期刊
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
卷 81, 期 -, 页码 410-426出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.07.019
关键词
Thermal comfort; Vegetation; Plants; Building performance; Worker performance; Energy consumption
资金
- TVVL
- Van Dorp Installaties
Several short term studies have found evidence that plants may improve occupant thermal comfort, yet this phenomena has not yet been rigorously evaluated. The aim of this paper is to present the results of a quasi-experiment that evaluated the effect of indoor plants on the thermal comfort of 67 office workers within an office building in De Lier, The Netherlands, for four months, one month each season, in 2013. The participants' thermal comfort was recorded twice a day, while the globe temperature, relative humidity, and light levels of the workspaces were monitored. The indoor operative temperature of the test rooms were varied between typical and more extreme indoor operative temperature ranges throughout the quasi-experiment in a controlled manner. The presence of a substantial quantity of plants in the work environment was found to have a significant effect on the thermal comfort of the participants. For example, the occupants of the two rooms in which the presence of plants was alternated, were both, on average, approximately 12.0% more thermally comfortable when plants were present in the room. In addition, they were approximately 1.79 and 1.95 times more likely to be thermally comfortable when plants were present in the room, respectively. These results indicate that the incorporation of a substantial quantity of plants in office buildings can lead to reduced building energy consumption and carbon emission rates, by allowing the temperature setpoint to be raised in the summer and lowered in the winter. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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