Designing for thermal comfort near a glazed exterior wall
Anderson, Timothy and Luther, Mark 2012, Designing for thermal comfort near a glazed exterior wall, Architectural science review, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 186-195.
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Designing for thermal comfort near a glazed exterior wall
In many highly glazed buildings, the thermal comfort of the occupants will tend to be related to the incoming solar energy and the heat transfer behaviour of the glazing. In this study, several glazing systems were designed using the software tools VISION 3 (University of Waterloo 1992) and WINDOW-6 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2011), with a view to improving thermal environment of occupants near the glazed wall of a commercial office. The systems were fabricated and experimentally tested to validate the software modelling results. Subsequently, the glazing systems were retro-fitted to the office and tested in situ for a summer month. Results of this testing, in the form of Fangers’ predicted mean vote (PMV) and the predicted percentage dissatisfied (PPD), are presented, and some options for improving the thermal environment in this near-façade zone are discussed.
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120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design)
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859899 Environmentally Sustainable Energy Activities not elsewhere classified
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