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Thermal Comfort Assessment of Buildings

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Authors:
  1. Salvatore Carlucci

    1. , Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  • Many tools for assessing the thermal comfort quality of a building during the design phase or the operational phase
  • New long-term general discomfort indices harmonized with respect to the three comfort models
  • A new short-term local discomfort index for the American Adaptive comfort model

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)

Part of the book sub series: PoliMI SpringerBriefs (BRIEFSPOLIMI)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. A Review of Long-Term Discomfort Indices

    • Salvatore Carlucci
    Pages 1-20

  3. Comparison of the Ranking Capabilities of the Long-Term Discomfort Indices

    • Salvatore Carlucci
    Pages 21-55

  4. Gap Analysis of the Long-Term Discomfort Indices and a Harmonized Calculation Framework

    • Salvatore Carlucci
    Pages 57-79

  5. The Long-Term Percentage of Dissatisfied

    • Salvatore Carlucci
    Pages 81-99

  6. Conclusions and Future Developments

    • Salvatore Carlucci
    Pages 101-102

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 103-134
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About this book

A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed in scientific literature over the last decades. They aim at describing human thermal perception of the thermal environment to which an individual or a group of people is exposed. More recently, a new type of “discomfort index” has been proposed for describing, in a synthetic way, long-term phenomena. Starting from a systematic review of a number of long-term global discomfort indices, they are then contrasted and compared on a reference case study in order to identify their similarities and differences and strengths and weaknesses. Based on this analysis, a new short-term local discomfort index is proposed for the American Adaptive comfort model. Finally, a new and reliable long-term general discomfort index is presented. It is delivered in three versions and each of them is suitable to be respectively coupled with the Fanger, the European Adaptive and the American Adaptive comfort models.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Salvatore Carlucci

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Thermal Comfort Assessment of Buildings

  • Authors: Salvatore Carlucci

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5238-3

  • Publisher: Springer Milano

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5237-6Published: 12 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-5238-3Published: 24 May 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2191-530X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 134

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Building Physics, HVAC, Energy Efficiency, Design, general

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