RESEARCH ARTICLE
Field Survey on Human Thermal Comfort Reports in Air-Conditioned Offices in Taiwan
Ruey Lung Hwang1, *, Ming-Jen Cheng 2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2007Volume: 1
First Page: 8
Last Page: 13
Publisher ID: TOBCTJ-1-8
DOI: 10.2174/1874836800701010008
Article History:
Received Date: 7/11/2007Revision Received Date: 14/11/2007
Acceptance Date: 14/11/2007
Electronic publication date: 7/12/2007
Collection year: 2007
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Field experiments, conducted in 29 air-conditioned offices, used survey questionnaires and physical measurements to investigate workers’ subjective thermal responses and comfort perception. A total of 650 individuals participated in the field study. The thermal neutrality and thermal preference of subjects occurred at 25.6°C and 24.1°C respectively. Responses from those subjects suggest a comfort temperature range is 23.8–27.5ºC, that shifts to slightly warmer temperatures by about 0.5ºC as comparing to comfort zone recommended in ASHRAE standard 55. Responses from subjects also indicate that people in Taiwan have a leniency toward the humidity guideline in ASHRAE standard 55, due to acclimate to the humid climate. The findings were compared with the similar studies in hot-humid climate.