Assessment On Thermal Comfort Among Staff In Library Centre Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

Fatin Afiqah, Jajuli (2015) Assessment On Thermal Comfort Among Staff In Library Centre Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Thermal comfort is the state of mind in which expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment. It is an important aspect of the modem building design process as man spends most of the day indoors. As thermal comfort has a significant importance to occupants, this study mainly aiming on determining the level of the thermal comfort among the staffs in the library centre of Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). This can be obtained from the measurement of the parameters that contributing to the thermal comfort which are air temperature, mean radiant temperature, relative humidity, air velocity, clothing level, and metabolic rate. The perception of the occupants were also been considered from the questionnaire survey and being correlated with the parameter measurement result in order to fmd its relationship with the thermal comfort evaluation. The Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied (PPD) that have been calculated from the comfort parameter data showed that it is comply with the recommended American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard.

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