Thermal Comfort
Author | : P. O. Fanger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : P. O. Fanger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : P.O. Fanger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : P. O. Fanger |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. Humphreys |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1135273502 |
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.
Author | : R.C. Eberhart |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1468482858 |
Author | : Kristian Fabbri |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031526104 |
Author | : Fergus Nicol |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1136336478 |
The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable buildings today requires a new approach. This timely book is the first in a trilogy from leaders in the field which will provide just that. It explains, in a clear and comprehensible manner, how we stay comfortable by using our bodies, minds, buildings and their systems to adapt to indoor and outdoor conditions which change with the weather and the climate. The book is in two sections. The first introduces the principles on which the theory of adaptive thermal comfort is based. The second explains how to use field studies to measure thermal comfort in practice and to analyze the data gathered. Architects have gradually passed responsibility for building performance to service engineers who are largely trained to see comfort as the ‘product’, designed using simplistic comfort models. The result has contributed to a shift to buildings that use ever more energy. A growing international consensus now calls for low-energy buildings. This means designers must first produce robust, passive structures that provide occupants with many opportunities to make changes to suit their environmental needs. Ventilation using free, natural energy should be preferred and mechanical conditioning only used when the climate demands it. This book outlines the theory of adaptive thermal comfort that is essential to understand and inform such building designs. This book should be required reading for all students, teachers and practitioners of architecture, building engineering and management – for all who have a role in producing, and occupying, twenty-first century adaptive, low-carbon, comfortable buildings.
Author | : Ivana Špelić |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2019-06-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 042975065X |
Providing detailed analysis of the thermal comfort assessment of clothing as the basis for developing standards, this book discusses the thermal protective role of clothing as a way of modelling heat transfer from the body, general thermal regulation of humans, and the importance of globally accepted test methods and standards to improve quality. New materials and discoveries in the study of thermal comfort necessitate the need for standard improvements and update. The development of international standards and the unification of testing methods is of crucial significance to ensure cost reduction and health protection. The book promotes instruments, methods, implementation of unified specifications, and the definition of standards so that a clear quality management system can be established, for both production systems and testing methods. It discusses standards in ergonomics of the thermal environment, clothing thermal characteristics, and subjective assessment of thermal comfort, which allows for systematic control of the measuring methods and the services and final products that are distributed on the global market. This book is aimed at industry professionals, researchers, and advanced students working in textile and clothing engineering, comfort testing, and ergonomics.
Author | : Liangzhu Leon Wang |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 2933 |
Release | : 2023-09-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9811998221 |
This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2022), held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2022. The work focuses on the most recent technologies and knowledge of building energy and the environment, including health, energy, urban microclimate, smart cities, safety, etc. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, engineers in the industry, and regulators of buildings. As well, readers encounter new ideas for achieving healthy, comfortable, energy-efficient, resilient, and safe buildings.
Author | : Fergus Nicol |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000553582 |
This book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments, including temperature, light, air-quality, acoustics and so forth. It is of importance not only to the comfort people feel indoors, but also the success of any building as an environment for its stated purpose. The way in which comfort is produced and perceived has a profound effect on the energy use of a building and its resilience to the increasing dangers posed by extreme weather events, and power outages caused by climate change. Research on thermal comfort is particularly important not only for the health and well-being of occupants but because energy used for temperature control is responsible for a large part of the total energy budget of the built environment. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the vulnerabilities of the thermal comfort system; how and why are buildings failing to provide safe and agreeable thermal environments at an affordable price? Achieving comfort in buildings is a complex subject that involves physics, behaviour, physiology, energy conservation, climate change, and of course architecture and urban design. Bringing together the related disciplines in one volume lays strong, multi-disciplinary foundations for new research and design directions for resilient 21st century architecture. This book heralds workable solutions and emerging directions for key fields in building the resilience of households, organisations and populations in a heating world.