A STUDY OF OCCUPANTS THERMAL COMFORT IN URBAN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN SEVERE COLD REGIONS DURING THE WINTER
Indoor thermal comfort in residential buildings significantly influences comfort perception,residents'quality of life,and building energy consumption.This paper focuses on residential buildings in Harbin,where 14 ur-ban households are sampled to collect empirical data on indoor thermal environments at different stages of winter.The analysis reveals the thermal environment's status during winter,considering both time and space dimensions.By integrating the results of subjective survey questionnaires,we establish a model for during different actual thermal sensation winter phases for inhabitants of severely cold areas and calculate the thermal neutral temperatures as 24.0,24.1℃,and 24.3℃,respectively,with desired temperatures at 24.5,25.1℃and 25.6℃.A comparison between the actual thermal sensation model and the traditional Predicted Mean Vote(PMV)model reveals the adaptive ther-mal comfort of urban residential occupants in severe cold regions.
thermal environmentadaptive thermal comfortfield studyurban residential buildingssevere cold regions