Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

by Michael Humphreys, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf

There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people's future behaviour based on very little information and, as a result, encouraged static design indoor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415691613
• ISBN13: 9780415691611
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.7"