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Thermal Comfort Principles and Practical Applications for
Residential Buildings
by Robert Bean, Fellow
ASHRAE, Distinguished Lecturer, Retired Engineering
Technology Practitioner
Three Key Principles:
Heat loss and gain
calculations are not thermal comfort calculations.
HVAC design in of itself is not thermal comfort design.
HVAC contracting in of itself is not thermal comfort
contracting.
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details of what thermal comfort design is all about.
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Thermal Comfort
Thermal Comfort
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Thermal Comfort
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Thermal Comfort & IAQ
Thermal Comfort Myths
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Thermal Comfort Survey Part I
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Toxic
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Under slab insulation
Validating Designs
Water Heater Efficiency
Water Heaters as Boilers
Windows
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Walls for Cold Climates
Zoning a
Building Guide
Building and IEQ Wisdom
28 bits of wit, wisdom & witticisms
“…a rational calculation of heating and air-conditioning systems
must begin with the conditions for comfort…”
Prof. P.O. Fanger
"Current building codes do not specify
criteria for IAQ; they simply mandate the capacity of the
ventilation system"
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Design for People - Good
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Since the times of Hippocrates, Vitruvius,
Nightingale and Galton, the health sciences and building sciences
have studied
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Do
you really know what thermal comfort is?
Image Credit:©
Dr. Gary Settles
The fundamentals of thermal comfort
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Room
thermostats vs your own thermostats
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Modelling thermal comfort
Screen shot from ASHRAE 1383 Software
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.
How will your indoor climate system score?
Building sciences: Scanned electron microscope (SEM)
images of materials of construction 
Flooring Guides
365 Day Transient Soil Temperature Analysis
Finite Element Analysis of
hourly temperatures around a foundation in Calgary,
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