Contents
Preface xiv
List of contributors xviii
Acknowledgements xxii
PART I
New approaches to comfort, occupants and resilience 1
1.The shapes of thermal comfort and resilience 3
Fergus Nicol
2. Rethinking resilient thermal comfort within the context of
human-building resilience 23
Marcel Schweiker
3. Why occupants need a role in building operation: a framework for
resilient design 39
Lisa Heschong and Julia K. Day
PART II
Climate change and comfort 53
4. The impact of future UK heat wave to the thermal resilience in office
and residential buildings - a comparison 55
Asif Din and Hala El Khorazaty
5. Resilient design in extreme clim ates: 5-step overheating assessment
method for naturally ventilated buildings 71
Daniel Zepeda-Rivas, Jorge Rodr{guez-Alvarez and Jose Roberto Carda-Chavez
PART Ill
Sleep and comfort for the old and the young 89
6. Summertime indoor temperatures and thermal comfort in nursing
care homes in London 91
Rajat Gupta and Alastair Howard
7. Assessing human resilience: a study of thermal comfort, well-being
and health of older people 108
Terence Williamson, Veronica Soebarto, Helen Bennetts, Larissa Arakawa Martins, Dino Pisaniello, Alana Hansen, Renuka Visvanathan, Andrew Carre and Joost van Hoof
8. Do children feel warmer than adults? Overheating prevention in
schools in the face of climate change 128
Marije te Kulve, Runa T Hellwig, Froukje van Dijken and Atze Boerstra
9. Causes and effects of partial cooling during sleep 141
Noriko Umemiya and Yuhan Chen
PART IV
Resilient design for buildings and cities 157
10. Overheating and passive cooling strategies in low-income residential
buildings in Abuja, Nigeria
Michael U. Adaji, Timothy 0. Adekunle and Richard Watkins 159
11. The devolution of thermal resilience in residential houses in Khartoum 175
Ruda Z.T Elsherif, Marialena Nikolopoulou and Henrik Schoenefeldt
12. Design of adaptive opportunities for people in buildings 193
Runa T Hellwig, Despoina Teli, Marcel Schweiker, Joan-Ho Choi,
M.C. Jeffrey Lee, Rodrigo Mora, Rajan Rawal, Zhaojun Wang
and Farah Al-Atrash
13. Resiliency lessons of traditional living in nomadic yurts 210
Dolaana Khovalyg
14. Passive cooling strategies for low carbon architecture 223
Pablo La Roche
15. Passive design for extreme heat: the Austrian Pavilion at EXPO 2020
in Dubai 241
Georgios Gourlis and Peter Holzer
16. Studying outdoor thermal comfort and resilience in an urban design perspective: a case study in IPOH Old Town and New Town, Malaysia 259
Mei-Yee Teoh, Michihiko Shinozaki, Kei Saito and Ismail Said
PARTV
Resilience and comfort in offices 277
17. Adaptive approaches to enhancing resilient thermal comfort in
Japanese offices 279
Hom B. Rijal, Michael A . Humphreys and]. Fergus Nicol
18. Thermal comfort and occupant disposition in mixed-mode offices in
a Brazilian subtropical climate 300
Ricardo Forgiarini Rupp, Jorn Teftum and Enedir Ghisi
19. Tools and rules for behavioural agency in buildings: minimizing
energy use while maintaining comfort 315
Julia K. Day
20. Mixed mode is better than air-conditioned offices for resilient
comfort: adaptive behaviour and Visual Thermal Landscaping 329
Sally Shahzad and Hom B. Rijal
21. Effects oflight and ambient temperature on visual and
thermal appraisals 347
Maaike Kompier, Karin Smolders and Yvonne de Kort
22. Reaching thermal comfort zone limits for resilient building
operation: a winter case study for offices 363
Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena M. Barthelmes and Arnab Chattetjee
PART VI
Indoor environmental quality, energy and life cycle analysis 379
23. Methodology of IEQ assessment in energy-efficient buildings 381
Karel Kahele, Zuzana Veverkova, Miroslav Urban
24. Flexible future comfort 398
Sanober Hassan Khattak, Andrew Wright and Sukumar Natarajan
25. Sight beyond reach: dynamic life cycle assessment to support resilient
retrofit decision-making in a changing climate 417
Vanessa Gomes, Marcella R . M. Saade, Leticia 0 . Neves, Iris Loche, Lizzie M. Pulgrossi and Maristela G. Silva
26. Indoor environmental quality, energy efficiency and thermal comfort
in the retrofitting of housing: a literature review 433
Marco Ortiz and Philomena M. Bluyssen
PART VII
The role of ventilation and radiation in cooling and heating 447
27. Double skin buildings and resilience for commercial buildings 449
Eusebio Conceifi:iO, Joi:io Gomes, Ma Ines Conceifi:iO, M" Manuela Lucio and Hazim Awbi
28. Cooling with thermally activated, radiative surfaces: resilient answers to upcoming cooling needs, extending the application range of
adaptive comfort 465
Peter Holzer and David Stuckey
29. Rethinking radiant comfort 479
Eric Teitelbaum and Forrest Meggers
PART VIII
National databases and comfort education 495
30. Towards resilient cooling possibilities for Brazilians' hot and humid
climates: exploring the national thermal comfort database 497
Carolina Buonocore, Renata De Vecchi, Greici Ramos, Maira Andre, Christhina Candido and Roberto Lamberts
31. Teaching comfort: critical approaches, digital interventions and
contemporary choices 513
Ola Uduku, BK Satish, Gillian Treacy and Yiqianq Zhao
PART IX
COVID-19: transmission and trust 529
32. How airborne transmission ofSARS-CoV-2 confirmed the need for new ways of proper ventilation
Philomena M. Bluyssen
33. COVID-19: trust, windows and the psychology of resilience
Susan Roaf
PART X
The past and future of comfort standards 583
34. Resilient comfort standards
Susan Roaf and Fergus Nicol
Index 625