Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780367598242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 378 str.

Michael Humphreys; Fergus Nicol; Susan Roaf

Opis

The second volume of a three part work which describes in detail the 'adaptive' approach to thermal comfort. Concentrating on the theoretical aspects of thermal comfort and presenting the latest work in the field, the book also suggests ways in which new models can be developed.

Spis treści

Part I: Foundations  1. Introduction to adaptive behaviour  2. Adaptive Beginnings  3. The emergence of the adaptive point of view  4. Summertime Overheating in Schools  5. The first international conference on thermal comfort  6. Adapting to enforced changes of temperature  7. The First Meta-analysis  8. Clothing outdoors and during sleep  9. Meta-analysis 2: relating climate to indoor comfort  10. The origin of the Oxford Thermal Comfort Unit  11. Fieldwork in Pakistan  12. Raising awareness of the adaptive approach  13. Beginning fieldwork at Oxford Brookes University  14. PMV and the results of field studies  15. Adaptation and the ASHRAE RP-884 database  16. Going international: the SCATs project  Part II: Analysis  17. Introducing part 2  18. Using the Method of Successive Categories to explore the properties of thermal comfort scales  19. Developing, adapting and testing thermal subjective scales  20. A Simple Heat Exchange Model for Thermal Comfort Conditions  21. Regression analysis: general features and effects of data-selection and binning  22. The effects of error in the predictor-variable  23. Mutual relation between room temperature and subjective warmth  24. The relation between regression analysis and probit analysis  25. The dependence of subjective warmth on within-day changes in room temperature  26. Constructing Bell-shaped Curves for Comfort and Temperature  27. Tolerance of seasonal drift of indoor temperature  28. Estimating Neutral Temperatures from Survey Data  29. The adaptive relation between indoor neutral temperatures and the outdoor climate  30. Do people like to feel neutral? Semantic offsets and zero-errors  31. Clothing and thermal behaviour  32. Interactions among environmental variables, adaptation and overall comfort  33. Drawing the threads together

O autorze

Michael Humphreys is known for his pioneering work on the adaptive approach to comfort. He was Head of Human Factors at the Building Research Establishment, and has been a Research Professor at Oxford Brookes University. His scientific interests are the methodology of field studies of environmental comfort, the structure and statistical modelling of human adaptive behaviour, and the interactions between the several aspects of the indoor environment.

Fergus Nicol has led a number of important research projects on comfort, which have influenced thinking internationally. He has authored numerous journal articles and other publications including guidance on comfort and overheating. Fergus convenes the Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings and organises their regular international Windsor Conferences.

Susan Roaf did her PhD on comfort and the windcatchers of Yazd, and after a decade working with Nicol and Humphreys at the Oxford Thermal Comfort Unit, she is now Professor of Architectural Engineering at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. She is a teacher, researcher, designer and author and editor of 21 books including Ecohouse: A Design Guide and Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change.