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Nova Scotia Home Builders Association
Friday,October 28, 2016
350 Horseshoe Lake Dr.,
Bayers Lake, N.S
(Old Rona building)
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Abstract:
The Vocabulary of Thermal Comfort Quality: Executive
Summary
Author/presenter: Robert Bean, R.E.T, P.L. (Eng.)
Thermal comfort has found itself front and center as a
subject matter of interest within the highly acclaimed Rocky
Mountain Institute, the World Health Organization, and
National Association of Home Builders’ New American Home
initiative. It has also attracted the attention of senior
editors of leading housing publications such as Fine
Homebuilding and has always been a fundamental expectation
within high performance programs such as R-2000, Passive
House, Living Building Challenge and the WELL Building
Standard.
One of the key reasons for the heightened awareness is
exposed in the tension between code built homes where
adherence to a thermal comfort standard is not explicitly
required and demographics. Part of a largely educated
population base is retiring into homes and vacation
properties and placing indoor environmental quality and
durability as desirable features at or above features that
are related to energy efficiency.
Additionally, practitioners are discovering a fundamental
working knowledge of thermal comfort can also lead to a
better understanding of the indoor quality of lights,
sounds, air, odors and vibrations. When applied correctly
the knowledge of this human factor science fortuitously
leads to logical improvements in passive building solutions
such as enclosure performance which by connection reduces
energy use while improving both energy and exergy
efficiency.
Oddly enough, informal research over the past 16 years
involving professionals from across the construction
industry shows 99.9% of polled participants are directly or
indirectly connected to thermal comfort as part of their
business and yet in the irony of irony only approximately 3%
can confidently describe the metrics and only half of those
actually own a copy of ASHRAE Standard 55 or ISO 7730.
This seminar will draw attention to the above observations
using the principles described within the Thermal Comfort
and Indoor Environmental Health chapters of the ASHRAE
Fundamentals Handbook and Standard 55 Thermal Environmental
Conditions for Human Occupancy. It will also lead
participants into an introduction and application of its
principles using an easy to use free online ASHRAE 55
compliance tool.
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