The role of a building's thermal properties on pupils' thermal comfort in junior school classrooms as determined in field studies

Building and Environment

Volumn 82, Issue , 2014, Pages 640-654

  Teli, Despoina ^a   Jentsch, Mark F ^b   James, Patrick A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate; School buildings; School children; Thermal adaptation; Thermal comfort; Thermal mass

Indexed keywords

THERMAL COMFORT;

CLIMATE; IN-FIELD; SCHOOL CHILDREN; THERMAL ADAPTATION; THERMAL MASS;

SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

EID: 84908605762     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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