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Bacon, M (2014) Occupancy analytics: a new basis for low-energy?low-carbon hospital design and operation in the UK. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 146-63.
Christina, S, Dainty, A, Daniels, K and Waterson, P (2014) How organisational behaviour and attitudes can impact building energy use in the UK retail environment: a theoretical framework. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 164-79.
Gram-Hanssen, K (2014) New needs for better understanding of household's energy consumption ? behaviour, lifestyle or practices?. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 91-107.
Kaluarachchi, Y and Jones, K (2014) Promoting low-carbon home adaptations and behavioural change in the older community. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 131-45.
Mokhtar Azizi, N S, Wilkinson, S and Fassman, E (2014) Management practice to achieve energy-efficient performance of green buildings in New Zealand. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 25-39.
Mulville, M, Jones, K and Huebner, G (2014) The potential for energy reduction in UK commercial offices through effective management and behaviour change. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 79-90.
Palmer, J, Bennetts, H, Pullen, S, Zuo, J, Ma, T and Chileshe, N (2014) The effect of dwelling occupants on energy consumption: the case of heat waves in Australia. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 40-59.
Spataru, C and Gauthier, S (2014) How to monitor people ?smartly? to help reducing energy consumption in buildings?. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 60-78.
Tweed, C, Dixon, D, Hinton, E and Bickerstaff, K (2014) Thermal comfort practices in the home and their impact on energy consumption. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 1-24.
- Type: Journal Article
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- ISBN/ISSN: 1745-2007
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2013.837243
- Abstract:
Existing theories have little to say about thermal comfort in the home. Most previous studies have focused on non-domestic buildings in which the occupants have limited opportunities to change the ambient environmental conditions. At home, people generally have greater freedom and, subject to the capabilities of the building and its systems, can decide and create conditions they consider comfortable. This paper reports on a detailed study of thermal comfort practices and energy consumption in different dwellings in South Wales using mixed methods to record physical conditions and householders' accounts of how and why they create those conditions. The methodology includes a robust form of thermal comfort survey that has enabled us to link reported comfort votes to measurements of prevailing environmental conditions. Householders also participated in in-depth interviews to describe how they maintain comfort in their everyday lives. This study reveals diverse time-varying profiles of thermal conditions, in which there are significant differences in temperatures in the main living spaces and in the temperature distribution, for example, between living rooms and bedrooms. It shows how householders develop a range of behaviours, skills and knowledge to create thermal conditions they consider acceptable rather than those predicted by conventional comfort theories.
Zeiler, W, Vissers, D, Maaijen, R and Boxem, G (2014) Occupants? behavioural impact on energy consumption: ?human-in-the-loop? comfort process control. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(01), 108-30.