Thermal comfort

Thermal comfort is a state in which the body of a building user is in a balanced thermal balance – which means that he or she is neither too hot nor too cold.

These are individual and subjective feelings, and importantly, thermal comfort does not depend solely on the temperature in the rooms.

The main factors influencing thermal comfort are:

• air temperature in the room,
• relative air humidity,
• air flow speed,
• temperature emitted by the building's structural elements,
• personal factors such as metabolism related to physical activity and thermal properties of clothing

Analyses of whether a building has/will have thermal comfort should be performed at the design stage and when selecting specific technical solutions, and inspections should also be conducted during its use. These analyses result in the determination of PMV, PPD, and DR indicators, which indicate the presence or absence of thermal comfort.

Services provided by EBDN Project

• verification of design assumptions for newly constructed or modernized buildings in terms of achieving the required thermal comfort indicators,
• analysis of thermal comfort indicators in used buildings.