Indoor thermal comfort for residential buildings in hot-dry climate of Nigeria

Proceedings of Conference: Adapting to Change: New Thinking on Comfort, WINDSOR 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Akande, Oluwafemi K ^a   Adebamowo, Micheal A ^b  

^a ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Climate; Residential buildings; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ENERGY USE IN BUILDINGS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; NORTHERN NIGERIA; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; THERMAL COMFORT INDEX; WAYS OF THINKING;

BUILDINGS; GLOBAL WARMING; SUN;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84876269400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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