Thermal Monitoring and Evaluation of Indoor CO2 Concentration in Classrooms of Two Primary Governmental Schools in New Assiut City, Egypt

Student's achievement is affected by indoor thermal comfort. This study aims at investigating the thermal comfort and indoor CO2 concentration of children's classrooms, in two governmental schools in New Assiut City, as an example of taking the climate into consideration and ensurance of the achievement of thermal comfort by using passive strategies. Monitoring was done for the six parameters to ensure the achievement of thermal comfort during the academic year of 2014 with calculation of occupants' sensation by using Fanger's (1970) model. The results show the majority of classrooms in New Assiut City school range between neutral and slight warm with a maximums value for PPD is 22%. The results have shown that the governmental schools that adopt some passive and environmental strategies are more comfortable comparing to the school prototypes that are built by the general Authority of Educational buildings (GAEB) with an average 89% of the internal temperature out of the comfort range. This study reports the basic information of two new prototypes and relevant thermal comfort to develop the future strategies of sustainable school building and the regulation in hot arid climate. (c) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.