Thermal Comfort Indices
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37628/jepd.v2i2.162Abstract
Today the way we design buildings have produced many unexpected environmental problems, and the new air conditioning technologies permitted control of situations which had previously been accepted along with the rest of weather. The measurement of the thermal indices is a very complex measure hence innumerous research has been done over the years to find out the most desirable parameter of defining thermal comfort. Hence, ten papers were studied with the aim of finding ‘optimum environment’ which would allow no discomfort and produce maximum performance with minimum strain. The objectives are to compare and contrast the findings not for ‘what is best?’, but ‘what is acceptable?’ The paper presents study of both rational and adaptive thermal comfort. Together these findings suggest that if the desired results are to be obtained the designer must be conscious of a number of factors which psychologically affect human comfort like effective temperature, heat production, moisture losses, air motion and humidity.References
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