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Comfort Status in Naturally Ventilated Buildings of North-East India
Singh, Manoj Kumar; Mahapatra, Sadhan; Atreya, S. K.
2008
 

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Keywords :
Naturally ventilated buildings; Thermal comfort; North-East India
Abstract :
[en] A field study has been carried out to evaluate the thermal comfort perception of the occupants in naturally ventilated buildings at different bioclimatic zones of North-East India. The survey also examined the adaptive behavior of the occupants in the usage of climatic control such as windows and fans to modify the indoor environment. The survey was performed in naturally ventilated buildings during the winter, pre-summer season in 2008. There were 220 occupants from 75 vernacular buildings who participated in this study and 200 questionnaire responses were collected. This study is primarily concerns on human thermal comfort from the physiological, adaptive and social convention aspects. The data collected include temperature, humidity and lighting level, as well as results from questionnaires on the occupant’s sensations of thermal comfort. This study also looks into the occupants social and cultural requirements in the vernacular buildings. Thermal acceptability assessment reveals that the indoor environment in naturally ventilated buildings are widely varied across the three bio-climatic zones and also influenced by visual, social and cultural aspects of respective zones. The upper and lower range of acceptable temperatures in naturally ventilated buildings is varied by 2 0C from neutral vote for each climate zone in both winter and pre-summer. The study also attempts to define the comfort status and suggestions are made to improve the comfort status in naturally ventilated buildings of the region.
Disciplines :
Architecture
Energy
Author, co-author :
Singh, Manoj Kumar ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur TLU+C > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire
Mahapatra, Sadhan;  Tezpur University, Assam, India > Energy
Atreya, S. K.;  Indian Institute of technology Delhi, New Delhi, India > IDDC
Language :
English
Title :
Comfort Status in Naturally Ventilated Buildings of North-East India
Publication date :
11 December 2008
Number of pages :
1110-1116
Event name :
Renewable Energy Asia 2008
Event organizer :
IIT Delhi
Event place :
New Delhi, India
Event date :
11-13 Dec 2008
Audience :
International
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