances and meanings according to the specific context. This stud...
In healthcare building projects, it is necessary to consider a larger number of different aspects th...
A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed i...
A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed i...
Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of s...
Building sustainability assessment involves various relations between built, natural and social syst...
The main aim of this work is to build a database of optimized solutions (envelop construction soluti...
The fact that people spend a major part of their lifetime indoors, together with the lethal COVID-19...
Environmental aspects are of high priority for the identification and evaluation of the parameters t...
Decades ago, the only requirement to construct a building was to give men the right conditions for t...