Professor LUCELIA RODRIGUES's Outputs (4)

An Investigation Of The Luminous Environment In Nottingham H.O.U.S.E (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kankipati, L. S., Rodrigues, L., & Kiamba, L. (2020, September). An Investigation Of The Luminous Environment In Nottingham H.O.U.S.E. Presented at PLEA 2020 - Planning Post Carbon Cities Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, A Coruña, Spain

Daylight makes an important contribution to indoor quality and building occupants’ wellbeing and productivity. Although it is well known that different spaces need different lighting quality for tasks to be performed effectively, the issue of change... Read More about An Investigation Of The Luminous Environment In Nottingham H.O.U.S.E.

Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort (2020)
Journal Article
Rodrigues, L., Tubelo, R., Vega Pasos, A., Gonçalves, J. C. S., Wood, C., & Gillott, M. (2020). Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort. Building Research and Information, https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2020.1825064

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Airtightness refers to the amount of air leakage through a building’s envelope. This uncontrolled exchange of air between inside and outside, either infiltration or exfiltration, may lea... Read More about Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort.

The vulnerability of homes to overheating in Myanmar today and in the future: A heat index analysis of measured and simulated data (2020)
Journal Article
Zune, M., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2020). The vulnerability of homes to overheating in Myanmar today and in the future: A heat index analysis of measured and simulated data. Energy and Buildings, 223, Article 110201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110201

© 2020 The integration of vernacular strategies in Myanmar housing seems to have remained remarkably resilient and is still the norm even in modern dwellings. However, no regard is given to the possible impact of climate change. Using one-year monito... Read More about The vulnerability of homes to overheating in Myanmar today and in the future: A heat index analysis of measured and simulated data.

Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia (2020)
Journal Article
Lechner, A. M., Gomes, R. L., Rodrigues, L., Ashfold, M. J., Selvam, S. B., Wong, E. P., Raymond, C. M., Zieritz, A., Sing, K. W., Billa, L., Sagala, S., Moug, P., Cheshmehzangi, A., Lourdes, K., Azhar, B., Sanusi, R., Ives, C. D., Tang, Y.-T., Tan, D. T., Chan, F. K. S., …Gibbins, C. (2020). Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia. Blue-Green Systems, 2(1), 331-351. https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.014

Low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia face a range of challenges related to the rapid pace of urbanisation in the region, the scale of pollution, climate change, loss of ecosystem services and associated difficulties for ecologi... Read More about Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia.