A BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO THERMAL COMFORT ASSESSMENT

The paper 1 describes the use of field study data to identify and quantify the individual contribution's of adaptive actions by subjects in order to achieve thermal comfort. These actions include operating building controls, responding to spatial variation of room conditions, modifying posture...

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Published inInternational journal of solar energy Vol. 19; no. 1-3; pp. 21 - 35
Main Authors BAKER, NICK, STANDEVEN, MARK
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.1997
Subjects
Adaptive
Behavioural
Field study
Satisfaction
Thermal comfort
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ISSN0142-5919
DOI10.1080/01425919708914329

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Summary:The paper 1 describes the use of field study data to identify and quantify the individual contribution's of adaptive actions by subjects in order to achieve thermal comfort. These actions include operating building controls, responding to spatial variation of room conditions, modifying posture and clothing, and metabolic rate. In order for these actions to occur, the adaptive opportunity must exist, which to some extent is a property of the building. Suggestions for the integration of adaptive effects into comfort-predicting models are made including a way of avoiding temperature as an input, which is shown to have poor correlation with reported thermal satisfaction.
ISSN:0142-5919
DOI:10.1080/01425919708914329