Energy efficient houses for heat stress mitigation: 2009 Melbourne heatwave scenarios

10th International Conference on Healthy Buildings 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 899-904

  Ren, Zhengen ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^a   Chen, Zhengdong ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heatwave; Housing energy efficiency; Mitigation; Modelling

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY; BUILDING SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HEATWAVE; MITIGATION; VULNERABLE GROUPS;

AIR CONDITIONING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH RISKS; HOUSES; MODELS;

HEATING;

EID: 84883393629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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