Occupant responses and office work performance in environments with moderately drifting operative temperatures (RP-1269)

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 931-960

  Kolarik, Jakub ^a   Toftum, J⊘rn ^a   Olesen, Bjarne W ^a   Shitzer, Avharam ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS;

CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE; PERCEIVED AIR QUALITY; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL SENSATIONS;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 77949276991     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2009.10390873     Document Type: Article

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