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Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand

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  • Boris Kingma

    (NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism of Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands)

  • Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt

    (NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism of Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands)

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.

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  • Boris Kingma & Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt, 2015. "Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 5(12), pages 1054-1056, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:5:y:2015:i:12:d:10.1038_nclimate2741
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2741
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