Indirect calorimetry of metabolic rate in college-age Japanese subjects during various office activities

• Published in: Building and environment Vol. 199; p. 107909
• Main Authors: Nomoto, Akihisa, Hisayama, Ryo, Yoda, Shu, Akimoto, Mizuho, Ogata, Masayuki, Tsutsumi, Hitomi, Tanabe, Shin-ichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 15.07.2021; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Age; Animal behavior; Body surface area; Calorimetry; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide generation rate; Dimensional measurement; Evaluation; Females; Heat measurement; Indirect calorimetry; International standards; Men; Metabolic rate; Metabolism; Subject experiment; Surface area; Thermal comfort; Typing; Metabolic rate; Thermal comfort; Subject experiment; Body surface area; Indirect calorimetry; Carbon dioxide generation rate

Indoor climate regulations are based on an empirical thermal comfort model developed in the 1960s. The standard values for one of its fundamental parameters, which is the metabolic rate, is based on the data pertaining to European and North American men measured at that time and may overestimate the...