Strong heat waves in the past decade and resulting legal cases which gave full responsibility for indoor thermal comfort to building professionals lead to an increased uncertainty how to maintain thermal comfort in offices without the use of a cooling system. Adaptive thermal comfort standards such as EN 15251 and Ashrae Standard 55 provide methodologies to evaluate comfort in naturally ventilated spaces. Based on a parametric study for a typical cellular office in the context of Athens, Greece, and using the building simulation software EnergyPlus, this study investigates the potentials for the applicability of natural ventilation in a Mediterranean climate. The Ashrae Standard 55 and EN 15251 adaptive thermal comfort models are compared in this context, and conclusions are drawn how the use of natural ventilation based on adaptive models can be further encourgaged.
History
Event
International Conference on passive and low energy architecture (27th : 2011 : Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Pagination
583 - 588
Publisher
PLEA
Location
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Place of publication
[Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium]
Start date
2011-07-13
End date
2011-07-15
ISBN-13
9782874632761
ISBN-10
2874632767
Language
eng
Notes
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Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2011, Organizing Committee of PLEA'2011
Editor/Contributor(s)
M Bodart, A Evrard
Title of proceedings
PLEA 2011 : Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on passive and low energy architecture : Architecture and Sustainable Development