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Thermal Comfort and Energy Consumption in Healthcare Buildings – A Review

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Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction (ICAMC 2021)

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As special public buildings, healthcare building have high requirements for thermal comfort and are also large energy consumption. This paper reviews the thermal comfort and energy saving of healthcare buildings. It discusses the importance of thermal comfort in healthcare buildings and the current research in different regions. In order to solve the problem of thermal discomfort, air conditioning energy consumption is the most important part of healthcare buildings’ total energy consumption. Finally, this paper puts forward the prospect: analysing the quantitative relationship between thermal comfort and energy consumption is meaningful to energy saving of healthcare buildings.

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    Siyu Ma, Yuanli Ma, Qianxi Zhang, Wu Deng, Jun Lu & Tongyu Zhou

  2. School of Architecture and Transportation Engineering, Institute of Architecture, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo, China

    Siyu Ma

  3. School of Design, Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ningbo Tech University, Ningbo, China

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Ma, S., Ma, Y., Zhang, Q., Deng, W., Lu, J., Zhou, T. (2022). Thermal Comfort and Energy Consumption in Healthcare Buildings – A Review. In: Mendonça, P., Cortiços, N.D. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction. ICAMC 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94514-5_38

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