Test rooms to study human comfort in buildings: A review of controlled experiments and facilities

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Pisello, A. L.^1,2  Pigliautile, I^1,2  Andargie, M.³  Berger, C.⁴  Bluyssen, P. M.⁵  Carlucci, S.^6,7  Chinazzo, G.⁸  Belafi, Z. Deme⁹  Dong, B.¹⁰  Favero, M.⁷  Ghahramani, A.^11,12  Havenith, G.¹³  Heydarian, A.¹⁴  Kastner, D.¹⁵  Kong, M.¹⁰  Licina, D.¹⁶  Liu, Y.¹⁰  Luna-Navarro, A.¹⁷  Mahdavi, A.⁴  Nocente, A.¹⁸  Schweiker, M.¹⁹  Touchie, M.³  Vellei, M.²⁰  Vittori, F.²  Wagner, A.²¹  Wang, A.¹⁴  Wei, S.²² 

[1] Univ Perugia, Dept Engn, I-06125 Perugia, Italy

[2] Univ Perugia, CIRIAF Interuniv Res Ctr, Perugia, Italy

[3] Univ Toronto, Dept Civil & Mineral Engn, Toronto, ON, Canada

[4] TU Wien, Dept Bldg Phys & Bldg Ecol, Vienna, Austria

[5] Delft Univ Technol, Fac Architecture & Built Environm, Delft, Netherlands

[6] Cyprus Inst, Energy Environm & Water Res Ctr, Nicosia, Cyprus

[7] Norwegian Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Trondheim, Norway

[8] Northwestern Univ, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Evanston, IL USA

[9] Budapest Univ Technol & Econ, Fac Mech Engn, Dept Bldg Serv & Proc Engn, Budapest, Hungary

[10] Syracuse Univ, Dept Mech & Aerosp Engn, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA

[11] Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Bldg, Singapore, Singapore

[12] Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Built Environm, Berkeley, CA USA

[13] Loughborough Univ, Environm Ergon Res Ctr, Sch Design & Creat Arts, Loughborough, Leics, England

[14] Univ Virginia, Dept Engn Syst & Environm, Link Lab, Charlottesville, VA USA

[15] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Bldg E3D, Aachen, Germany

[16] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Sch Architecture Civil & Environm Engn, Human Oriented Built Environm Lab, Lausanne, Switzerland

[17] Univ Cambridge, Dept Engn, Cambridge, England

[18] SINTEF AS, Trondheim, Norway

[19] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Med Fac, Inst Occupat Social & Environm Med, Aachen, Germany

[20] La Rochelle Univ, LaSIE UMR CNRS 7356, La Rochelle, France

[21] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Bldg Sci Grp, Karlsruhe, Germany

[22] UCL, Bartlett Sch Construct & Project Management, London, England

关键词: Test room;    Laboratory;    Climate chamber;    Human comfort;    Human-centric experiments;    Thermal comfort;    Visual comfort;    Acoustic comfort;    Indoor air quality;    Multi-domain comfort;    Energy performance;    Indoor environmental quality;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.rser.2021.111359

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Occupants' comfort perception affects building energy consumptions. To improve the understanding of human comfort, which is crucial to reduce energy demand, laboratory experiments with humans in controlled environments (test rooms) are fundamental, but their potential also depends on the characteristic of each research facility. Nowadays, there is no common understanding for definitions, concepts, and procedures related to human comfort studies performed in test rooms. Identifying common features would allow standardising test procedures, reproducing the same experiments in different contexts, and sharing knowledge and test possibilities. This review identifies 187 existing test rooms worldwide: 396 papers were systematically selected, thoroughly reviewed, and analysed in terms of performed experiments and related test room details. The review highlights a rising interest in the topic during the last years, since 46% of related papers has been published between 2016 and 2020. A growing interest in non-thermal sensory domains (such as visual and air quality) and multi-domain studies about occupant's whole comfort emerged from the results. These research trends have entailed a change in the way test rooms are designed, equipped and controlled, progressively becoming more realistic inhabitable environments. Nevertheless, some lacks in comfort investigation are highlighted: some continents (like Africa and South America) and climate zones are found to be underrepresented, while involved subjects are mainly students performing office tasks. This review aspires to guide scientists and professionals toward the improved design or the audit of test room experimental facilities, especially in countries and climate zones where human comfort indoors is under-studied.

【 授权许可】

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