Thermal comfort evaluation of naturally ventilated public housing in Singapore

Wong, Nyuk Hien; Feriadi, Henry; Lim, Pier; Tham, Kwok Wai; Sekhar, Chandra; Cheong, David

doi:10.1016/s0360-1323(01)00103-2

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“…Students adapt to the dynamic environment, and they are more accustomed to it than the universal regulations expected. Similar outcomes were also noticed in natural-ventilated public houses in Singapore [8]. The residents regard the thermal conditions acceptable when the analyzed data indicates that they should feel too hot and be thermally uncomfortable.…”

Section: Wider Range Of Comfort Zones In Naturally Ventilated Areassupporting

confidence: 64%

Let in the Wind: A Passive Design Paradigm for Large Buildings in the Inner City of Shanghai and Singapore

Zhang

Lau

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The paper presents a critique on the challenges arising from a prevailing Asian Compact City syndrome featuring a shared mission to build bigger, larger and taller, and discusses plausible remedies. The massiveness and increased building heights in close proximity suffocate the natural ventilation and create urban heat islands, which leads to increased energy demands during the summertime in the Asia mega cities. CITIC Plaza in Shanghai, Westgate and the Education Resource Centre in Singapore are selected as case studies for discussing the potential and possibility of natural ventilation strategy in the urban complex of the inner-city area to archive "green". Compared to the traditional layout with airconditioned atrium, the public space of these selected buildings is naturally ventilated, making the most of the prevailingly seasonal wind. The results of both simulations and field measurements indicate that it is possible and feasible to apply natural ventilation within high-density urban areas. Pedestrianfriendly wind environment can be archived inside the complex by prevailing wind-driven design planning strategy for mega building, which is cost-effective and eco-friendly. The practical experiences of the passive design paradigm for large, big and tall buildings in the inner city could serve as references for other Asian mega cities.

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Section: Wider Range Of Comfort Zones In Naturally Ventilated Areassupporting

confidence: 64%

Let in the Wind: A Passive Design Paradigm for Large Buildings in the Inner City of Shanghai and Singapore

Zhang

Lau

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…Building materials such as concrete and asphalt have significantly different thermal and surface radiative properties than natural landscape, which absorb energy from the sun and convert it to sensible heat. Besides, it has been reported that UHI can be affected by certain ways like the lack of green spaces and water [5]. Another analysis made by Getter and Rowe [6], trace that the UHI phenomenon do not hit the urban only in the day, but also in the night since the absorbed heat is radiated back to the surrounding during the evening.…”

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Green Roof Technology- Mitigate Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect

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Abstract. Alterations on the land surfaces, which are attributed by human activities, especially in cities, cause many implications to the ecosystem. The increase of buildings in cities is reflecting the growth of human activities resulted in a significant temperature increase and warmer pattern in the urban area than the surrounding countryside. The phenomenon defined as urban heat island. This study investigates the application and efficiency of the green roof as an approach to mitigate urban heat island and reducing indoor temperature in a building. Two types of roof models, which consist of vegetative roof and non-vegetative roof, were built to investigate the efficiency of vegetated roof in reducing indoor temperature compared to the non-vegetated roof. The outdoor and indoor temperature and humidity of each roof model were monitored by using RH520 Thermo Hygrometer. The data was collected for three times in a week for 9 weeks at 9:00am to 5:00pm. It was found that the indoor average temperature data for vegetative roof could be reduced 2.4 C from the outdoor average temperature and 0.8 C for non-vegetative roof. The difference of temperature reduction for vegetative roof was greater than the nonvegetative roof, thus indicate that green roof was highly efficient in reducing indoor temperature and mitigate urban heat island impact.

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“…It also extends to individual behavior, such as the need to wear a sweater inside during winter (Fordham 2000). In addition, comfort has increasingly been dominated by a concern with thermal comfort (and the related issues of air flow and ventilation), precluding understanding of its broader meaning and implications (Cooper 1982;Healy and Clinch 2002;Wong et al 2002;Peeters et al 2009). …”

Section: Comfortmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cold Comfort? Reconceiving the Practices of Bathing in British Self-Build Eco-Homes

Pickerill

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Thermal comfort evaluation of naturally ventilated public housing in Singapore

Cited by 160 publications

References 4 publications

Let in the Wind: A Passive Design Paradigm for Large Buildings in the Inner City of Shanghai and Singapore

Let in the Wind: A Passive Design Paradigm for Large Buildings in the Inner City of Shanghai and Singapore

Green Roof Technology- Mitigate Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect

Cold Comfort? Reconceiving the Practices of Bathing in British Self-Build Eco-Homes

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