Building resilience to overheating into 1960's UK hospital buildings within the constraint of the national carbon reduction target: Adaptive strategies

Building and Environment

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 73-95

  Short, C A ^a   Lomas, K J ^b   Giridharan, R ^b   Fair, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Changing climate; Hospitals; Overheating; Refurbishment; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; CARBON REDUCTION; CHANGING CLIMATE; ECONOMIC CLIMATES; ENERGY DEMANDS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; HOSPITAL BUILDINGS; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; MEASURED DATA; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; OVERHEATING; PATIENT SAFETY; PUBLIC SECTOR; REFURBISHMENT; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SAVING ENERGY; THERMAL MODEL;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; VENTILATION;

HOSPITALS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; VENTILATION;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84860448222     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.02.031     Document Type: Article

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