Comparison of Comfort Performance
Criteria and Sensing Approach in Office
Space: Analysis of the Impact on Shading
Devices’ Efficiency
Marco Imperadori, Tiziana Poli, Juan Diego Blanco Cadena,
Federica Brunone and Andrea G. Mainini
Abstract Indoor occupant comfort has been related to total building energy consumption, and some of its components (lighting, heating, and cooling mainly),
together with carbon production, also with occupants’ productivity, learnability,
and health. However, few works relate comfort to the circular economy and are
barely related to the circularity of the selected building materials or systems. This
work is intended to evaluate how the dynamism of a building envelope (triggered
by different comfort preferences) disturbs the efficiency of the building and maintenance activities (Linked with the following correlated research projects: (1) Research
title: Imaging processing on determining eye strain (ongoing), Participant research
groups: VELUXlab & SEEDLab.ABC).
Keywords Interactive buildings · Visual comfort · User-centered approach ·
Building operation maintenance
1 Occupants’ Comfort and Energy
A significant share of the energy consumed by buildings is intended for delivering
proper indoor conditions for most of its occupants. These proper indoor conditions
are generally referred as comfort conditions, which have been defined by ASHRAE
55 as “…condition of mind which expresses satisfaction with the environment….”
Therefore, it encompasses different components, namely thermal, visual, acoustic,
air quality, layout distribution, and others.
The indoor environment depends on the combination of various physical parameters, and hence, multiple plant systems are needed for managing all of them in
parallel. Most of the plant systems have a dynamic operation, with the intention of
properly handle the physical parameter variations, generated by mutable weather
M. Imperadori · T. Poli (B) · J. D. Blanco Cadena · F. Brunone · A. G. Mainini
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: tiziana.poli@polimi.it
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_36
381
Criteria and Sensing Approach in Office
Space: Analysis of the Impact on Shading
Devices’ Efficiency
Marco Imperadori, Tiziana Poli, Juan Diego Blanco Cadena,
Federica Brunone and Andrea G. Mainini
Abstract Indoor occupant comfort has been related to total building energy consumption, and some of its components (lighting, heating, and cooling mainly),
together with carbon production, also with occupants’ productivity, learnability,
and health. However, few works relate comfort to the circular economy and are
barely related to the circularity of the selected building materials or systems. This
work is intended to evaluate how the dynamism of a building envelope (triggered
by different comfort preferences) disturbs the efficiency of the building and maintenance activities (Linked with the following correlated research projects: (1) Research
title: Imaging processing on determining eye strain (ongoing), Participant research
groups: VELUXlab & SEEDLab.ABC).
Keywords Interactive buildings · Visual comfort · User-centered approach ·
Building operation maintenance
1 Occupants’ Comfort and Energy
A significant share of the energy consumed by buildings is intended for delivering
proper indoor conditions for most of its occupants. These proper indoor conditions
are generally referred as comfort conditions, which have been defined by ASHRAE
55 as “…condition of mind which expresses satisfaction with the environment….”
Therefore, it encompasses different components, namely thermal, visual, acoustic,
air quality, layout distribution, and others.
The indoor environment depends on the combination of various physical parameters, and hence, multiple plant systems are needed for managing all of them in
parallel. Most of the plant systems have a dynamic operation, with the intention of
properly handle the physical parameter variations, generated by mutable weather
M. Imperadori · T. Poli (B) · J. D. Blanco Cadena · F. Brunone · A. G. Mainini
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: tiziana.poli@polimi.it
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_36
381