The indoor environment directly affects health and comfort as humans spend most of the day
indoors. However, improperly controlled ventilation systems can expend unnecessary …

This paper reviews the most used thermal comfort models and indicators with their variants,
discussing their usage in control problems referring to energy management in indoor …

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

Occupant behavior has significant impacts on building energy performance and occupant
comfort. However, occupant behavior is not well understood and is often oversimplified in …

Buildings consume a significant amount of energy, estimated at about one-third of total
primary energy resources. Building energy efficiency has turned out to be a major issue in …

In the past twenty years, more stringent energy codes and environmental standards have led
to many higher performance building designs that use less energy. Oftentimes, high …

This study evaluates and compares two prevalent methods for assessing thermal comfort in
commercial buildings: Fanger's method and the Adaptive method. Through a detailed …

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems provide the people working/living
inside buildings with 'conditioned air'so that they will have a comfortable and safe …

Thermal comfort and occupant thermal satisfaction are critical aspects in the indoor
environment quality assessment and have received considerable attention by designers and …

This paper presents an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for a smart building which provides
human care services for occupants. The individual health profiles of the occupants are …