Summer Comfort in Exposed Concrete Free Running Buildings

Health and Comfort in Buildings

1. History of buildings and health 1.1 Environmental issues 2. Health effects 2.1 Developing countries 2.2 Developed countries 2.2.1 Cancer 2.2.2 Allergy 2.2.3 Other hypersensitivity reactions 2.2.4 Airways infections 3. Indoor exposures associated with health effects 3.1 Air quality 3.2 Odor 3.3 Chemical compounds 3.4 Particles 3.5 Micro-organisms 3.6 The “Lamp-Post Effect” 3.7 Temperature, an...

Reflections on Concrete Buildings*

Ionizing Radiation in Concrete and Concrete Buildings – Empirical Assessment

The project had a reference group with people from the different members of the Swedish Consortium as well as tutors representing the Royal Institute of Stockholm (KTH), department of Civil and The author is very grateful to my supervisors and especially Professor Johan Silfwerbrand, who always tried to make time for discussion, evaluation and fruitful guiding in the process to finalize the the...

Lightning-Generated Fields in Reinforced concrete Buildings

This contribution presents a study, model and validation of the amplitudes of the residual fields inside a one-story building for different locations of lightning impacts. The special case where a second gridded structure exist inside the main building, forming a box-in-the-box configuration, is analyzed. We show also that formulas for magnetic field attenuation found in the relevant IEC docume...

The globe thermometer in comfort and environmental studies in buildings

The reasons for the inferior performance of many existing buildings and associated energy systems are diverse, but an important part-cause is insufficient attention to the influence of occupant behaviour. In smart buildings it is necessary to allow for the integration of human behaviour in the HVAC system. In addition, many researchers are limited in their investigation by not having low cost t...