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Michael Humphreys
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Twentieth century standards for thermal comfort
Promoting high energy buildings
The urgent need to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a bid to meet increasingly stringent GHG targets has focused the attention of scientists on the built environment. The reason is that nearly 50% of all the energy in the developed world is consumed in build
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Twenty first century standards for thermal comfort
Fostering low carbon building design and operation
Nearly 50% of energy consumed in the developed world is consumed in buildings. Despite regulation intent, many new buildings are energy profligate. Thermal comfort standards are partly responsible for this increase in consumption. In this volume, Roaf ef a/, have described the ev
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