Open AccessOccupants’ Responses to Naturally Ventilated Buildings in Northern Guizhou, China
Author(s) -
Jing Liu,
Ting Cai,
Yang Xia,
Yu Ma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/474/7/072058
Subject(s) - thermal comfort , architectural engineering , environmental science , clothing , urbanization , thermal , china , civil engineering , computer science , engineering , meteorology , geography , ecology , archaeology , biology
With the acceleration of urbanization, suggestions that are based on findings gathering from field studies on building refurbishment, new building design and building operation and maitenance are essential to achieve building energy saving and carbon emmision target. Therefore, a field investigation on thermal comfort and adaptive responses of occupants in naturally ventilated buildings were conducted during winer time in Zunyi. Without central heating system supply, the mean value of indoor air temperature is 14.86°C. But more than half of occupants (57.9%) who were satisfied with surrounding thermal environment. People are active to utilize various strategies to restore thermal comfort of their own. Adjusting clothing levels and using heating devices (e.g. fan heater, portable hand warmer, etc.) are the most popular adaptive behaviours helping them alleviate thermal discomfort caused by lower and humid thermal environment. The aPMV model is developed with adaptive coefficient of -0.33. The findings obtained from this investigation fill gaps in similar researches in northern Guizhou and provide guidelines on building indoor thermal environment improvement considering passive design strategies in this area.