Applying adaptive principles: Developing guidance for planning practice
Paper in proceeding, 2019

One of the major challenges of building industry today is to provide indoor spaces allowing the occupants to make themselves comfortable while achieving low energy consumption. Considering the observed increasing temperatures and a more extreme climate, this becomes even more urgent and difficult to accomplish. It is therefore necessary to rely on approaches than contribute to sustainable building design, such as the adaptive approach to thermal comfort which postulates that people are not passive recipients of their environment but adapt behaviourally, physiologically and psychologically.
The concept of adaptive thermal comfort was formulated many decades ago and has been validated in numerous field studies. Temperature thresholds based on adaptive models have been included in international and national standards. However, the overall understanding of how to translate the adaptive principles into design practice and concepts for operating buildings is still limited. Subtask B of IEA Annex 69 addresses this gap: “Strategy and practice of adaptive thermal comfort in low energy buildings”. The subtask aims to develop guidelines for low energy buildings that include the principle of adaptive comfort. This paper discusses the challenges and gaps identified in using the principles of adaptive thermal comfort in building design and operation and outlines the contents of the imminent guideline.

controls

adaptive thermal comfort

building design

climate context

energy efficiency

Author

Runa T. Hellwig

Aalborg University

Despoina Teli

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Services Engineering

Marcel Schweiker

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Joon Ho Choi

University of Southern California

M. C.Jeffrey Lee

National Taichung University of Science and Technology

Rodrigo Mora

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Rajan Rawal

CEPT University

Zhaojun Wang

Harbin Institute of Technology

Farah Al-Atrash

German Jordanian University

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CATE 2019 – Comfort at the Extremes: Energy, Economy and Climate
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Subject Categories

Architectural Engineering

Civil Engineering

Architecture

Building Technologies

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Energy

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