Has anyone used PMV (predicted mean vote) in the design of a building? We
are looking for examples where systems, setpoints etc are completely based
on PMV rather than dry bulb temperature. And any performance results - were
people comfortable?
Also, if you've used a different thermal comfort metric for such objectives
I'd be interested to hear about it as well.
Thanks,
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Hayes Zirnhelt, M.A.Sc
Associate, Buildings Practice
Rocky Mountain Institute | T: 303-567-8631 | E: hzirnhelt at rmi.org |
www.rmi.org
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Hayes Zirnhelt, M.A.Sc
Associate, Buildings Practice
Rocky Mountain Institute | T: 303-567-8631 | E: hzirnhelt at rmi.org |
www.rmi.org
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Hayes,
This tool is great, and works for LEED IEQc7 Thermal Comfort compliance as well.
http://smap.cbe.berkeley.edu/comforttool
Play around with it, there's lots of bells and whistles, but it's fairly intuitive.
Fred
Fred Betz PhD., LEED AP (r)BD&C
Senior Sustainable
Systems Analyst
AEI | AFFILIATED ENGINEERS, INC.
5802 Research Park Blvd. | Madison, WI 53719
P: 608.236.1175 | F: 608.238.2614 | www.aeieng.com
fbetz at aeieng.com
Thank you so much, it is very useful tool. Compliments to developer and thanks Fred in publicising it.
Best Regards,
Sarfraz
I've done some experiments with spatially mapping average zone PMV to impact
design decisions, which you can have a look at here:
http://mrcomfy.org/papers/Not_only_Visualization__Simulation_Analysis_Prototyping_MrComfy.pdf
The work done this way was/is mostly academic, but maybe it's still of interest
to you.
Best,
Max