Removing Barriers to Environmental Comfort in the Global South

Removing Barriers to Environmental Comfort in the Global South

Trebilcock-Kelly, Maureen; Perez-Fargallo, Alexis; Wegertseder-Martinez, Paulina; Marin-Restrepo, Laura; Piderit-Moreno, Maria Beatriz

Springer International Publishing AG

05/2024

468

Mole

9783031242106

15 a 20 dias

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What are the barriers to environmental comfort in the Global South?.- Policies and standards to environmental comfort in the Global South.- Thermal performance of educational establishments in tropical climates: Case study of the Millennium Educational Units of Ecuador.- Bioclimatic comfort strategies for typical Meso-Andean dwellings in Peru.- Adaptive passive measures for tropical climates - a case study for Mauritius.- Optimized housing envelopes for Piura, Peru.- Textile Architecture in the tropics: An approach from thermal comfort and implementation feasibility.- Air movement in relation to thermal comfort in naturally ventilated building in the tropics.- Occupant thermal perception of a hybrid system based on ceiling-mounted radiant cooling panels coupled to a roof pond.- Indoor air quality in Latin American buildings.- Daylighting metrics in buildings and the regional aspect.- Perception of light sufficiency and outdoor light availability: a dynamic daylight metric for the tropics.- Daylight strategies in side-lit spaces optimized for different Chilean climate contexts.- Circadian lighting in office spaces: design factors contributing to circadian stimulation.- Impact of urban re-densification on light consumption and energy poverty on the equator, in the city of Quito.- Acoustic comfort and noise control in residential building design.- Acoustic quality of school classrooms in urban areas.- Barriers and challenges in the interior acoustics design of flexible learning spaces.- Energy poverty and thermal adaptation in Chilean social housing.- Energy implications of thermal comfort models in schools in the tropics.- Energy efficiency optimization applying adaptive thermal comfort in a public office building in San Juan, Argentina.- Passive practical constructive measures to counterbalance climate change impacts in low-income housing located in the Tropical Savannah Climate.- Impact of passive design measures on thermal comfort of social housing in the context of climate change in Montevideo, Uruguay.- Thermal adaptation in non-extreme climates to potentially reduce energy consumption.- Promoting well-being in southern latitudes. A pathway to comfort by natural conditioning.- Multicriteria decision making of bioclimatic strategies based on parametric models.- The Grille Climatique as a design tool for the Tropics.- Multi-criteria design: Optimising thermal, visual, acoustic, and respiratory comfort in school classrooms. Urban design for comfort, energy efficiency and renewable systems in social housing.- To what extent can architects and engineers depend on the adaptive behaviour of occupants to achieve indoor thermal comfort?.- To what extent can architects and engineers depend on the adaptive behaviour of occupants to achieve indoor thermal comfort?.- The paradigm of environmental comfort: unattainable goal or design tool?.- Concluding Remarks and Future Outlook.
Environmental comfort;Thermal comfort;Visual comfort;Energy efficiency;Energy poverty;Design strategies;Tropics;Developing countries;Southern hemisphere;Energy consumption;Building sector;Architecture;Engineering