This research paper offers a thorough examination of strategies geared towards enhancing
thermal comfort within constructed spaces through the incorporation of state-of-the-art …

Buildings consume about 40% of globally-produced energy. A notable amount of this energy
is used to provide sufficient comfort levels to the building occupants. Moreover, given recent …

Historically thermal comfort in buildings has been controlled by simple dry bulb temperature
settings. As we move into more sophisticated low energy building systems that make use of …

Understanding thermal comfort is important to architecture, since it not only lays the
foundation for building design, but also affects the field of sustainable design. Contemporary …

This paper presents and evaluates a prototype smartphone/server software service entitled
the Occupant Mobile Gateway (OMG), developed to collect and analyze real-time occupant …

Meeting and exceeding requirements for indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and acoustic
and visual quality1 can lead to optimized environments that maximize well-being and …

Buildings consume 40% of total energy in the United States and approximately 48% of
which is consumed by Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC). This highlights the …

Thermal comfort of building occupants is a major criterion in evaluating the performance of
building systems. It is also a dominant factor in designing and optimizing building's …

Thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) issues have gained significant interest in the
scientific and technical community involved in building performance analysis and other …

In buildings, one or a combination of systems (eg, central HVAC system, ceiling fan, desk
fan, personal heater, and foot warmer) are often responsible for providing thermal comfort to …