Studying the adaptive comfort approach within a hot dry climate: A case study in educational buildings in the Egyptian climate.

Proceedings of Conference: Air Conditioning and the Low Carbon Cooling Challenge - Windsor 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Farghal, Amgad ^a   Wagner, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comfort semantics; Cultural discrepancies; Field study; Non western thermal insulation (clo) values; Questionnaire design

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE COMFORT; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CULTURAL DISCREPANCIES; EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS; EGYPTIANS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTIONS; FIELD STUDIES; NON WESTERN THERMAL INSULATION (CLO) VALUES; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN;

AIR CONDITIONING; SEMANTICS; SURVEYS;

SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

EID: 84860785921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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