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Overview

Richard de Dear is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with significant focus on subfields including Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Facilities and Workplace Management
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Richard de Dear has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Building and Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy and Buildings
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Applied Ergonomics

Some of the recent papers associated with Richard de Dear as author or co-author are:

  • "Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities" (2021), published in The Lancet
  • "Indoor air quality and health in schools: A critical review for developing the roadmap for the future school environment" (2022), published in Journal of Building Engineering
  • "A review of adaptive thermal comfort research since 1998" (2020), published in Energy and Buildings
  • "Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life" (2022), published in Earth's Future
  • "Dynamic thermal perception: A review and agenda for future experimental research" (2021), published in Building and Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard de Dear include:

  • Jungsoo Kim
  • Thomas Parkinson
  • Bongchan Jeong
  • Jing Xiong
  • Ollie Jay

Best Publications

  • Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference

    Richard J. de Dear;Gail Schiller Brager

  • Thermal adaptation in the built environment: a literature review

    Gail S. Brager;Richard J. de Dear

  • Thermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings: revisions to ASHRAE Standard 55

    Richard J. de Dear;Gail S. Brager

  • UTCI--why another thermal index?

    Gerd Jendritzky;Richard de Dear;George Havenith

  • A field study of thermal comfort in outdoor and semi-outdoor environments in subtropical Sydney Australia

    Jennifer Spagnolo;Richard de Dear

  • The adaptive model of thermal comfort and energy conservation in the built environment.

    R. de Dear;Gail Schiller Brager

  • Green occupants for green buildings: The missing link?

    Max Paul Deuble;Richard John de Dear

  • Individual difference in thermal comfort: A literature review

    Zhe Wang;Richard de Dear;Maohui Luo;Borong Lin

  • Progress in thermal comfort research over the last twenty years

    R. J. de Dear;T. Akimoto;E. A. Arens;G. Brager

  • Convective and radiative heat transfer coefficients for individual human body segments

    R. J. de Dear;Edward Arens;Zhang Hui;Masayuki Oguro

  • Operable windows, personal control and occupant comfort.

    Gail S Brager;Gwelen Paliaga;Richard de Dear

  • Thermal comfort in residential buildings: Comfort values and scales for building energy simulation

    Leen Peeters;Richard de Dear;Jan Hensen;William D’haeseleer

  • Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II

    Veronika Földváry Ličina;Toby Cheung;Hui Zhang;Richard de Dear

  • Global database of thermal comfort field experiments

    Richard J. de Dear

  • Nonlinear relationships between individual IEQ factors and overall workspace satisfaction

    Jungsoo Kim;Richard de Dear

  • Revisiting an old hypothesis of human thermal perception: alliesthesia

    Richard de Dear

  • A Standard for Natural Ventilation

    Gail Schiller Brager;Richard De Dear

  • Indoor air quality and health in schools: A critical review for developing the roadmap for the future school environment

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  • Field experiments on occupant comfort and office thermal environments in a hot-humid climate

    Richard de Dear;M. Fountain

  • Field studies of thermal comfort across multiple climate zones for the subcontinent: India Model for Adaptive Comfort (IMAC)

    Sanyogita Manu;Yash Shukla;Rajan Rawal;Leena E. Thomas

  • Thermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings: revisions to ASHRAE Standard 55 - eScholarship

    Richard de Dear;Gail Brager

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Lamberts
Roberto Lamberts Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Edward Arens
Edward Arens University of California, Berkeley
Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang University of California, Berkeley
Luke D. Knibbs
Luke D. Knibbs University of Sydney
Lidia Morawska
Lidia Morawska Queensland University of Technology
Jianlei Niu
Jianlei Niu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Borong Lin
Borong Lin Tsinghua University
Bijan Samali
Bijan Samali Western Sydney University
Yingxin Zhu
Yingxin Zhu Tsinghua University
Jian Zuo
Jian Zuo University of Adelaide

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