Due to the current environmental situation, energy saving has become the leading drive in modern research. Although the residential houses in tropical climate do not use air conditioning to maintain thermal comfort in order to avoid use of electricity. As the thermal comfort is maintained by adequate envelope composition and natural ventilation, this paper shows that it is possible to determine...

Transitional spaces have been widely applied in building designs nowadays, which are present in the form of atria, lobbies, corridors and covered streets. As they have become common features of buildings, they account for 1040% of the total volume in different types of buildings. However, maintaining an acceptable thermal comfort for transitional spaces poses challenges to building designers an...

13 A thermal model for the human body is used to assess the temperature of the body and 14 a person’s thermal comfort level. Most models available in the literature were 15 developed for a uniform thermal environment and have limited applications. This study 16 developed a 12-segment model for transient and non-uniform surrounding conditions 17 by considering two-dimensional heat transfer in ea...

This paper presents results of over 34,000 survey responses to air quality and thermal comfort questions in 215 buildings in US, Canada, and Finland. Results show that 80% or more of the occupants expressed satisfaction with their thermal comfort in only 11% of the buildings surveyed. Air quality scores were somewhat higher, with 26% of buildings having 80% or occupant satisfaction. With respec...