Browsing by Subject "Adaptive model"

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    • A comparative analysis of thermal acceptability in offices in India and Japan 

      Ooka, Ryozo; Indragant, Madhavi; Rijal, Hom B. ( NCEUB 2016 , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      India's building energy consumption is increasing rapidly. Fukushima disaster reshaped Japan's energy perspective. Adaptive comfort standards need to be developed for these countries. We conducted a fourteen-month thermal ...

    • An adaptive relationship of thermal comfort for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: The case of offices in Qatar 

      Indraganti M.; Boussaa D. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      Escalating building energy expenditure encourages rethinking on thermal comfort delivery in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in warm desert climate. The GCC states do not have an adaptive comfort standard, or ...

    • Comfort temperature and occupant adaptive behavior in offices in Qatar during summer 

      Indraganti, Madhavi; Boussaa, Djamel ( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)
      Qatar tops the world in per capita CO2 emissions and per capita total primary energy supply. Adaptive comfort standards and thermal comfort field survey data are not available for Qatar. We conducted a thermal comfort ...

    • Occupant behavior in Indian apartments 

      Indraganti, M.; Indraganti, Madhavi ( Springer, Singapore , 2018 , Book chapter)
      © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018. Occupant adaptation happens to be the key mechanism behind achieving thermal comfort in buildings. User's thermal adaptation is under researched in India, although it is important ...

    • Thermal comfort in Indian apartments 

      Indraganti, Madhavi; Rao, Kavita Daryani ( Springer Singapore , 2018 , Book chapter)
      © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018. Socio-political and economic drivers can be historically traced behind the apartment' evolutionary trajectory. Absence and poor adherence to norms appear to have caused thermal ...