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 ...

The pure physical approach used to characterise thermal comfort is not informative for many urban designers and landscape architects. Significantly, this theoretical approach was criticised due to the lack of consideration of human sensations ad perceptions. Recent researches show an increased consideration for psychological and behavioural aspects of outdoor thermal comfort. However, the epist...

Whole-body cryotherapy (WBC; -110 degrees C) and winter swimming (WS) in ice-cold water are severe ambient cold exposures, which are voluntarily practiced by humans in minimal clothing. The purpose was to examine thermal sensation and thermal comfort associated with WBC and WS. Twenty women similar in body mass index, age, physical activity, and use of hormonal contraception were pairwise rando...

This study analyzed the thermal comfort in arid-desert climate of United Arab Emirates based on Discomfort Index (DI) and Universal Thermal Climate (UTCI) method. For this purpose, average monthly meteorological data including temperature, wind speed relative humidity were obtained from three stations (Abu Dhabi, Dubai Al Ain) during (1980-2018) period. The result indicated that highest value D...

Abstract—This paper presents an adaptive thermal comfort model study in the tropical country of Malaysia. A number of researchers have been interested in applying the adaptive thermal comfort model to different climates throughout the world, but so far no study has been performed in Malaysia. For the use as a thermal comfort model, which better applies to hot and humid climates, the adaptive th...

In France, non-residential buildings account for a significant part in energy consumption. Moreover, a large part of this consumption is due to Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems, which are generally badly handled. So, the present work deals with an efficient approach allowing energy consumption to be minimized while ensuring thermal comfort. In this sense, a predictive co...

The indoor air quality in an operating theatre affects both patient health and the well-being of the surgical team members. Health care facilities, and operating theatres in particular, require ventilation and air conditioning for thermal comfort and removal of contaminants. Although the patient undergoing surgery is given the highest priority, it is important to consider the comfort of surgica...

The environmental concern, ensuring comfort for occupants, pushed us to search for the impact of glazed loggia on thermal comfort of adjacent space in Cons tantine climate, having s trong climatic cons traints. An experimental s tudy is undertaken and described in this paper. Analysis of the in situ results is also discussed. This work shows that in winter glazed loggia benefit largely from sol...