Effectiveness of thermal comfort models to evaluate occupants' satisfaction levels in office buildings

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue , 2011, Pages 372-379

  Siew, C C ^a   Che Ani, A I ^b   Tawil, N M ^b   Goh Abdullah, N A ^b   Utaberta, N ^b  

^a School of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Integrated approach introduction; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

BUILDING INDUSTRY; BUILDING LAYOUT; BUILDING ZONES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED EVALUATION; MODEL FRAMEWORK; NATURAL VENTILATION; OPERATION MODEL; THERMAL COMFORT LEVEL; VENTILATION EFFECTIVENESS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; OFFICE BUILDINGS; VENTILATION;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84855692010     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.11.179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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