Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice: Principles and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138430808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 186 str.

Fergus Nicol

Opis

With the deadline for achieving the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) less than a decade away, the uneven progress is raising important questions about the ability of the international community to 'scale up' its efforts to finance the goals. Securing adequate financing for development has thus become the most pressing issue of the development agenda. This groundbreaking volume, by leading development economists and practitioners, addresses the central concern for policymakers involved in long term planning for the MDGs: how to create 'fiscal space' for the MDGs and strengthen domestic resource mobilization for human development, while ensuring long-term sustainability and freedom from reliance on aid. By looking at the evidence with fresh perspectives, the authors present a novel approach by which fiscal policy can be made to work for the poor, for the long term. Published with UNDP and Revenue Watch.

Recenzje

“In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer, the challenge of designing buildings requires a new approach. This is the first in a trilogy that aims to explain how we stay comfortable by using our bodies, minds, buildings and their systems to adapt to indoor and outdoor conditions” – Building Design

Spis treści

Part 1: Theory – Building an Adaptive Model 1. Thermal Comfort – Why it is Important 2. Thermal Comfort: The Underlying Processes 3. Field Studies and the Adaptive Approach 4. The Heat Balance Approach to Defining Thermal Comfort 5. Standards, Guidelines and Legislation for the Indoor Environment 6. Low Energy Adaptive Buildings Part 2: Practice – Conducting a Survey in the Field and Analysing the Results 7. What Sort of Survey? 8. Instruments and Questionnaires 9. Experimental Method 10. Analysis and Reporting of Field Study Data

O autorze

Fergus Nicol has led a number of important research projects on comfort which have influenced thinking internationally. He has authored numerous journal articles and other publications including guidance on comfort and overheating. Fergus convenes the Network for Comfort and Energy use in Buildings and organises their regular international Windsor Conferences.

Michael Humphreys is known for his pioneering work on the adaptive approach to comfort. He has been Head of Human Factors at the Building Research Establishment, and a Research Professor at Oxford Brookes University. His current interests are the structure and modelling of human adaptive behaviour, the interactions between aspects of the environment, and their expression in standards.

Susan Roaf did her PhD on comfort and the windcatchers of Yazd, and after a decade working with Nicol and Humphreys at the Oxford Thermal Comfort Unit she is now Professor of Architectural Engineering at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. She is a teacher, researcher, designer and author and editor of 13 books including Ecohouse: A Design Guide and Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change.

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