PAYETTE Principal and Director of Building Science Andrea Love recently spoke at HealthSpaces on patient-centered design and thermal comfort.
There are six factors that impact thermal comfort for a person: clothing insulation, metabolic rate, air speed, humidity, air temperature, and radiant temperature. Two of those factors are controlled by the individual, but the others are all influenced by building design.
In the video below, Andrea shares our research on how these different factors affected thermal comfort and what could potentially be done to address them.
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