A concept for utilizing detailed human thermal model for evaluation of thermal comfort

This paper presents a concept for more realistic and reliable evaluation of thermal indoorenvironment. A detailed thermal model of a human body, interacting with building simulationmodel, makes it possible to predict transient tissue temperatures of a human body as well aslocal skin temperature levels in realistic working and living conditions. Using thesetemperature distributions of a human body as input data for a new thermal comfort predictionmodel (Hui 2003), both local and overall estimations of thermal comfort of a human body canbe obtained. In the future, these estimations of thermal comfort can be used when analysinglinks between alternative technical solutions vs. productivity and health issues.