Outdoor comfort is gaining attention in the design of our cities to face current context rising temperatures. Although simulation required inform early stage projects considering outdoor space and strategies improve their thermal performance, different tool options must be compared through monitoring determine accuracy modeling. This study analyses benefits installation a shading device courtya...

Many urban studies have been done to demonstrate that urban sprawl is not the right approach in hot climate cities. On the contrary, a compact design is recommended to enhance human thermal comfort. This research aims to clarify the relation between urban morphology and outdoor thermal comfort of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The aim is to develop an outstanding future strategic compact morphology that...

Deteriorated urban microclimate and poor outdoor thermal comfort is an increasing problem in cities in the tropics due to the combined effect of urban and global warming. Microclimate measurements (wind speed, air temperature and humidity, and globe temperature) were carried out in different parts of the warm-humid city Guayaquil, Ecuador. Simultaneously about 400 persons were asked for their s...

Ensuring that the thermal comfort conditions in offices are in line with the preferences of the occupants, is one of the main aims of a heating/cooling control system, in order to save energy, increase productivity and reduce sick leave days. The industry standard approach for modelling occupant comfort is Fanger’s Predicted Mean Vote (PMV). Although PMV is able to predict user thermal satisfac...

The aim of the article is to describe the results of an experimental campaign based on the assessment of a heat recovery unit coupled with a dynamic window. Two fully monitored and calibrated outdoor test cells are used, in order to evaluate the energy performance and the related thermal comfort. The former presents a traditional window with double-glazing, aluminum frame and indoor blind and a...

Climatic conditions influence thermal comfort. However, the effect of climatic on occupants’ comfort in naturally ventilated nursing homes has not been analysed. This paper reports a study to analyse climate perceptions residents (elderly people) and non-residents (caregivers therapists) from 18 three zones: Csa-m (Mediterranean climate); Csa-c (continental Mediterranean climate) Csb (oceanic c...