Abstract
This paper presents a number of case studies from a hot arid environment, covering a range of building types and sizes, among them government, university residential buildings, educational and tourist facilities. It hopefully demonstrates how preconceived ideas and lip service have hindered the creation of healthy, responsive, comfortable indoor environments, whereas a basic understanding of the local conditions and the adaptive thermal comfort model could have yielded much better results – easily achieved when appropriate design is coupled with informed users.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 3rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Environment (PALENC 2010) |
| State | Published - 29 Sep 2010 |