... consisting room temperature, relative humidity and illuminance level. Field study and questionnaire survey were carried out for three institutional building particularly management department. Spearman’s correlation analysis was conducted to establish the relationship between the physical environment comfort...

... further review. Design/methodology/approach The response of a room to the difference between internal and external temperatures is used to demonstrate patterns in thermal response across monitored rooms in a single building, to clearly show where rooms are under-performing in terms of their ability...

...Hamiane Messaoud; Assafsaf Cherifa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of humidity and temperature on the deterioration of the building stones of the Imedghassen Mausoleum located in Batna, Algeria. Design/methodology/approach Thermo-hygro buttons were used to control...

...) theoretical calculations and that building users’ perceived improvements to indoor relative humidity, temperature and background noise levels were minimal. The strongest perceived improvement was for work environment aesthetics. Findings demonstrate the potential of indoor plants to reduce carbon emissions...

... calculations. Bjarne W. Olesen can be contacted at: bwo@mek.dtu.dk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Standards Heating and ventilation services Temperature Lighting systems Noise control European Parliament and Council approved, in December 2002, a directive on the energy...

... would be severely deteriorated. It is well known that PMV is the thermal comfort index that can fulfill this requirement. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Office buildings Statistical methods Productivity rate Temperature Hong Kong Fanger (1972) conducted a series...