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Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice - Principles and practice (Hardcover)
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Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice - Principles and practice (Hardcover)
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The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and
healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and
delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product'
produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where
fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the
climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable
buildings today requires a new approach. This timely book is the
first in a trilogy from leaders in the field which will provide
just that. It explains, in a clear and comprehensible manner, how
we stay comfortable by using our bodies, minds, buildings and their
systems to adapt to indoor and outdoor conditions which change with
the weather and the climate. The book is in two sections. The first
introduces the principles on which the theory of adaptive thermal
comfort is based. The second explains how to use field studies to
measure thermal comfort in practice and to analyze the data
gathered. Architects have gradually passed responsibility for
building performance to service engineers who are largely trained
to see comfort as the product , designed using simplistic comfort
models. The result has contributed to a shift to buildings that use
ever more energy. A growing international consensus now calls for
low-energy buildings. This means designers must first produce
robust, passive structures that provide occupants with many
opportunities to make changes to suit their environmental needs.
Ventilation using free, natural energy should be preferred and
mechanical conditioning only used when the climate demands it. This
book outlines the theory of adaptive thermal comfort that is
essential to understand and inform such building designs. This book
should be required reading for all students, teachers and
practitioners of architecture, building engineering and management
for all who have a role in producing, and occupying, twenty-first
century adaptive, low-car
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