The ambivalence of personal control over indoor climate - how much personal control is adequate?

Runa T. Hellwig, Marcel Schweiker, Atze Boerstra

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Abstract

Literature sets personal control over indoor environmental conditions in relation to the gap between predicted and actual energy use, the gap between predicted and observed user satisfaction, and health aspects. A focus on building energy performance often leads to the proposal of more automated and less occupant control of the indoor environment. However, a high degree of personal control is desirable because research shows that a low degree (or no) personal control highly correlates with indoor environmental dissatisfaction and sick building syndrome symptoms. These two tendencies seem contradictory and optimisation almost impossible. Based on current efficiency classes describing the effect of room automation systems on building energy use during operation, fundamental thoughts related to thermophysiology and control, recent laboratory experiments, important lessons learnt from post-occupancy studies, and documented conceptual frameworks on the level of control perceived, we discuss the ambivalence of personal control and how much personal control is adequate. Often-proposed solutions ranging from fully automated controls, over manual controls to dummy controls are discussed according to their effect on a) building energy use during operation and b) occupants perceived control. The discussion points to the importance of adequate personal control. In order to meet the goals for nearly zero energy buildings and for a human-centric design, there is the need to establish design procedures for adequate personal control as part of the design process.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Titel12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics (NSB 2020)
RedaktørerJ. Kurnitski, T. Kalamees
Antal sider8
ForlagEDP Sciences
Publikationsdato30 jun. 2020
Artikelnummer06010
KapitelIndoor climate
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 30 jun. 2020
Begivenhed12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics - Tallinn, Estland
Varighed: 6 sep. 20209 sep. 2020
Konferencens nummer: 5010068
https://nsb2020.org/

Konference

Konference12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics
Nummer5010068
Land/OmrådeEstland
ByTallinn
Periode06/09/202009/09/2020
Internetadresse
NavnE3S Web of Conferences
Vol/bind172
ISSN2267-1242

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