Steps in Designing an Indicator for Assessing Window’s Effect on Indoor Thermal Comfort

Nan Wang, Neda Ghaeili, Julian Wang

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Abstract

The effects of solar radiation play an important role on human thermal comfort, especially within the near-window zones. When incorporating the solar effect into the thermal comfort model, the comprehensive solar-optical characteristics of windows have to be taken into account, especially when it came to a largely variant or unbalanced spectral distribution of a building window. In this work, we examined the thermal effects varying with different spectral characteristics of glazing systems and also preliminarily proposed a new indicator “thermal effect index (TEI)” that can be used to estimate the impact levels of window systems on indoor users’ thermal comfort in near-window zones. TEI could be used as a benchmark for assessing a window system’s potential impacts on indoor users’ thermal comfort, especially when direct sunlight is enabled in a space.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment
EditorsLiangzhu Leon Wang, Hua Ge, Mohamed Ouf, Zhiqiang John Zhai, Dahai Qi, Chanjuan Sun, Dengjia Wang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages2227-2237
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9789811998218
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment, COBEE 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Jul 25 2022Jul 29 2022

Publication series

NameEnvironmental Science and Engineering
ISSN (Print)1863-5520
ISSN (Electronic)1863-5539

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment, COBEE 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period7/25/227/29/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Information Systems

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