European Directive for Energy Performance of Buildings was approved in the beginning of 2003. The transition period is 3-6 years depending of the article. European Standardisation Organisation (CEN) has drafted several standards to help the member countries implementing the directive. One of these is the Criteria for the indoor environment including thermal, indoor air quality (ventilation) light and noise. The standard specifies design values of indoor environment, values to be used in energy calculations, and methods how to verify the specified indoor environment in the buildings.
This paper gives a sum up of the results of performance testing in an IEQ (indoor environment quality) chamber built in Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science (SRIBS).
A field study was conducted in Shangaï, China in 200 and 2001 on thermal comfort in non-air-conditioned buildings. Around 1800 office workers answered a questionnaire , and measurements were made simultaneously. The authors explored if it is justifiable f
This paper compares different ways to reach a spatial temperature distribution inside living and working spaces for industrial or technological use such as drying and conditioning chambers, sterilizers etc.
This paper offers reference data for the study and design of tall residential buildings with atrium in cold winter and hot summers areas. A questionnaire survey was carried out by the authors, their analysis and results are presented.
A new formula is proposed for expressing a whole body thermal comfort , in a siiting posture, in a non-uniform thermal environment. Their formula is applicable under conditions that involve various types of clothing and various air velocities .
In order to detect thermal environment and comfort in trains, a field survey was carried out in 2004. The results show that outdoor air, temperature, humidity and clothing are the major factors that influence passenger's thermal sensation in trains.
This paper introduces the theory and the application of the wavelet transform method to the study of fluctuating characteristics of airflows in building environments.
The aim of this paper is to sum up the investigations on human responses to transient thermal environment and to predict the possibility of using the findings in practice.
Japanese government recommends to keep as effort for energy conservation, an office temperature setting of 28°C. in summer. But economic effects and office worker's productivity must be considered. Subjective experiments on the effect of moderately high
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