TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermal comfort in residential buildings
T2 - Comfort values and scales for building energy simulation
AU - Peeters, Leen
AU - Dear, Richard de
AU - Hensen, Jan
AU - D'haeseleer, William
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - Building Energy Simulation (BES) programmes often use conventional thermal comfort theories to make decisions, whilst recent research in the field of thermal comfort clearly shows that important effects are not incorporated. The conventional theories of thermal comfort were set up based on steady state laboratory experiments. This, however, is not representing the real situation in buildings, especially not when focusing on residential buildings. Therefore, in present analysis, recent reviews and adaptations are considered to extract acceptable temperature ranges and comfort scales. They will be defined in an algorithm, easily implementable in any BES code. The focus is on comfortable temperature levels in the room, more than on the detailed temperature distribution within that room.
AB - Building Energy Simulation (BES) programmes often use conventional thermal comfort theories to make decisions, whilst recent research in the field of thermal comfort clearly shows that important effects are not incorporated. The conventional theories of thermal comfort were set up based on steady state laboratory experiments. This, however, is not representing the real situation in buildings, especially not when focusing on residential buildings. Therefore, in present analysis, recent reviews and adaptations are considered to extract acceptable temperature ranges and comfort scales. They will be defined in an algorithm, easily implementable in any BES code. The focus is on comfortable temperature levels in the room, more than on the detailed temperature distribution within that room.
KW - Adaptation
KW - Comfort temperatures
KW - Residential buildings
KW - Temperature ranges
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58949104767&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.07.011
DO - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.07.011
M3 - Review article
VL - 86
SP - 772
EP - 780
JO - Applied Energy
JF - Applied Energy
SN - 0306-2619
IS - 5
ER -