Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand
Abstract
The thermal comfort standards developed in the 1960s were based on the average male. Altering these standards to account for female metabolic rates could save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from buildings.
- Publication:
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Nature Climate Change
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2015NatCC...5.1054K