Measured and perceived environmental comfort: Field monitoring in an Italian school

A review of human thermal comfort in the built environment

“…The current thermal comfort criteria lead to an underestimation of the thermal sensation of children during the summer [194]. The study of De Giuli et al [195] held in a school in Padova (Italy), found no match between the PMV/PPD and the children's' ASV neither between the adaptive model nor the ASV [196].…”

Thermal comfort models and pupils’ perception in free-running school buildings of a mild climate country

“…The lack of reliability of the PMV to predict the thermal sensation in classrooms prompted Alfano et al [30] to propose an expectancy factor value for the Mediterranean climate which, multiplied by the PMV-value, returns a corrected vote that takes into account the difference in occupants' expectancy. De Giuli et al [31] calculated the PMV-PPD indexes in 4 Italian classrooms under different conditions and compared the results with the students' sensations collected through questionnaires. A clear correspondence between the two approaches could not be found.…”

School Buildings Rehabilitation

“…During winter temperature ranged between 19 and 26 °C and relative humidity between 50 and 60 %, during summer temperatures varied from 27 to 35 °C and relative humidity from 40 to 46 %. de Giuli et al (2014) evaluated the indoor environmental comfort, from March to June, in four Italian classrooms by means of spot-measuring campaigns, long-term monitoring, and surveys. The school building were not equipped with a mechanical ventilation system, therefore CO 2 concentrations were extremely high in all the classrooms, and they decreased as hot season approached since the windows were opened more frequently.…”