Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers

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Quantifying Outdoor Thermal Comfort

International Building Services and Environmental Engineers

We are an international team of building services engineers, environmental designers and lighting designers focused on delivering sustainability in the built environment.

We have been designing “green” buildings for 20 years and have evolved a team with the broad range of complementary skills that are essential to the design of high performance buildings of the future.

London

New York

New Haven

San Francisco

Abu Dhabi

CFD and Building Services

Duct-Flow

Air-to-Earth Heat-Exchangers

Thermal Storage

Fans

Stratification

External Air-Flow

Human Comfort

Well supported in Star-CCM+

Predicted Mean Vote

Predicted Percent Dissatisfied

(ISO 7730)

Empirical mapping:

PVM = f(Environment)

PPD = f(PVM)

Shades and canopies

Landscaping and vegetation

Fountains and ground-water

Outdoor Factors

Universal Thermal Climate Index

Can be implemented in Star-CCM+

Equivalent temperature

Based on the dynamic response of

a Physiological Model

Model inputs:

Dry bulb temperature

Relative humidity

Air speed

Mean radiant temperature

Image taken from “Calculating UTCI Equivalent Temperature”, Poster Presentation at the 13th International Conference on

Environmental Ergonomics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 2-7, 2009

Universal Thermal Climate Index

Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers

atelierten.com

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