Balancing Heritage and Comfort: Optimising Energy Efficiency Through Sustainable Retrofitting of Traditional Buildings in Tropical Warm-Humid Climate

Traditional buildings, while architecturally and culturally significant, often encounter challenges in thermal performance due to the limitations of available construction materials and research carried out to quantify the thermal performance of these traditional buildings in the warm, humid climate of Nigeria [...]

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2025-12-19
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https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2025131097
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Hygrothermal properties of building materials
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Balancing Heritage and Comfort: Optimising Energy Efficiency Through Sustainable Retrofitting of Traditional Buildings in Tropical Warm-Humid Climate

Lorna Kiamba, Lucelia Taranto Rodrigues, Aminu Adamu Bena, Olutola Funmilayo Oyebanji
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Balancing Heritage and Comfort: Optimising Energy Efficiency Through Sustainable Retrofitting of Traditional Buildings in Tropical Warm-Humid Climate

Lorna Kiamba, Lucelia Taranto Rodrigues, Aminu Adamu Bena, Olutola Funmilayo Oyebanji
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Traditional buildings, while architecturally and culturally significant, often encounter challenges in thermal performance due to the limitations of available construction materials and research carried out to quantify the thermal performance of these traditional buildings in the warm, humid climate of Nigeria [...]

University of Nottingham (GB), Federal University Birnin Kebbi (NG), Kwara State University (NG)
Affordable and clean energy, Climate action
Openalex Percentile: Top 39%
Hygrothermal properties of building materials
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