Chapter 1 - Thermal comfort and the development of bioclimatic concept in building design

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 3-24

  Sayigh, Ali ^a   Hamid Marafia, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BUILDING CODES; CLIMATE CONTROL;

BIOCLIMATIC CHARTS; MAHONY TABLES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0032010407     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1364-0321(98)00009-4     Document Type: Article

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