Thermal environment of natural ventilated preschool buildings in warm-humid climates

ISBEIA 2012 - IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 664-667

  Ismail, Zitty Sarah ^a   Darus, Fairus Muhamad ^a   Salleh, Naziah Muhamad ^b   Sumari, Siti Mariam ^a   Harun, Nik Khairun Nisa Che ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Indoor thermal environment; Preschool buildings; Temperature; Warm humid climate

Indexed keywords

AIR VELOCITIES; INDOOR THERMAL ENVIRONMENTS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; PRE SCHOOLS; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL SENSATION VOTES; THERMAL STATE; WARM-HUMID CLIMATES;

AIR; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SURVEYS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL COMFORT;

SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

EID: 84874358907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBEIA.2012.6422972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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