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Personal Thermal Comfort Systems Introduction and Overview

Air-conditioned buildings are conventionally designed and operated to maintain homogeneous thermal conditions within thermal zones. Maintaining the occupied and unoccupied thermal zones at the same thermal conditions lead to higher energy consumption. More importantly, homogeneous thermal conditions do not address the need for individual thermal comfort preferences of the building occupants. A personal comfort system (PCS) allows the occupants to create desired localized thermal conditions around workstations in the office environment. In this webinar, Prof Rawal has deliberated on the approaches adopted for the PCS to deliver the desired conditions. It also deals with investigative methods adopted to understand the impact of the PCS on achieving thermal comfort, energy, and well being of the building occupant. The webinar includes metrics and conditions prescribed by the literature to design and operate PCS in the buildings. About the speaker: Rajan Rawal is a CRDF Professor at CEPT University and Executive Director of “Centre for Advanced Studies in Building Science and Energy” (CARBSE) at CEPT Research and Development Foundation. His research and education activities revolved around building envelope optimization, building performance simulation, thermal comfort and architectural science education. He serves on organizing the council of Global Cooling Prize and also on several executive boards and journal editorial boards. He is the recipient of Jeffery Cook scholarship by Society of Building Science Educators and is ASHRAE Fellow. He is also Chair Education at the International Building Performance Association (IBPSA). This webinar is part of ‘NZEB Knowledge Series’ – an initiative supported by USAID’s MAITREE program (http://maitree.edsglobal.com) to accelerate the discussions and catalyse actions on Net Zero Energy Buildings in India.