Journal
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages 361-378Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.02.049
Keywords
Overheating; Temperature; Monitoring; Housing; Dwellings; Climate change
Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/E016375/1]
- RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology grant [EP/K011839/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K011839/1, EP/P022405/1, EP/E016375/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K011839/1, EP/E016375/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In light of current climate change projections in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the assessment of indoor overheating in domestic environments in previously heating-dominated climates. This paper presents a monitoring study of overheating in 122 London dwellings during the summers of 2009 and 2010. Dry Bulb Temperature and Relative Humidity in the main living and sleeping area were monitored at 10 min intervals. The ASHRAE Standard 55 adaptive thermal comfort method was applied, which uses outdoor temperature to derive the optimum indoor comfort temperature. It was found that 29% of all living rooms and 31% of all bedrooms monitored during 2009 had more than 1% of summertime occupied hours outside the comfort zone recommended by the standard to achieve 90% acceptability. In 2010, 37% of monitored living rooms and 49% of monitored bedrooms had more than 1% of summertime occupied hours outside this comfort zone. The findings of this study indicate that London dwellings face a significant risk of overheating under the current climate. Occupant exposure to excess indoor temperatures is likely to be exacerbated in the future if climate change adaptation strategies are not incorporated in Building Regulations, building design and retrofit. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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