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Investigating the principal adaptive comfort relationships for young children

Investigating the principal adaptive comfort relationships for young children
Investigating the principal adaptive comfort relationships for young children
Thermal comfort surveys in school classrooms suggest that children have different thermal preferences to adults. This implies a need to revisit the current adult-based thermal comfort models. This paper investigates the principal adaptive comfort relationships that form the basis of adaptive comfort theory, using 2693 pupil thermal sensation responses and measured classroom temperatures from surveys in two naturally ventilated school buildings. The data were examined in two steps. Firstly, each survey set, obtained over one-day visits to the schools, was examined in order to derive the relationship between indoor temperature change and comfort vote with minimum impact of adaptation. Secondly, the data set was investigated over the entire survey period in relation to the weather experienced by the pupils in order to estimate their time for adaptation to outdoor temperature changes. The analysis shows that the basic adaptive comfort relationships are valid for children. However, a difference was found for the correlation coefficients of the comfort temperature to the outdoor running mean temperature between the schools, and a mismatch between their adaptive comfort equations. It is proposed that the difference in the consistency of the weather during the tests is the main reason for this discrepancy.
adaptive comfort, children, griffiths constant, natural ventilation, school buildings, school classrooms, thermal comfort
0961-3218
371-382
Teli, Despoina
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James, P.A.B.
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Jentsch, M.F.
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Teli, Despoina
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James, P.A.B.
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Teli, Despoina, James, P.A.B. and Jentsch, M.F. (2015) Investigating the principal adaptive comfort relationships for young children. Building Research & Information, 43 (3), 371-382. (doi:10.1080/09613218.2015.998951).

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Thermal comfort surveys in school classrooms suggest that children have different thermal preferences to adults. This implies a need to revisit the current adult-based thermal comfort models. This paper investigates the principal adaptive comfort relationships that form the basis of adaptive comfort theory, using 2693 pupil thermal sensation responses and measured classroom temperatures from surveys in two naturally ventilated school buildings. The data were examined in two steps. Firstly, each survey set, obtained over one-day visits to the schools, was examined in order to derive the relationship between indoor temperature change and comfort vote with minimum impact of adaptation. Secondly, the data set was investigated over the entire survey period in relation to the weather experienced by the pupils in order to estimate their time for adaptation to outdoor temperature changes. The analysis shows that the basic adaptive comfort relationships are valid for children. However, a difference was found for the correlation coefficients of the comfort temperature to the outdoor running mean temperature between the schools, and a mismatch between their adaptive comfort equations. It is proposed that the difference in the consistency of the weather during the tests is the main reason for this discrepancy.

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Published date: 15 January 2015
Keywords: adaptive comfort, children, griffiths constant, natural ventilation, school buildings, school classrooms, thermal comfort
Organisations: Energy & Climate Change Group

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Local EPrints ID: 373775
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/373775
ISSN: 0961-3218
PURE UUID: 54d629f1-c938-4ad7-8c4e-16c234a98b82
ORCID for Despoina Teli: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7044-0050
ORCID for P.A.B. James: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2694-7054

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Date deposited: 28 Jan 2015 10:12
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Author: Despoina Teli ORCID iD
Author: P.A.B. James ORCID iD
Author: M.F. Jentsch

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