Title: PERCEIVED INDOOR THERMAL CONDITIONS AND PROGRESIVE INDOOR TECHNOLOGIES
Abstract: Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses
satisfaction with complex thermal factors. There are three main
factors that can affect the human comfort, which must be
considered by engineers before designing progressive indoor
technologies; effective temperature, relative humidity and air
motion. Building occupants are a rich source of information
about indoor environmental quality and its effects on comfort
and productivity. Subjective evaluation of indoors is an
important part of assessing the quality of the indoor
environment. The problems with perceived thermal conditions
occur in the buildings using new indoor technologies. Generally
it is not easy to arrange good thermal conditions indoors. A
large number of people perceive thermal discomfort caused by
high or low indoor temperatures. This problem was studied in
the selected public building mostly with open space offices.
The office buildings broadly are characterized by a large area
of glass surfaces, which are significantly affected by external
climatic conditions and sunlight. The paper deals with the
perceived thermal indoor conditions in the open space offices
where the low temperature heating and high temperature cooling
were used. The questionnaire for subjective evaluation was
used. The questionnaire includes the following parameters:
level of indoor acceptability from thermal comfort, air
movement, air quality, and air humidity. The thermal conditions
were perceived as slightly warm during the winter operation. On
the other hand during the summer operation were the conditions
perceived as neutral. The other studied parameters were
evaluated as acceptable for both periods.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-06-20
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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