LoginPersonalised Environmental Control Systems (PECS) with functions for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, and acoustics offer the advantage of controlling the localised environment at an occupant’s workstation according to their preference, rather than conditioning an entire room. This can substantially improve personal comfort, health and the energy efficiency of the overall heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. Personalised ventilation can also help protect against cross contamination, which is particularly important in open plan offices and workplaces where people are in close proximity.
There will be increasing interest in, and demand for, PECS as buildings will need to be made more resilient to pandemics. Applications include workplaces with mainly sedentary activities, such as offices (open plan offices, banks, control centres, etc.). As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which many people worked from home, there is also likely to be increased interest in PECS for home workspaces.
The general objective of the project is to disseminate knowledge on the design and use of PECS.
Reports and webinars are used to disseminate information on the following topics:
- IEA-EBC Annex 87: Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalised Environmental Control Systems (PECS)
- Application of PECS technologies
- Test methods for performance evaluation of PECS
- Control, operation and system integration of PECS
- Requirements, characteristics, and performance of PECS to be used in international standards