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What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings

Dusan Licina

Buildings are designed to respond to functional and regulatory needs, providing comfortable conditions to occupants, offering satisfactory environmental settings, minimising health risks, and enhancing individual and collective quality of life. Although th ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

“Our Inherent Desire for Control”: a Case Study of Automation’s Impact on the Perception of Comfort

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Himanshu Verma, Arianna Brambilla, Hamed Seiied Alavi

To investigate the relationship between occupants’ perception of control over building elements and their comfort, we conducted a study where two prototype office rooms were compared: while the first room allowed occupants to open or close the window and c ...

ELSEVIER2017

Design of a time-efficient video-goniophotometer combining bidirectional functions assessment for transmission and reflection

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Marilyne Andersen, Christian Roecker

A detailed knowledge of the light distribution characteristics through advanced window systems is required to improve the visual comfort of the building's occupants while controlling the propagation of daylight in rooms and the solar gains. An innovative b ...

Elsevier2005

Multicriteria analysis of health, comfort and energy-efficiency of buildings

Claude-Alain Roulet, Niklaus Johner

In order to cope with sustainable development policy, buildings should be at least healthy, comfortable and energy efficient. Criteria for assessing individually the occupant's perceived health, the provided thermal, visual, acoustical comfort, the indoor ...

2005