Building resilience to overheating into 1960's UK hospital buildings within the constraint of the national carbon reduction target: adaptive strategies

The National Health Service (NHS) Estate in England includes 18.83 Mm of acute hospital accommodation, distributed across 330 sites. Vulnerability to overheating is clear with 15,000 excess deaths occurring nationally during the July 2003 heatwave. The installation of mechanical cooling in existing...

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Main Authors: C. Alan Short, Kevin Lomas, Renganathan Giridharan, A.J. Fair
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Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12463
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