Assessment of Thermal Comfort in the Intelligent Buildings in View of Providing High Quality Indoor Environment

Grzegorz Majewski, Łukasz J. Orman, Marek Telejko, Norbert Radek, Jacek Pietraszek and Agata Dudek
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Grzegorz Majewski: District Court, Warszawska 1, 26-610 Radom, Poland
Łukasz J. Orman: Faculty of Environmental, Geomatic and Energy Engineering Kielce University of Technology, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Marek Telejko: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Norbert Radek: Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering, Kielce University of Technology, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Jacek Pietraszek: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, 31-864 Cracow, Poland
Agata Dudek: Institute of Materials Engineering, Czestochowa University of Technology, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: The paper analyses the indoor environment in two modern intelligent buildings located in Poland. Measurements of air and globe temperatures, relative humidity and carbon dioxide concentration in 117 rooms carried out in the space of 1.5 years were presented. Thermal comfort of the occupants has been investigated using a questionnaire survey. Based on 1369 questionnaires, thermal sensation, acceptability and preference votes were analysed in view of their interdependency as well as their dependency on operative temperature, which proved to be very strong. It has been found that the respondents did not completely rate thermal comfort and indoor environment quality as very high, although the overwhelming sensations were positive. Apart from the operation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, this might have also been the cause of individual human factors, such as body mass index, as tested in the study, or the finding that people were generally in favour of a warmer environment. Moreover, thermal environment proved to be the most important element for ensuring the well-being of the occupants.

Keywords: indoor environment; intelligent buildings; thermal comfort; thermal sensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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