Indoor thermal conditions and thermal comfort in air-conditioned domestic buildings in the dry-desert climate of Kuwait

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 704-710

  Al ajmi, Farraj F ^a   Loveday, D L ^b  

^a The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training   (Kuwait)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domestic thermal comfort; Dry desert climates; Kuwait domestic buildings; Kuwait domestic indoor environments

Indexed keywords

COOLING ENERGY; DESERT CLIMATES; DESIGN CODES; DOMESTIC BUILDINGS; DOMESTIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION; DOMESTIC THERMAL COMFORT; DRY-DESERT CLIMATES; ELECTRICAL POWER CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD STUDIES; INDOOR CLIMATE; KUWAIT DOMESTIC BUILDINGS; KUWAIT DOMESTIC INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; POLICY MAKING; PREDICTED MEAN VOTE; STATISTICAL DATAS; SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION; SUMMER SEASON; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL SENSATIONS;

AIR CONDITIONING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY POLICY; LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING; BUILDING CODE; DESERT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INDOOR AIR; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

ASIA; EURASIA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70449528678     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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