Environment friendliness and energy efficiency are the mantra of today’s world in each and every sector of development. The automotive industry is also now switching to zero emission car concepts to be in congruence with this concept. During this transformation, however, consumer satisfaction should not be hampered. The consumer is satisfied if he feels comfortable using a given commodity. Comf...

OBJECTIVE To describe the role of the tobacco industry in the development of ventilation standards for indoor air quality by influencing the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). METHODS Review of tobacco industry documents available on the internet between January 2001 and March 2002. Search terms included "ASHRAE", "ventilation", "minutes", "me...

In 2001, the Texas State Senate passed Senate Bill 5 to reduce ozone levels by encouraging the reduction of emissions of NOx that were not regulated by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. These include point sources (power plants), area sources (such as residential emissions), road mobile sources, and non-road mobile sources. For the building energy sector, the Texas State Legis...

Evaporation rates and total energy loads from an unoccupied, heated, outdoor pool in Fort Collins, Colorado were investigated. Pool and air temperatures, humidity, thermal radiation, wind speed, and water loss due to evaporation were measured over 2 1 test periods ranging from 1.1 to 16.2 hours during August and September, 1992. Data were analyzed and compared to commonly used evaporation rate ...

Research in occupant behaviour is now using a more elaborate framework of building interaction. Researchers often face challenges collecting data, particularly for the data to meet minimum number required points and interoperability requirements. address first issue with synthetic population latter ontologies. While commonly used issue, ontology development latter. The two solutions are complem...

This theoretical study reports on the assessment of productivity loss in air-conditioned office buildings using the PMVapproach and makes use of Wyon’s reviews [D.P. Wyon, P.O. Fanger, B.W. Olesen, C.J.K. Pedersen, The mental performance of subjects clothed for comfort at two different air temperatures, Ergonomics 18 (1975) 358–374; D.P. Wyon, Individual microclimate control: required range, pr...

Indoor thermal comfort is critical to building sustainability besides improving occupants’ health, well-being and productivity. However, the applicability of existing standards within different climatic conditions contextual settings often in question. This study presents findings from a longitudinal conducted low-income affordable housing Mumbai, India. Surveys were three distinct seasons warm...

Recent research has looked into the potential for energy savings from adopting setpoint temperatures based on adaptive comfort. The recently suggested Adaptive-Comfort-Control-Implementation Script (ACCIS), a computational method that expands use of air conditioning to comfort, can be used accomplish this. user's setup and an Input Data File (IDF) are by ACCIS convert PMV-based EnergyPlus model...

Traditional architecture is an architectural form that passed down from one generation to the next. houses are formed through a long time responsive environment. The traditional adapt with environment increase their level of comfort and reduce disturbances for comfortable living. This study aimed identify thermal Betang Ensaid Panjang, which Dayak in Sintang Regency. Identification was done by ...

Around 18% of global carbon emissions can be attributed to building heating or cooling, driven by the adoption “international” thermal comfort standards such as ASHRAE-55, which imply an homogenous indoor environment. We argue that importation warm climates results in cold discomfort due “overcooling”: a phenomenon anecdotally recognised worldwide but not studied defined systematically. Unlike ...