Kathryn J McCartney

TL;DR: The results show that use of the ACA has potential for energy savings in the climate-control services of a building with no reduction in the perceived thermal comfort levels of that building’s occupants.

TL;DR: In this article, a field study of the thermal comfort of workers in natural ventilated office buildings in Oxford and Aberdeen, UK, was carried out which included information about use of building controls.

TL;DR: In this paper, a yearlong thermal comfort survey in one of the even naturally ventilated buildings in Oxford was conducted to evaluate the use of available controls and their appropriate use in modifying the indoor thermal conditions.

TL;DR: The origin and development of the adaptive approach to thermal comfort is explained, and recommendations made as to the best comfort temperature, the range of comfortable environments and the maximum rate of change of indoor temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on human thermal comfort in the built environment is presented, which includes standards, indoor experiments in controlled environments, indoor field studies in educational, office, residential and other building types, productivity, human physiological models, outdoor and semi-outdoor field studies.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework to deal with occupants' interactions with building controls, aimed at improving or maintaining the preferred indoor environmental conditions, is elaborated, which is used to look into the drivers for the actions taken by occupants (windows opening and closing) and investigate the existing models in literature of these actions for both residential and office buildings.

TL;DR: The research uses results from field surveys to formulate a method for simulation of office buildings to include the effects of window opening behaviour on comfort and energy use and finds that the proportion of windows open depends on indoor and outdoor conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a relationship between indoor comfort and outdoor climate was developed for free-running buildings using data collected in the EU project Smart Controls and Thermal Comfort (SCATs), and the indoor comfort conditions were related to the running mean of the outdoor temperature, and the effects of air movement and humidity.