Visual Thermal Landscaping (VTL) Model: A Qualitative Thermal Comfort Approach based on the Context to Balance Energy and Comfort

Thermal comfort assessment in comfort-prone workplaces.

This paper's main issue is a strong advocacy in favour of an a priori classification of thermal environments that can be really functional to comfort assessment: Class 1, environments where comfort conditions can be established (comfort-prone environments), and Class 2, environments where this is not practically feasible. The former, which are also identified here as 'thermally unconstrained' e...

Thermal Comfort and Productivity

This paper discusses the link between thermal comfort and productivity of office workers and presents some limited conclusions from a European field study of office buildings. The importance of productivity measurement and current methodologies of measurement are discussed and shortcomings highlighted. The paper concludes with an introduction to a new technology developed in Japan that may prov...

Energy delivered un-conditioned for thermal comfort

Energy delivery to households can count up to 50% of primary energy consumption in the United States. As proactive response to this classical engineering sentiment, much efforts made to address this energy delivery process, however, have one one caveat in common: targeting at conditioning only air, despite it being a proxy of occupant comfort. What if we rethink the process of how we delivery e...

Introduction to thermal comfort standards

The aim of this paper is to describe existing ISO standards and current activity concerned with thermal comfort. It describes how an ISO standard is produced from a new work item proposal (NP) to publication as an international standard (ISO). A framework is provided for the assessment of ISO standards and their revisions. Standards should be valid, reliable, useable, and with sufficient scope ...

Church Heating: A Balance between Conservation and Thermal Comfort