Adaptive Thermal Comfort: At the Extremes

To remain comfortable in a world of ever more extreme weather events and climate trends, we need a building revolution.Building designers, owners, managers, and occupants must prepare now for future climates with new ways to stay comfortable indoors.This book is a compendium of information on comfort that provides an overview of the complexity of the many ways that comfort is achieved in buildings.It outlines the impacts and implications of current design practices on greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and the health and well-being of people in them.In reality, many modern buildings, and particularly homes, are already failing in various ways.During extreme weather events, they overheat. During power outages, many buildings do not even remain habitable.During the COVID pandemic, cross-infections between occupants were rife in buildings like hospitals and hotels without opening windows.As energy prices soared and globally economies flatlined, many found themselves unable to pay for