Long-term field survey on thermal adaptation in office buildings in Japan

Thermal comfort and occupant adaptive behaviour in Japanese university buildings with free running and cooling mode offices during summer

“…This behaviour is unlikely to be practiced in offices because of the formal surroundings. Meanwhile, in studies done by Hwang et al [34] and Kwok [42], who observed students in classrooms, clothing adaptation involved putting on and taking off extra clothing like jackets and sweatshirts [36,38]. In general, the mean clothing insulation values of occupants in the FR and CL mode offices were approximately 0.50 clo, which means that they were in compliance with the typical clothing types specified by the ASHRAE Standard 55 for the summer season.…”

“…The usage of stand fans is quite widespread in tropical and humid climates [36,37] because of their effectiveness in obtaining larger indoor air velocities. Occupants also use smaller personal fans to locally increase air velocity in their immediate surroundings [38]. As has been observed by Indraganti [39] in her study, occupants with access to fans tend to disregard other adaptive actions like opening windows, changing clothing etc.…”

Rational selection of heating temperature set points for China's hot summer – Cold winter climatic region

“…Studies conducted by Langevin et al [23] and Goto et al [24] confirm that the higher level of perceived control over thermal environment the occupants have, the wider temperature range they can accept. Decentralized heating facilities in China's HSCW enhances occupants' perceived personal environmental control, even if they don't exercise it, further contributing to their tolerance of a wider temperature range.…”

Achieving thermal comfort in naturally ventilated rammed earth houses

“…The adaptive model was then adopted by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers' (ASHRAE) Standard 55 [21], in particular for investigating the thermal comfort of a naturally ventilated building, where there are opportunities for the occupants to adjust their thermal environment by, for example, opening the windows or turning on fans, and where the occupants are free to adapt their clothing to the indoor and/or outdoor thermal conditions. During the last decade, numerous studies have been conducted on the thermal comfort of naturally ventilated buildings around the world, such as studies from McCartney and Nicol [22] (in Europe), Indraganti [23], Indraganti et al [24], Indraganti and Rao [25] (in India), Candido et al [26] (in Brazil), Goto et al [27] (in Japan), Zhong et al [28] (in China), and Saman et al [29], as well as Soebarto and Bennetts [30] (in Australia).…”