The urban microclimate is gradually changing due to climate change, extreme weather conditions, urbanization, and the heat island effect. In such an altered environment, outdoor thermal comfort can have a strong impact on public health quality of life in areas. this study, three main areas Serbia were selected: Belgrade (Central Serbia), Novi Sad (Northern Niš (Southern Serbia). focus was tempo...

In this research, we developed an "Indoor and Outdoor Environment Energy Visualization System" that supports energy-efficient living while maintaining comfort safety, conducted a long-term system operation experiment targeting detached houses.

This study aims to improve the prediction accuracy of the rational standard thermal comfort model, known as the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) model, by (1) calibrating one of its input variables "metabolic rate," and (2) extending it by explicitly incorporating the variable running mean outdoor temperature (RMOT) that relates to adaptive thermal comfort. The analysis was performed with survey data ...

European Concerted Action "lndoor Air Quality and Its Impact on Man ". Report No. I I: Guidelines for Ventilation Requirements in Buildings. Office for Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1992. These Guidelines recommend the ventilation required to obtain a desired indoor air quality in a space. The first step is to decide the air quality aimed for in the ventilated space. A c...

Thermal comfort under non-steady-state conditions primarily deals with rapid environmental transients and significant alterations of the meteorological conditions, activity, or clothing pattern within the time scale of some minutes. In such cases, thermal history plays an important role in respect to time, and thus, a dynamic approach is appropriate. The present study aims to investigate the dy...

The main objectives of this study were to investigate vernacular passive cooling techniques and their potential application for improving indoor thermal comfort of naturally ventilated, modern brick terraced houses in Malaysia. Field measurement was conducted in two traditional timber Malay houses and two traditional masonry Chinese shophouses to examine their indoor thermal environments. The r...

Outdoor thermal conditions influence the quality of life in urban commons. Urban vegetation is an effective way to improve pedestrian comfort tropics as it provides shade, reduces surface heating, improves air quality, and human health. The primary objective this study understand correlation between Sky View Factor (SVF) modifications Outdoor Thermal Comfort (OTC) that could ...

Most existing building automation systems are operated with rule-based settings. These systems are wasting a lot of energy because the systems can not properly cope with changes in indoor/outdoor environments. In this paper, we propose hybrid inference for inferring indoor environments in the building using real-time stream data coming from BAS. Hybrid inference consists of Runtime Stream Proce...

The benefits of rooftop greening are ascertained in thermal perspective. It effectively reduces the near surface ambient temperature and the reflected irradiation from the rooftop slab, thus increasing the thermal comfort environment above the lawn and reduces the heat transferred through the rooftop slab. The former effect enables the potential usage of the rooftop spaces for human activity an...