Investigation of thermal comfort of selected temporary evacuation center in tropical climate at Melaka

Hassan Basari, Muhammad Nazirul (2022) Investigation of thermal comfort of selected temporary evacuation center in tropical climate at Melaka. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Temporary evacuation centers (TECs) are especially important in the event of a disaster. Unexpected disasters will cause property to be destroyed and the victims involved will have no place to shelter. With the TEC, it is able to place the victims involved in one area. TEC has some problems when too many victims are in the area. Among the problems that occur are uncomfortable conditions, hot areas due to overcrowding and the health of individuals will be disturbed. This study will examine the relation of thermal comfort in TEC. Factors identified in this study are air temperature, wind speed, humidity, ambient heat temperature, type of clothing and activities performed. To find out the comfort of the individual in the place, the software "CBE thermal comfort tool" is used to solve the problems encountered. The data obtained will be used in the software. The areas used are schools in the state of Melaka, namely SK Durian Tunggal, SJK (C) Sin Wah and SMK Bukit Katil. In the school, four things were taken into account in the data collection, namely the readings of air temperature, wind speed, humidity, and ambient heat temperature. For data collection for ambient temperature, humidity and heat temperature, the method used was by placing a globe thermometer with a height of 1m from the floor. The globe thermometer is placed in the center of the tent to get a good reading. For wind speed data, an anemometer is used to obtain the readings. An anemometer is placed in front of the tent to get a more accurate reading, this is because the passage of the tent door is one of the passages for air to enter. As the data from SK Durian Tunggal at 2.00 pm the temperature is 32.1℃ is the high from the reading. When hot weather the air humidity that get is 47% to 67%, besides that the reading for air velocity is between 0.1m/s to 0.5m/s and the range of globe temperature is 23℃ to 25.2℃. In addition, the survey method, which is by using a google form, is distributed to the victims involved. Based on the results obtained, several factors will affect the readings collected, among them are natural factors. Natural factors such as hot weather or rain will make the data obtained be in a comfortable state or not. The findings of this study indicate that comfort in flooded areas is not only influenced by individual activities but also surrounding factors.

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