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The weakest link, making sense of the numbers – and overturning Tesla’s legacy

The weakest link? The drive for ‘smart’ buildings automated controls risks leaving the humans who use the buildings in the dark and wasting electricity through inappropriate, inefficient or poorly-calibrated automated systems. Time and again, post-occupancy evaluation across a range of settings suggests that occupants want more, not less control over their environment, with lighting frequently […]

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Reading between the lines: – and worms seeing in full colour

Recovered from Daylight Savings yet? You can thank the International Meridian Conference held in Washington 140 years ago in 1884 for the introduction of time zones and this government-sponsored global experiment in social jet lag that sparks a passionate debate every year. In this fascinating paper, Professor Timo Partonen reviews the evidence for and against Standard and

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