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1. Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

   Foundations and Analysis

   By Michael Humphreys, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf

   To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
2. Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

   By Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys, Susan Roaf

   The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Transforming Markets in the Built Environment

   Adapting to Climate Change

   Edited by Susan Roaf

   Series: Architectural Science Review Series

   There is an urgent need to build human capacity to make the often vulnerable and exposed buildings and communities we live and work in more resilient to the changing social, economic and physical environments around us. Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and...

   Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
4. Closing the Loop

   Benchmarks for Sustainable Buildings

   By Susan Roaf

   Closing the Loop: Benchmarks for Sustainable Buildings is an authoritative guide to the issues and techniques behind benchmarking sustainable construction. It describes how to measure and achieve sustainability in construction. It contains a palette of issues, indicators and benchmarks, techniques,...

   Published October 31st 2003 by RIBA Publishing