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Environmental Quality Integrated Systems Laboratory

Human-Centered / Climate-Responsive

  • Focus
    • Research Goals and Significance
    • Research Areas
    • Applied Research Approach
    • Vision
    • Collaborators
  • Applied Research
  • Tools & Methods
  • Who we are
    • Rodrigo Mora, PhD, P.Eng.
    • Students’ Zone
  • Feature Project
  • Awareness
    • Climate
    • Thermal Comfort
    • Air Quality
    • Ventilation
    • Systems and Controls
    • Learning from failures
    • Environmental Explorations
  • Blog

Health Care Occupant-Centric Climate Systems

Research Projects:

  1. TC models in Health Care Setting Presentation ASHRAE Houston 2018
  2. Physiological responses HVAC Presentation ASHRAE June 27-2017

Publications:

  1. Mora R, Meteyer M (2018). Using thermal comfort models in health care settings. ASHRAE Transactions, Houston, TX, USA. Thermal comfort health care
  2. Mora R, English M, and Athienitis A (2001). Assessment of Thermal Comfort During Surgical Operations, in ASHRAE Transactions, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Eng., Inc, 107 (1): 52-62. Thermal comfort surgical operations

References:

Huisman E, Morales E, van Hoof J, Kort H (2012). Healing environment: A review of the impact of physical environmental factors on users, Journal of Building and Environment, Elsevier, Vol. 58, pp. 70-80.

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