Quantifying Outdoor Thermal Comfort Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers atelierten.com
International Building Services and Environmental Engineers We are an international team of building services engineers, environmental designers and lighting designers focused on delivering sustainability in the built environment. London We have been designing “green” buildings for 20 years and New York have evolved a team with the broad range of New Haven complementary skills that are essential to the design of high San Francisco performance buildings of the future. Abu Dhabi
CFD and Building Services Duct-Flow Air-to-Earth Heat-Exchangers Thermal Storage Fans Stratification External Air-Flow
Human Comfort Well supported in Star-CCM+ Predicted Mean Vote Predicted Percent Dissatisfied (ISO 7730) Empirical mapping: PVM = f (Environment) PPD = f (PVM)
Outdoor Factors Shades and canopies Landscaping and vegetation Fountains and ground-water
Universal Thermal Climate Index Can be implemented in Star-CCM+ Equivalent temperature Based on the dynamic response of a Physiological Model Model inputs: Dry bulb temperature Relative humidity Air speed Mean radiant temperature Image taken from “Calculating UTCI Equivalent Temperature”, Poster Presentation at the 13th International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 2-7, 2009
Universal Thermal Climate Index
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