Thermal comfort of a typical secondary school building in Cyprus

Katafygiotou, Martha; Serghides, Despina

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2014.03.004

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“…Sixty-nine percent found their classrooms to be cold most of the time. These issues were very similar to the ones reported in studies such as Katafygiotou and Serghides (2014).…”

Section: Thermal Comfortsupporting

confidence: 89%

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An Evaluation of Indoor Environmental Quality and Occupant Well-Being in Manitoba School Buildings

Radwan¹,

Issa²

2017

Journal of Green Building

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This exploratory research aims to evaluate indoor environmental quality in the classrooms of three school buildings in Southern Manitoba, Canada, and to evaluate the well-being of these schools' teachers as it pertains to their perception of their classrooms' indoor environment. The schools include a middle-aged, conventional school; a new, non-green school; and a new, green school certified using the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system. The methodology involved using a mobile instrument cart to conduct snapshot measurements of thermal comfort, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics in classrooms and an occupant survey to evaluate teachers' long-term satisfaction with their classrooms' indoor environmental quality. The results showed that the new, green and new, non-green schools' classrooms performed better than the conventional, middle-aged school's classrooms with respect to some aspects of thermal comfort and indoor air quality only. Teachers in the new, green school and in the new, non-green school were more satisfied than teachers in the conventional, middle-aged school with their classrooms' overall indoor environmental quality, lighting quality and indoor air quality. Surprisingly, the new, green and new-non green school classrooms' performance were very comparable with the new, green school's classrooms performing statistically significantly better with respect to relative humidity. Similarly, none of the differences in teachers' satisfaction ratings between the new, green and new, non-green school were statistically significant.

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“…Sixty-nine percent found their classrooms to be cold most of the time. These issues were very similar to the ones reported in studies such as Katafygiotou and Serghides (2014).…”

Section: Thermal Comfortsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Higgins et al, 2005). Moreover, most studies (Katafygiotou & Serghides, 2014;De Giuli et al, 2015) investigated very small samples of schools. Only a few (e.g.…”

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An Evaluation of Indoor Environmental Quality and Occupant Well-Being in Manitoba School Buildings

Radwan¹,

Issa²

2017

Journal of Green Building

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“…The study revealed that 83% of students surveyed prefers cooler air temperatures. Similar investigations were conducted by O'Donovan et al [14] and Katafygiotou and Serghides [15].…”

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confidence: 76%

Preliminary results of thermal comfort analysis in selected buildings

2017

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Abstract. The paper analyses thermal comfort in an intelligent building. Intelligent buildings are now widely seen both in Poland and abroad as a result of developments in engineering sciences. However, data on the thermal comfort provided in the buildings are limited. The research described in this paper was carried out in ENERGIS intelligent building of the Kielce University of Technology. The parameters measured included air temperature, relative air humidity, air flow rate and carbon dioxide concentration. Average radiation temperature was determined. The key element was the study of thermal sensation in occupants present at the time of the measurements. The studies were performed in classrooms during the class. The students completed a questionnaire at the beginning and end of the class. The persons present in the classrooms evaluated their thermal sensations using a seven-level thermal comfort scale. The questionnaire included such questions as the type of clothing and the degree of physical activity of the people sitting in the classroom. On the basis of the measurements of classroom microclimate parameters, PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) and PPD (Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied) indices were determined. The responses from the questionnaires provided actual average assessment of thermal sensation and actual percentage of dissatisfied people.

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“…Generally, it is required that the HVAC system energy use is minimized but without compromising the comfort and health of occupants [3]. Since people spend 80% to 90% of their time in indoor spaces, appropriate indoor air quality (IAQ) and comfort must be provided [4].…”

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confidence: 99%