Indoor Environmental Quality :: Radiant Based HVAC

Online educational resource on achieving indoor environmental quality with radiant based HVAC systems

Fundamentals of indoor environmental quality / thermal comfort and air quality solutions using radiant based HVAC

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	Since the times of Hippocrates, Vitruvius, Nightingale and Galton, the health sciences and building sciences have studied energy and indoor environmental quality.
	“…a rational calculation of heating and air-conditioning systems must begin with the conditions for comfort…” Prof. P.O. Fanger
	Do you really know what thermal comfort is? Image Credit:© Dr. Gary Settles
	The fundamentals of thermal comfort Image Credit: ©Dr. ArthurTucker/SPL
	Room thermostats vs your own thermostats Image Credit: © Martin Dohrn / SPL
	What makes a building comfortable?
	Finite Element Analysis of two wall assemblies. Image credit © Bean / Posey. Blue is the outer surfaces. Notice the cold penetrating the wood stud in the bottom image but not in the top image

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