Passive Discomfort Index as an alternative to Predicted Mean Vote and Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied to assess occupant’s thermal discomfort in dwellings

Besides energy poverty, a certain tolerance to discomfort justifies Portugal’s low heating energy consumption. Once Portuguese buildings stock, previous to 1990, has a weak energy performance, it is crucial to reflect on how to make renovations with more assertive benefits (besides energy), such as...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Soares dos Reis, Petra Vaquero, Marta Ferreira Dias, Alice Tavares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-11-01
Series:Energy Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722013993