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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF RESILIENT THERMAL COMFORT
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF RESILIENT THERMAL COMFORT
    FERGUS NICOL
    This book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments, including temperature, light, air-quality, acoustics and so forth. It is of importance not only to the comfort people feel indoors, but also the success of any building as an environment for its stated purpose....

    $1,260.00

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  • ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT: FOUNDATIONS AND ANALYSIS
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    ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT: FOUNDATIONS AND ANALYSIS
    MICHAEL HUMPHREYS / FERGUS NICOL / SUSAN ROAF
    There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people’s future behaviour based on very...

    $1,560.00

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  • ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
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    ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
    FERGUS NICOL
    The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable bu...

    $1,280.00

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  • ADAPTING BUILDINGS AND CITIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
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    ADAPTING BUILDINGS AND CITIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
    DAVID CRICHTON / FERGUS NICOL / SUE ROAF
    From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events. Three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of env...

    $1,280.00

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  • CUTTING THE COST OF COLD
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    CUTTING THE COST OF COLD
    NICOL, FERGUS / RUDGE, JANET
    In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools available to the practitioner. The book goes on to provide clear guidance on putting theory into practice. This will be a powerful reference source and a compelling read for a wide range of...

    $2,800.00

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  • ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT
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    ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT
    SUSAN ROAF / FERGUS NICOL / MICHAEL HUMPHREYS
    To remain comfortable in a world of ever more extreme weather events and climate trends, we need a building revolution. Building designers, owners, managers, and occupants must prepare now for future climates with new ways to stay comfortable indoors. This book is a compendium of information on comfort that provides an overview of the complexity of the many ways that comfort is...

    $1,420.00

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