Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand

Boris Kingma () and Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt
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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

Nature Climate Change, 2015, vol. 5, issue 12, 1054-1056

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.

Date: 2015
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