Preferred Temperature in an Air-Conditioned Building: A Climate Chamber Experiment
- Department of Architecture, Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang,Selangor, Malaysia
Published in The First NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 26 June 2016, pages 45 to 47. New Zealand Academy of Applied Research. ISSN 2463-5979 (online), 2463-5960 (print).
Abstract
This paper documents the findings from series of climate chamber experiments on preferred temperatures gathered from 29 college-age participants from The University of Sydney, Australia. The analyses include monitoring of participant's core temperature, 7-point skin temperatures, participant's preferred temperature and thermal sensation throughout a total of 180 minute experiment duration. The mean individually determined preferred temperature from 29 participants was 25.1°C (± 1.2) and mean skin temperature of 33.7°C (± 0.6). The findings are compared with those of similar experiments conducted about 20 years ago, in warmer climatic zone and with different types of participants. Statistically insignificant differences suggest that occupants cannot be naturally adapted to prefer warmer ambient temperatures.
Keywords: Preferred Temperature; skin temperature; thermal sensation; thermal preference; climate chamber
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