Standards for Thermal Comfort: Indoor Air Temperature Standards for the 21st CenturyFergus Nicol Current Standards for Indoor Air Temperature are inappropriate in many regions of the world. This forces designers to use highly serviced buildings to achieve air temperatures that accord with the standards to the detriment of the local and global environment. Standards for Thermal Comfort brings together contributions from around the world, reflecting new approaches to the setting of standards which can apply to all climates and cultures. |
Contents
Thermal comfort temperatures and the habits of Hobbits | 3 |
Towards new indoor comfort temperatures for Pakistani | 14 |
SESSION 2 | 22 |
Temperature standards for the tropics? | 31 |
22 | 38 |
Comfort preferences or design data? | 50 |
occupant perceptions | 59 |
a radical reading of ISO 7730 | 70 |
Discussions to Session 3 | 132 |
Deliberate design | 139 |
Thermal comfort and temperature standards in Pakistan | 149 |
Discussions to Session 4 | 157 |
Comfort standards from field surveys in the leisure industry | 169 |
What is thermal comfort in a naturally ventilated building? | 176 |
The energy implications of a climatebased indoor | 182 |
An adaptive guideline for UK office temperatures | 190 |
An empirical model for predicting air movement preferred | 78 |
Comfort and air movement in a naturally ventilated room | 106 |
Thermal comfort in Thai airconditioned and naturally | 114 |
Thermal comfort in airconditioned buildings in the tropics | 122 |
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