SUBJECTIVE AND MEASURED THERMAL COMFORT IN ITALIAN UNIVERSITY CLASSROOMS IN HEATED AND FREE RUNNING CONDITIONS

This work examines the applicability of comfort criteria, based on a heat balance model and on anadaptive model, in naturally ventilated classrooms. The adaptive opportunity of students are limitedduring the lesson time, while they are free during the lesson breaks. The field study was conducted byphysical observations, survey questionnaires and behavioral observations. Both field measurementsand subjective surveys were performed at the same time during the regular lesson period.

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