Thermal Comfort

Thermal comfort is a key factor that contributes to the overall comfort of occupants in a commercial building. This lesson explores a range of variables that commercial building designers focus on to create and maintain a comfortable indoor environment.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Define thermal equilibrium
• Describe how a person's metabolic rate maintains thermal equilibrium
• Explain how mean radiant temperature is used to evaluate the potential thermal equilibrium in a building
• Identify the variables that have an impact on a building occupant's thermal comfort

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