Summertime Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviours in Mixed-Mode Office Buildings in Harbin, China

Zhang, Ran, Sun, Cheng, Sharples, Steve ORCID: 0000-0002-6309-9672, Han, Yunsong and Zhang, Hongrui (2018) Summertime Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviours in Mixed-Mode Office Buildings in Harbin, China. In: 34th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 2018-12-10 - 2018-12-12, Hong Kong.

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Abstract

This paper presents findings about interactions of occupants’ thermal feelings and adaptive actions within office buildings from a two-week longitudinal survey in Harbin, a north-east city in China with hot summers and severely cold winters. Measurements of the indoor and outdoor environmental changes and occupants’ window opening behaviours were conducted in six mixed-mode office rooms with fans or air conditioning cooling facilities. Thermal feelings and personal characteristics were gained via a panel questionnaire with 67 subjects from these offices to relate the thermal feeling with adaptions and physical conditions. The results showed the common use of the cooling device simultaneously with window opening behaviour, and an extremely high probability of window opening in office rooms with fans during the summer. Common patterns of the predictors for summer period in the severe cold area are identified in the analysis, while only gender for offices with fans and outdoor temperature, indoor and outdoor relative humidity for offices with air-conditioning were important variables in determining the state of the window opening. By comparing of the window opening changes with environmental factors for different thermal feelings, the mechanism of the interaction of occupant and offices building in summer season was further clarified.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Energy, Comfort, Behaviour, Offices
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	09 Oct 2018 08:03
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:15
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3027299