TY - JOUR
T1 - Indoor thermal environment of urban residential buildings in China
T2 - Winter investigation in five major cities
AU - Yoshino, H.
AU - Guan, S.
AU - Lun, Y. F.
AU - Mochida, A.
AU - Shigeno, T.
AU - Yoshino, Y.
AU - Zhang, Q. Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
The current study is supported by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology under the contract no. 13574007. The authors would like to thank Dr. Jianlei Niu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Professor Jiaping Liu (Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology) and the graduate students of these two universities for their great cooperation in the investigation. The authors also give thanks to Dr. Jing Liu (Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.) and Miss Haihong Lou (Atmax Co., Ltd.) for their cooperation in this study.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - The purposes of this investigation are to look into the actual conditions of urban residential indoor environment in China during the winter season, and to discuss the thermal comfort as well as to understand the possibility of space heating energy conservation. Investigations of indoor thermal environment were carried out in Harbin, Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai and Hong Kong of China. The results showed that the indoor thermal condition in heating usage zone is good, such as Harbin, Beijing and Xi'an. The indoor thermal comfort is strongly affected by the outdoor climate in non-heating usage zone, such as Shanghai and Hong Kong.
AB - The purposes of this investigation are to look into the actual conditions of urban residential indoor environment in China during the winter season, and to discuss the thermal comfort as well as to understand the possibility of space heating energy conservation. Investigations of indoor thermal environment were carried out in Harbin, Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai and Hong Kong of China. The results showed that the indoor thermal condition in heating usage zone is good, such as Harbin, Beijing and Xi'an. The indoor thermal comfort is strongly affected by the outdoor climate in non-heating usage zone, such as Shanghai and Hong Kong.
KW - China
KW - Field measurement
KW - Indoor thermal environment
KW - Questionnaire survey
KW - Residential building
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U2 - 10.1016/j.enbuild.2003.09.015
DO - 10.1016/j.enbuild.2003.09.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4944260982
SN - 0378-7788
VL - 36
SP - 1227
EP - 1233
JO - Energy and Buildings
JF - Energy and Buildings
IS - 12
ER -