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- Daylighting in classrooms - the daylight factor as a performance criterionPublication . Pinto, Manuel; Almeida, Ricardo; Pinho, Paulo; Lemos, LuísRecent research has shown that environmental conditions in classrooms, and namely daylighting conditions, can influence students health, well-being and performance. In the last years several studies, dealing with the effects of environmental conditions in classrooms in the learning process, have been published (Winterbottom, & Wilkins, 2009; Barret, Zhang, Moffat, & Kobbacy, 2013). The daylight factor (DF) is the most used parameter in the characterization and quantification of daylight in buildings. The DF at a point of a plane inside a room is defined as the ratio (expressed as a percentage) between the daylight illuminance at that point in the interior of the room and the simultaneous exterior horizontal global illuminance due to a hemisphere of a sky of known or assumed luminance distribution (usually, a CIE overcast sky luminance distribution is considered). The DF reflects the effectiveness of daylight penetration in a particular room or space. The exterior daylight conditions may vary, but the DF remains constant, since the interior illuminances change proportionally to the simultaneous changes in the exterior daylight conditions (Santos, 2006).
- Natural ventilation as a simple strategy for the improvement of the indoor environmental quality in classroomsPublication . Almeida, Ricardo; Pinto, Manuel; Pinho, Paulo; Lemos, LuísIt now seems clear that the indoor environmental conditions in classrooms, in particular the effect of temperature and indoor air quality (IAQ), influence students’ health, attitude and performance. In recent years several studies that evaluate the effects of the classrooms environmental conditions on the learning process were published (Bakó-Biró, Clements-Croome, Kochhar, Awbi, & Williams, 2012; De Giuli, Da Pos, & De Carli, 2012). In recent years several studies regarding indoor environmental quality (IEQ) were published, covering schools of different levels of education with natural ventilation systems (single façade or cross ventilation), in continuous or purge ventilation. Natural ventilation proved to have great potential, particularly in southern European climate. However, the results, particularly in terms of thermal comfort (air temperature) and ventilation rate or levels of CO2 concentration, have not always been satisfactory.