Performance of hospital spaces in summer: A case study of a ‘Nucleus’-type hospital in the UK Midlands

TLDR: In this article, the authors investigated the summer time performance of spaces that are mechanically ventilated but passively cooled in a nucleus-type hospital and compared them with thermal comfort criteria.

About: This article is published in Energy and Buildings.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Natural ventilation.

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Table 4: Model characteristics.

Table 1: Criteria for assessing internal temperatures in naturally ventilated spaces [2].

Table 2: Comparison of internal temperatures measured between 1st June and 30th September, 2010, with BSEN15251, CIBSE and HTM03 overheating criteria: Glenfield Hospital.

Table 3: General construction information of Glenfield Hospital.

Fig. 3: Logger locations in ward 27 on the first floor. The multibed (MB) room 1 and 2 have 6 beds, room 5 and 6 are single bed.

Fig. 4: Internal temperature in W27-SB2, external temperature, its running mean and solar radiation intensity.

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This paper investigates the summer time performance of spaces that are mechanically ventilated but passively cooled. The paper presents the measured indoor temperatures in selected hospital spaces and compares them with thermal comfort criteria.