TY - GEN
T1 - Study on the thermal performance of office spaces in the tropics
T2 - 34th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture: Smart and Healthy Within the Two-Degree Limit, PLEA 2018
AU - Jusuf, Steve Kardinal
AU - Ichinose, Masayuki
AU - Fukawa, Yuta
AU - Sutida, Sattayakorn
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by research fund of Tokyo Metropolitan Government; the title is "Platform for promoting economic exchange". The representative researcher is Masayuki Ichinose, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Publisher Copyright:
© PLEA 2018.All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Commercial and office buildings often have problems on the aspects of indoor thermal environment and energy performances. The actual performance of these types of buildings, most of the time, are different from the desired performance. A data collection was conducted in an office space of a university building in Singapore as part of the ongoing study, measuring the environmental performance of office buildings across Southeast Asian countries. The objective measurement on the thermal condition shows that most measurement points across office space is at the colder side of the comfort zone. This finding is supported by the survey results where only about 65% of occupants voted for “slightly cool”, “neutral” and “slightly warm” and about 22% of occupants showed “cold” related symptoms on their legs, hands and body at the end of working hours. The calculated neutral temperature range was generally from 24°C to 26°C, while the measured room temperature was mostly below 24°C.
AB - Commercial and office buildings often have problems on the aspects of indoor thermal environment and energy performances. The actual performance of these types of buildings, most of the time, are different from the desired performance. A data collection was conducted in an office space of a university building in Singapore as part of the ongoing study, measuring the environmental performance of office buildings across Southeast Asian countries. The objective measurement on the thermal condition shows that most measurement points across office space is at the colder side of the comfort zone. This finding is supported by the survey results where only about 65% of occupants voted for “slightly cool”, “neutral” and “slightly warm” and about 22% of occupants showed “cold” related symptoms on their legs, hands and body at the end of working hours. The calculated neutral temperature range was generally from 24°C to 26°C, while the measured room temperature was mostly below 24°C.
KW - Office space
KW - Singapore
KW - Thermal performance
KW - Tropics
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086589705
T3 - PLEA 2018 - Smart and Healthy within the Two-Degree Limit: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture
SP - 403
EP - 408
BT - PLEA 2018 - Smart and Healthy within the Two-Degree Limit
A2 - Ng, Edward
A2 - Fong, Square
A2 - Ren, Chao
PB - School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Y2 - 10 December 2018 through 12 December 2018
ER -
