Adaptive thermal comfort in naturally ventilated dormitory buildings in Changsha, China

Adaptive Behavior Of Residents For Thermal Comfort In High-Rise Residential Building, Malaysia

“…The second highest preferred action is opening windows with 42.3% and 57.7%, followed by having bath 26.9% and 59.6%, reduce or change clothes 23.1% and 54.8%, have cold drink 27.9% and 50% for "always" usage and total of "always" and "most likely" respectively. This is in line with Wu et al (2019) who found that opining windows, clothing adjustment, and using fan are the main adaptive behaviours of the occupants and that using fans was more helpful and preferred by occupants to maintain comfort.…”

“…Rijal, Humphreys, and Nicol, (2019) noticed that with outdoor air temperature decreases, occupants' clothing insulation increases, while Zhang, Wang, Chen, Zhang, and Meng, (2010) found it decreases linearly with increases of effective temperature. A similar phenomenon was found by Wu et al (2019) but with operative temperature in which 1 ℃ increase in operative temperature resulted in 0.02clo decrease in clothing insulation. Indraganti (2010b) explained that clothing adaptive actions change the layers of clothing on https://doi.org/10.15405/epms.2019.12.39 Corresponding Author: Zeyad Amin Al-Absi Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2421-826X 406 different parts of the body, which results in an increase or decrease with the air movement around the skin and change the sweating process of the body.…”

“…It is highly dependent on the environmental control facilities in terms of availability and variability. In addition, thermal adaptive behaviour is usually linked with naturally ventilated/free-running buildings to achieve comfortable conditions (KC, Rijal, Shukuya, & Yoshida, 2018;Wu et al, 2019). However, it can be noticed also with mechanically conditioned buildings (KC et al, 2018).…”

Evaluation of thermal comfort in building transitional spaces - Field studies in Cardiff, UK

“…The reported respondents' clothing in the questionnaire surveys were converted into numerical values, with reference to ASHRAE Standard 55-2013 [27] and ISO 7703:2005 [28]. In order to reduce the impact of outliers in the database, a binning method, which is common in comfort research [29][30][31][32], was adopted by taking the weighted averages for every half-degree-Celsius bin. Figure 5 illustrates the linear regression plots between the average clothing value and the indoor operative temperature and outdoor temperature respectively for the summer period.…”

“…In order to identify the neutral temperature for the three selected case buildings, weighted linear regressions were performed. A binned method was adopted by setting the increments of indoor operative temperature at half-degree-Celsius in order to eliminate the outliers [29][30][31][32]. The mean TSV of each bin was determined.…”