Thermal comfort assessment of large-scale hospitals in tropical climates: A case study of University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC)

A review of human thermal comfort in the built environment

“…Higher comfort temperature than that prescribed by ASHRAE 55 was required for Malaysians in hospitals [349], which was also corroborated by Azizpour et al [350,351] in the study of a hospital in Malaysia. Based on staff evaluations from nine hospitals, Yau and Chew [352] developed an adaptive thermal comfort model for hospital environments with air-conditioning in a tropical climate.…”

Analytical and subjective interpretation of thermal comfort in hospitals: A case study in two sterilization services

“…Although there were no marked differences between SS, it seems that in general, SS2 displayed the poorer thermal conditions according to the data obtained (higher PMV). In general, in this study the objective approach gave systematically higher discomfort levels than the subjective approach, which is in agreement with adaptive theory (Azizpour et al, 2013;Carvalhais et al, 2011). However, Verheyen et al (2011) noted the opposite trend where PMV index was lower than reported thermal sensation, maybe due to the fact that the subjects under examination were not young and healthy.…”

Healing built-environment effects on health outcomes: environment–occupant–health framework

“…Studies on a comfortable environment mainly focused on individual parameters, e.g. light exposure level (Bernhofer, Higgins, Daly, Burant, & Hornick, 2014), noise (Waye, Elmenhorst, Croy, & Pedersen, 2013), temperature (Azizpour et al, 2013) and ventilation rates (Maddalena et al, 2015). Quantitative measurements were undertaken in these studies; however, limited links were identified between the interactions of these design parameters and occupants' overall comfort and satisfaction.…”