Thermal comfort; ventilative cooling; residential buildings; solar shading

Self-evaluated thermal comfort compared to measured temperatures during summer in three active houses where ventilative cooling is applied

Submitted by on Thu, 05/28/2015 - 10:25

The thermal comfort of the residential buildings Sunlighthouse in Austria and LichtAktiv Haus in Germany are investigated with a particular focus on the summer situation and the role of solar shading and natural ventilation. The houses have generous daylight conditions, and are designed to be CO2 neutral with a good indoor environment. The thermal environment is evaluated according to the Active House specification (based on the adaptive method of EN 15251), and it is found that the houses achieve category 1 for the summer situation.