The indoor environment handbook how to make buildings healthy and comfortable /

Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective. It begins with a guide to how the human body and senses react to different i...

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Main Author: Bluyssen, Philomena M.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
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504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 # |a PART I. HUMANS AND THE INDOOR ENVIRONMENT: Health, comfort and indoor environmental control -- Human reception and perception -- The indoor environment -- PART II. HEALTH AND COMFORT IN THE INDOOR ENVIRONMENT: Past, present and future of health and comfort in the indoor environment -- Defining health and comfort in the indoor environment -- Drivers of health and comfort in the indoor environment -- PART III. MANAGEMENT OF THE INDOOR ENVIRONMENT: An interactive and sustainable approach -- The top down approach -- The individual interactions -- Summary and conclusions. 
520 # # |a Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective. It begins with a guide to how the human body and senses react to different indoor environmental conditions, together with basic information on the parameters of the indoor environment and problems that can occur. It then moves on to give a background to the development of the study and control of the indoor environment, examining the main considerations (including thermal, l. 
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