There are many references to the WHO guidance on thermal comfort in housing, but not to the original source material …

, consequently, have implications in the perception of indoor air quality, local thermal comfort, and energy savings. These energy … conditions closer to thermal neutrality, with corresponding energy savings. …

Energy consumption in Spanish school buildings is higher during spring seasons. Thermal inertia of buildings can help … thermal conditions and energy consumption. …

In today’s world, the significance of energy and energy conservation is a common knowledge. Wind towers can save the … electrical energy used to provide thermal comfort during the warm months of the year, especially during the peak hours. In this … major advantage of wind towers is that they are passive systems requiring no energy for operation. Also, wind towers reduce …

, giving rise to an oversized road infrastructure, electricity generation capacity and housing stock. Weaknesses in labour …

efficiency of the housing stock. High quality data on the energy efficiency of buildings and their related energy demand is …The UK Government has unveiled an ambitious retrofit programme that seeks significant improvement to the energy … critical to supporting and targeting investment in energy efficiency. Using existing home improvement programmes over the past …

This paper assesses the effects on suburbia of an energy transition to less carbon- or petroleum-intensive energy urban … complex ‘assemblage’ that is configured through socio-material relations of land use, transport technology, energy and … suburbia faces a number of socio-technical challenges from an energy transition principally due to heavy mobility reliance on …

renovation of social housing, and to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of their application for energy renovations in … social housing organizations from eight EU countries, and a series of 14 interviews with energy renovation experts from ten … to indicate the main characteristics of the current energy renovations carried out by European social housing …