Effects of Heat Saving Measures on Thermal Comfort in an Office Building in Germany
Evaluating Measurement Data From an Office Building in Operation
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https://doi.org/10.52825/isec.v2i.3380Keywords:
Indoor Comfort, Thermal Comfort, Heat Savings, Heating Control Strategy, Single Room Control, Heat-Up Periods, Real-World LaboratoryAbstract
This paper reports findings from a real-world laboratory that examined heat saving potential and room comfort under a range of single room control heating strategies in a fifty person office building with small shared office rooms. Overall room comfort was found to be determined by thermal comfort, by measured indoor air temperatures above 18 ◦C and by users’ perception of the weather. Visual, acoustic and respiratory factors were hardly found to influence overall room comfort. The strategies evaluated comprised no pre-heating to up to 90 minutes of pre-heating before the anticipated arrival of users. None of the strategies produced a marked reduction in reported thermal comfort, whereas heat savings of 9 to 51 % relative to a conventional heating control strategy were achieved.
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Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
Grant numbers MWK31-0421.915-4/155/98;MWK31-88-14/4/1