The ability to operate factory buildings as free running will be very useful in the context of saving energy needed for providing adequate thermal comfort for workers in warm humid tropical climatic conditions. The upper limits of thermally comfortable temperatures were established with comfort...

The present paper focuses on the issue of thermal comfort adaptive criteria and its relevance to the implementation of passive design strategies, in the context of a field work carried out in Portugal. This field work involved monitoring and questionnaires in office buildings existing in Lisbon,...