PMV for Design & Operation

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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
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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
fbetz at aeieng.com | www.aeieng.com

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Thank you so much, it is very useful tool. Compliments to developer and thanks Fred in publicising it.
Best Regards,
Sarfraz

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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.

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Max

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