Open AccessIndoor environmental quality and global comfort: an in-field study in workspaces
Author(s) -
Giuseppina Emma Puglisi,
Giorgia Spigliantini,
N Oggiani,
Louena Shtrepi,
Marco Carlo Masoero,
Stefano P. Corgnati,
Arianna Astolfi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012169
Subject(s) - thermal comfort , environmental quality , perception , architectural engineering , workspace , quality (philosophy) , computer science , indoor air quality , air quality index , environmental science , work (physics) , simulation , engineering , psychology , meteorology , geography , environmental engineering , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , political science , robot , law
The EN 16798-1 specifies the requirements to assess indoor environmental quality (IEQ) considering thermal, air quality, lighting and acoustics domains. A drawback of the standard is that it is based on an objective evaluation approach and does not account for the subjective perception. Also, the standard does not assess global IEQ nor comfort as a single index for the interaction of all the domains. This work tests the metrics proposed in the standard relating them to the occupants’ evaluations. An in-field monitoring campaign was performed in the ARPA headquarter in Aosta (Italy), acquiring quantities to be correlated with the subjective perception of IEQ gained through surveys. An insight on the possible approach to communicate IEQ and comfort feedbacks to the occupants was investigated to promote their awareness. Preliminary results show that the occupants’ perception can be predicted by adopting the approach proposed in EN 16798-1 in the case of thermal comfort, but limitations emerge about air quality, lighting and acoustics. Such result allows investigating how the environmental variables considered by the standard (e.g., the maximum sound pressure level or the maximum CO 2 concentration) can be adopted as predictors of comfort, thus how new parameters and assessment methods should be introduced.