Indoor thermal comfort in urban courtyard block dwellings in the Netherlands

Building and Environment

Volumn 82, Issue , 2014, Pages 566-579

  Taleghani, Mohammad ^a,b   Tenpierik, Martin ^a   van den Dobbelsteen, Andy ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Cool roofs and pavements; Courtyard buildings; Heat mitigation strategies; Indoor thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; GLOBAL WARMING; HOUSING; ROOFS; THERMAL COMFORT;

COOL ROOF AND PAVEMENT; COOL ROOFS; COURTYARD BUILDING; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENERGY DEMANDS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HEAT MITIGATION STRATEGY; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; MITIGATION STRATEGY; NETHERLANDS;

PAVEMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASPHALT; BUILDING; INDOOR AIR; PAVEMENT; ROOF;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84908417289     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.09.028     Document Type: Article

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