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      Thermal and Skin Condition in Scottish Care Homes in Heating Seasons

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      1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2021 (ICMB21)
      28-29 June 2021
      thermal comfort, humidity comfort, skin condition, real living environment
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            Abstract

            The care residents suffer most of the winter dry, but there is a lack of specific standard or building regulation to guide the design and operation in the buildings that can avoid winter dry issue. To develop such a guide would need many evidence-based data, which is not readily available to this group of people. Collecting such data would rely on a specially designed and validated procedure. This study aims to develop and validate such a procedure that allows data to be collected in a real living environment to assess the effect of the room hygrothermal condition on the occupants’ skin condition and thermal comfort. The main effort is to minimize the disturbance to the subjects’ living and to carry out the data collection in a friendly and easy-understanding way.

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            1 June 2021
            Affiliations
            [1 ] School of Energy, Geosciences, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University
            [2 ] School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Xihua University, China
            [3 ] Buro Happold
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            10.14293/ICMB210085
            8e83755c-f7cb-4df7-bbc0-a68d3f9eec41
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            1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2021
            ICMB21
            Online
            28-29 June 2021
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            The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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