Fanger’s model of thermal comfort: a model suitable just for men?

Schaudienst, Falk; Vogdt, Frank U.

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.658

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“…Ratti's idea was that it is not really necessary to be surrounded by areas of high thermal mass, but rather that occupants find a healthy relation of air-and mean radiant temperature in spaces. This concept in principle is also supported by the late Ole Fanger thermal comfort theory (which still is matter of many discussions, for instance in [5]). As such, the pursuit of an occupant by panels that react on that person's presence could offer microclimatic aid against overheating or undercooling in spaces, which negatively influence the thermal comfort.…”

Section: Realization Of An Innovative Architecture Concept For Evaluamentioning

confidence: 69%

A Review of the Eva – Project: Evaluation of Visonary Architectural Concepts in View of Building Performance

Sommer¹,

Pont²,

Moncayo³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the enviBUILD 2019

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This paper reports on the EVA-project, which was collaboratively conducted by the University of Applied Arts (Energy Design) and the TU Wien (Dept. of Building Physics and Building Ecology). This project focused on the assessment of a number of innovative architectural concepts in the field of energy-efficient architecture. Whereas a large number of building projects focuses on adding thermal insulation and rather rely on the performance of mass products like insulation panels, a by far smaller number of projects try to explore other ways of improving building performance, such as adaptive, moveable, or performance-shifting envelope element. Such architectural concepts often experience contra-arguments, such as the high risk of failure due to childhood diseases in the planning, the fear of increased cost and less-than-expected impact, or even invective as architect's fantasies. However, the track of innovation often has to cross rickety bridges to be accepted by the AEC (architecture-engineering-construction) domain. Toward this end, the EVA project provides two contributions: On the one hand, a structured evaluation database has been developed, in which "innovative architectural concepts" can be stored and queried regarding their key features. On the other hand, one innovative approach has been chosen, constructed and implemented in an existing building's envelope. The paper illustrates the idea, the principle construction, and the performance impact of this realization, which was pertaining to radiative heating and cooling achieved by adjustable distribution of thermal mass through indoor panels that were linked to outdoor façade elements.

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Section: Realization Of An Innovative Architecture Concept For Evaluamentioning

confidence: 69%

A Review of the Eva – Project: Evaluation of Visonary Architectural Concepts in View of Building Performance

Sommer¹,

Pont²,

Moncayo³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the enviBUILD 2019

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“…Furthermore, different genders can have different sensitivities to ventilation and temperature. Schaudienst and Vogdt demonstrated that elderly people and women prefer a higher ambient temperature [16]. Cheung et al analyzed the accuracy on PMV-PPD model using the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II [17].…”

Section: Indoor Environment Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigation of Thermal Comfort Responses with Fuzzy Logic

Menyhárt

Kalmár

2019

Energies

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In order to reduce the energy consumption of buildings a series of new heating, ventilation and air conditioning strategies, methods, and equipment are developed. The architectural trends show that office and educational buildings have large glazed areas, so the thermal comfort is influenced both by internal and external factors and discomfort parameters may affect the overall thermal sensation of occupants. Different studies have shown that the predictive mean vote (PMV)—predictive percentage of dissatisfied (PPD) model poorly evaluates the thermal comfort in real buildings. At the University of Debrecen a new personalized ventilation system (ALTAIR) was developed. A series of measurements were carried out in order to test ALTAIR involving 40 subjects, out of which 20 female (10 young and 10 elderly) and 20 male (10 young and 10 elderly) persons. Based on the responses of subjects related to indoor environment quality, a new comfort index was determined using fuzzy logic. Taking into consideration the responses related to thermal comfort sensation and perception of odor intensity a new the fuzzy comfort index was 5.85 on a scale from 1–10.

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“…A classical comfort measure is the standard Predicted Mean Vote (PMV), which aggregates multiple environmental factors to produce a single comfort index [9]. This measure has been often criticized for the difference of subjective comfort experienced by different kinds of users; e.g., male and female [10]. Hence, adaptive versions of PMV, capable of learning user-adapted comfort values, have been developed [11,12].…”

Section: Operation and Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control

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This paper introduces the concept of Comfort as a Service (CaaS), a new energy supply paradigm for providing comfort to residential customers. CaaS takes into account the available passive and active elements, the external factors that affect energy consumption and associated costs, and occupants’ behaviors to generate optimal control strategies for the domestic equipment automatically. As a consequence, it releases building occupants from operating the equipment, which gives rise to a disruption of the traditional model of paying per consumed energy in favor of a model of paying per provided comfort. In the paper, we envision a realization of CaaS based on several technologies such as ambient intelligence, big data, cloud computing and predictive computing. We discuss the opportunities and the barriers of CaaS-centered business and exemplify the potential of CaaS deployments by quantifying the expected energy savings achieved after limiting occupants’ control over the air conditioning system in a test scenario.

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Fanger’s model of thermal comfort: a model suitable just for men?

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

A Review of the Eva – Project: Evaluation of Visonary Architectural Concepts in View of Building Performance

A Review of the Eva – Project: Evaluation of Visonary Architectural Concepts in View of Building Performance

Investigation of Thermal Comfort Responses with Fuzzy Logic

Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control

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