Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 111, 2019
CLIMA 2019 Congress
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Article Number | 02059 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Indoor Environment Quality and Others | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911102059 | |
Published online | 13 August 2019 |
Quantification of indoor environments and study of thermal comfort in naturally hostel buildings in the tropical country, India
1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Punjab) - 1440011, India
2 Department of Human and Social Systems, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan.
* Corresponding author: sanjay@nitj.ac.in
Hostel buildings prime objective is to provide better thermal environments to the students for their good health and learning performance. In India, a very few studies are done on the thermal environments of multi-storied naturally ventilated hostel buildings. We carried out a thermal comfort study in two mid-rise (~G+5 floors) naturally ventilated (NV) hostel buildings during monsoon season (August-September, 2018). The field study conducted for three consecutive weeks collecting 642 valid subjective responses with objective information regarding thermal parameters of 253 rooms. Statistical analysis of student’s responses and measured thermal environment variables was performed for assessing inter buildings effects, different weather conditions (rainy or cloudy) and daytime duration (morning, afternoon and evening), respectively. The study finds the mean thermal neutrality at 29.9°C for the studied group using Griffiths’ method. The results suggested that more than 80% of subjects were voting within central three categories when indoor operative temperature ranged between 28-32.1°C. The primary adaptive action of occupants includes switching on the fans (100%) followed by the opening of external doors (80%) and opening or closing of windows (55%) to restore thermal comfort in built environments.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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