Constructing thermal comfort: Investigating the effect of vegetation on indoor thermal comfort through a four season thermal comfort quasi-experiment

Building and Environment

Volumn 81, Issue , 2014, Pages 410-426

  Mangone, G ^a   Kurvers, S R ^a   Luscuere, P G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Building performance; Energy consumption; Plants; Thermal comfort; Vegetation; Worker performance

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; THERMAL COMFORT; VEGETATION;

BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; CARBON EMISSIONS; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE; PLANTS; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORKER PERFORMANCE;

VEGETATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; BUILDING; ENERGY USE; INDOOR AIR; PLANT; VEGETATION; WORKPLACE; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VENTILATION;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84907323649     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.07.019     Document Type: Article

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