Thermal comfort in classrooms in the tropics

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 337-351

  Wong, Nyuk Hien ^a   Khoo, Shan Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Classroom; Thermal comfort; Tropics

Indexed keywords

COOLING; RADIANT HEATING; TROPICAL BUILDINGS; TROPICS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

EID: 0037401813     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(02)00109-3     Document Type: Article

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