Evaluation of the Duration of Indoor Comfort by Computer Simulation

According to Federal Law No. 384 «Technical Regulations on the Safety of Buildings and Structures», buildings are subject to requirements for insolation and sun protection, lighting, noise protection, indoor microclimate, etc. An analysis of the existing standard methods for calculating the corresponding positions made it possible to establish that these requirements are achieved without checking their mutual influence in the annual operation cycle. At the moment, there is no calculated indicator in the regulatory literature that summarizes the listed requirements in the form of a single final level of comfort in building premises. The study presents full-scale measurements of the microclimate parameters of a public building during the year, which made it possible to establish the characteristic periods of discomfort, their duration and causes. The results of the field study are compared with the calculated values obtained by computer simulation. It is shown that the use of the modeling method based on visual programming makes it possible to predict the duration of discomfort in the room and their periods in the annual cycle of operation, depending on the structural, thermal engineering, space-planning and other parameters of the building, as well as the climate of the construction region. It was found that thermal, light, insolation comfort is not constant throughout the year. The necessity of substantiating the comfort parameters through the duration of their provision during the year is revealed.

A.S. PETROV, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture, Russia, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (1, Zelenaya Street, Kazan, 420043, Russian Federation)

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