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Updating the adaptive relation between climate and comfort indoors; new insights and an extended database
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In this article, the authors developed a method to derive a standard sensitivity to indoor temperatures change, which is used to estimate the comfort temperatures and to establish a curve relating the probability of discomfort to the temperature-difference from the current optimum.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermal comfort & ASHRAE 90.1.read more
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A review of human thermal comfort in the built environment
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.
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An ontology to represent energy-related occupant behavior in buildings. Part I: Introduction to the DNAs framework
TL;DR: In this article, an ontology to represent energy-related occupant behavior in buildings is presented, based on four key components: i) the drivers of behavior, ii) the needs of the occupants, iii) the actions carried out by the occupants and iv) the building systems acted upon by occupants.
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Personalized conditioning and its impact on thermal comfort and energy performance - A review
Michal Veselý,W Wim Zeiler +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of different personalized conditioning systems on thermal comfort and building energy performance is reviewed, and it is demonstrated that thermal comfort can be well maintained at ambient temperatures that are 4-5 K higher as well as lower than the temperatures recommended by current standards.
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Field studies of thermal comfort across multiple climate zones for the subcontinent: India Model for Adaptive Comfort (IMAC)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an India Model for Adaptive Comfort (IMAC) based on field surveys administered in 16 buildings in three seasons and five cities, representative of five Indian climate zones.
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Adaptive model of thermal comfort for offices in hot and humid climates of India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a thermal comfort field study in 28 naturally ventilated (NV) and air-conditioned (AC) offices in Chennai and Hyderabad for fourteen months, and collected 6048 responses from 2787 individuals.
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Understanding the adaptive approach to thermal comfort
Humphreys,J.F. Nicol +1 more
TL;DR: The evaluation of the parameters of the adaptive model requires cross-sectional surveys to establish current norms and sequential surveys to evaluate the rapidity of people`s adaptive actions.
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Derivation of the adaptive equations for thermal comfort in free-running buildings in European standard EN15251
Fergus Nicol,Michael Humphreys +1 more
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.
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Developing an adaptive control algorithm for Europe
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.
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Outdoor temperatures and comfort indoors
TL;DR: Using available data of outdoor temperatures in a given locality, it is possible, the author suggests, to forecast the range of temperatures that occupants will require indoors in order to feel comfortable as mentioned in this paper.