Maximum temperatures in buildings to avoid heat discomfort

This paper looks at the ways in which summer overheating can be avoided in European - and in particular UK - office buildings. Starting with the results from field surveys expressed in adaptive comfort theory the paper defines comfortable conditions and the range of acceptable temperature around these in both free running buildings and those which are heated or cooled. Data from the EU project SCATs and other surveys is used to explore how an upper envelope of acceptable temperatures might be defined.