Assessing visitors' thermal comfort in historic museum buildings: Results from a Post-Occupancy Evaluation on a case study

Martínez-Molina, Antonio; Boarin, Paola; Tort-Ausina, Isabel; Vivancos, José-Luis

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.02.003

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“…These findings could shed light on the findings in previous field studies of spatial transition from outdoors to indoors [ [33], [34], [35], [36]]. They generally found that occupant (visitors) who just arrived the buildings tended to feel warmer than those who stayed longer.…”

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confidence: 70%

Transient human thermophysiological and comfort responses indoors after simulated summer commutes

Zhai

Zhao

Yang

et al. 2019

Building and Environment

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The current study investigates the transient human physiological and comfort responses during sedentary activity following a period of elevated activity in a hot condition. Such metabolic and thermal down-steps are common in buildings as occupants arrive after commuting in summer. It creates a serious problem for thermostatic control, since arriving occupants find their transition uncomfortably warm at temperatures that resident occupants find comfortable. Fifty-nine participants (29 men, 30 women) dressed in 0.6 clo were tested while sedentary for 60 min in 26 °C, after having been exposed to 30 °C for 15min, during which they performed activities metabolically simulating commuting: sitting (SE-1.2 met), or doing three levels of stair-step exercises: low (LEx-2.2 met), medium (MEx-3.0 met), and high (HEx-4.4 met). Subjective comfort and physiological responses (metabolic rate, skin temperature, skin blood flow rate, heart rate, core temperature, and skin wettedness) were collected. Results show that sedentary conditions at 26°C became comfortable and acceptable within 2 min, but thermal sensation required much longer to change from 'warm' or 'hot' to 'neutral': 0, 8, 17, 30 min after SE, LEx, MEx, HEx respectively. Skin wettedness and core temperature did not recover within the60 min. The delays are mainly due to body heat stored during the exercise. A room temperature of 26°C may not provide sufficient cooling after summer commuting. Localized convective cooling of transitional spaces and work areas by ceiling or desk fans represent a way to enhance comfort recovery.

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Transient human thermophysiological and comfort responses indoors after simulated summer commutes

Zhai

Zhao

Yang

et al. 2019

Building and Environment

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“…The survey was prepared following standards ISO 10551 [57]. Several studies adopt the subjecting approach by submitting surveys [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. Sometimes, particular conditions or particular users, such as children in a 4-5 years age range [15,63], require the survey to be integrated or adapted to facilitate the understanding and the filling procedure.…”

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Indoor Thermal Comfort of Pregnant Women in Hospital: A Case Study Evidence

2019

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Despite studies on thermal comfort being consolidated in the scientific literature, people’s well-being in some specific conditions and places, such as hospitals, requires to be further explored. The paper describes the methodological approach adopted to evaluate thermal comfort level and perception of pregnant women hosted in the obstetric ward of a test-bed case (Sant’Orsola hospital in Bologna, Italy). The methodology adopts a mixed approach that compares the results of on-site monitoring by probe (as quantitative data) with the ones of a survey (questionnaire form) delivered to the involved subjects (as qualitative data) to understand if metabolic alteration may influence the pregnant women’s perception of comfort conditions. The first follows ISO 7730, the second, ISO 10551. The comparison between the instrumental collected data and the outcomes of the survey revealed a wide gap between TSV (Thermal Sensation Vote) and PMVm (Predicted Mean Vote, measured on-site). The reason can be identified in the use of a standardized metabolic unit from ISO that does not correctly reflect the physiologic condition of pregnant women. Following a trial and error methodology, a met value for pregnant women is accordingly proposed. Moreover, an adaptive thermal comfort approach is adopted. This research is a first step towards the definition of specific thermal comfort in a hospital ward hosting pregnant women and more generally offers a reflection about the need to define specific met in the standards for some particular categories (children, elderly, pregnant women, etc.) when investigating thermal comfort.

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“…The authors suggested installing exhaust fans which have a potential of reducing the percentage of dissatisfied people by 87-91%. Martinez-Molina et al [18] assessed visitors' thermal comfort in historic museum buildings. The results show that the PMV model predicts the visitors' thermal comfort to be cooler than actual.…”

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Data Acquisition Technologies for Assessing Thermal Comfort in the Built Environment

Kuru¹,

Çalış²

2021

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Nowadays, many buildings are equipped with sensors that acquire large amounts of data, which can be useful to monitor, to understand and to identify thermal comfort conditions in buildings. The studies on thermal comfort of building interior spaces are not only numerical analysis based on program outcomes, but also experimental studies to confirm the results of the analysis. However, the most important factor in achieving the correct result in experimental analysis is to plan the data, to select the technology and to determine the test procedure. This study aims at providing an important source for experimental researchers working on thermal comfort by identifying data acquisition technologies that are utilized for capturing thermal comfort related data. Within this context, the study presents existing instruments utilized for monitoring thermal comfort conditions and provides a guideline with respect to technical properties, deployment strategies and time intervals. The findings of this study will be beneficial to practitioners and researchers for selecting and utilizing the most appropriate data acquisition technology for assessing thermal comfort in indoor environments.

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Assessing visitors' thermal comfort in historic museum buildings: Results from a Post-Occupancy Evaluation on a case study

Cited by 47 publications

References 39 publications

Transient human thermophysiological and comfort responses indoors after simulated summer commutes

Transient human thermophysiological and comfort responses indoors after simulated summer commutes

Indoor Thermal Comfort of Pregnant Women in Hospital: A Case Study Evidence

Data Acquisition Technologies for Assessing Thermal Comfort in the Built Environment

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