Nikolopoulou, Marialena, Kotopouleas, Alkis, Lykoudis, Spyridon (2018) From indoors to outdoors and in-transition; thermal comfort across different operation contexts. In: on-line database. Proceedings of the 10th Windsor Conference: Rethinking Comfort. . (KAR id:66790)
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the investigation of thermal comfort conditions in three very different
operational contexts using meta-analysis of different studies within a similar climatic context in the UK. This
includes extensive surveys indoors from offices, outdoors from urban areas, as well as indoors from airport
terminals. Recent research in airport terminal buildings has highlighted that there are very different user groups,
with diverse requirements for thermal comfort in such facilities. The paper investigates the hypothesis that staff
working in the different areas have needs more similar to those of staff working in offices, while passengers use
the building as a transition area with very different requirements and hence closer to the outdoor environment.
Analysing and comparing the thermal comfort conditions from the different contexts, it explores the role of
adaptation for thermal comfort attainment and satisfaction with the environment and the similarities of very
different operational contexts in terms of their thermal comfort characteristics. Finally, the paper highlighted
techniques for the potential transformation of thermal comfort scales, which can enable comparison between
different types of surveys and inform the wider thermal comfort debate.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | Thermal comfort, meta-analysis |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > Kent School of Architecture and Planning |
Depositing User: | Marialena Nikolopoulou |
Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2018 07:31 UTC |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2022 04:18 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/66790 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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