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Overcooling of offices reveals gender inequity in thermal comfort

Growth in energy use for indoor cooling tripled between 1990 and 2016 to outpace any other end use in buildings. Part of this energy demand is wasted on excessive cooling of offices, a practice known as overcooling. Overcooling has been attributed to poorly designed or managed air-conditioning syste...

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Autores principales: Parkinson, Thomas, Schiavon, Stefano, de Dear, Richard, Brager, Gail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8655064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34880349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03121-1