A New Method to Describe the Combined Effect of Draught and Radiant Thermal Asymmetry on Human Work Performance

Human resources are the most important elements of economic units; thus, the efficiency of human work is of crucial importance. Work efficiency can be achieved only in an environment offering optimal thermal comfort. The present study makes use of human subject experiments in order to investigate th...

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Published inSlovak journal of civil engineering Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 43 - 49
Main Authors András-Tövissi, Balázs, Kajtár, László
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bratislava Sciendo 01.06.2020
De Gruyter Poland
Subjects
Asymmetry
Civil engineering
Draft
Draught
Economics
Efficiency
Experiments
Heat
Human performance
Human resources
Human subject measurement
Human subjects
Humidity
Joint effect
Laboratories
Productivity
Radiant thermal asymmetry
Thermal comfort
Thermal environments
Thermalcomfort
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Summary:Human resources are the most important elements of economic units; thus, the efficiency of human work is of crucial importance. Work efficiency can be achieved only in an environment offering optimal thermal comfort. The present study makes use of human subject experiments in order to investigate the joint effect of draughts and warm ceilings on work performance. During the experiments, 10 thermal environments with 5 radiant thermal asymmetries and 2 draught rates were investigated. The most important outcome of the research is the presentation of the combined effect of a draught and a warm ceiling on work performance.
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ISSN:1210-3896
1338-3973
DOI:10.2478/sjce-2020-0014