[Greenbuilding] FW: Special Issue: Counting the Costs of Comfort

[Jason Holstine]

Thought this may be of interest to some of ya¹ll:



Dear colleagues,

A special issue of Building Research & Information (BRI) is now published,
"Counting the Costs of Comfort". Sue Roaf and Fergus Nicol were the guest
editors. Four articles are free to download directly from the website. If
you are interested in reading the other articles (based on their abstracts
on the website) then please contact me by email (which is located at the end
of this message) stating which article(s) interest you and I will send you a
digital version.

A large proportion of the operational energy used in buildings relates to
the provision of comfortable, or at least acceptable, indoor environments.
Forecasts for future climates (extreme weather and other pattern shifts)
raise questions about the interactions between a changing climate and the
provision of thermal comfort, e.g. assessments of vulnerability, how thermal
comfort can be re-defined and how both inhabitants and the current / future
buildings can be made safe. This special issue explores what it means for
buildings to be designed or adapted for a future climate at an affordable
economic and environmental cost. The emerging research presents several
viable approaches and solutions to the provision of thermal comfort. For
example, one of the papers, "Evaluation of cooling effects: outdoor water
mist fan <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2015.1004844>
" explores an ultra low energy approach to cooling that can reduce heat
stress in large numbers of people during a heatwave.

List of articles

"Counting the costs of comfort
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2014.998948> "
S. Roaf, L. Brotas and F. Nicol
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2014.998948


"Evolving opportunities for providing thermal comfort
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2015.993536> "
G. Brager, H. Zhang and E. Arens
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2015.993536


"Thermal pleasure in built environments: physiology of alliesthesia
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2015.989662> "
T. Parkinson and R. de Dear
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2015.989662


"Perceived control in indoor environments: a conceptual approach"
R.T. Hellwig


"Urban social housing resilience to excess summer heat"
A. Mavrogianni, J. Taylor, M. Davies, C Thoua and J. Kolm-Murray


"Evaluation of cooling effects: outdoor water mist fan
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2015.1004844> "
C. Farnham, K. Emura and T. Mizuno
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2015.1004844


"Personal heating: effectiveness and energy use"
J. Verhaart, M. Vesely and W. Zeiler


"Behavioural responses to cold thermal discomfort"
S. Gauthier and D. Shipworth


"Investigating the principal adaptive comfort relationships for young
children"
D. Teli, P.A.B. James and M.F. Jentsch


"Adaptive thermal comfort in Australian school classrooms"
R. de Dear, J. Kim, C. Candido and M. Deuble

Kind regards,
Richard Lorch

Richard Lorch, Editor in Chief
Building Research & Information
E: richard at rlorch.net
W: www.rbri.co.uk <http://www.rbri.co.uk>
Follow us on Twitter: @Carrie_BRI   @lorchBRI
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