Thermal Comfort and Overheating Risks in Queen's Building, UK

This dissertation investigates thermal comfort and overheating risks in the Queen's Building at a university campus, focusing on summertime conditions. The study utilizes a HOBO pendant to record temperature data, analyzing indoor and outdoor temperatures to assess overheating risks. The research aims to enhance understanding of high temperatures and thermal comfort, comparing adaptive and static thermal comfort criteria. It explores the impact of building characteristics like age and type. The findings suggest indoor temperatures can exceed outdoor temperatures during the day, leading to overheating, and that occupant behavior like window opening plays a crucial role. The study emphasizes the importance of building regulations and design considerations to mitigate overheating effects, promoting occupant well-being. The research highlights the need for construction managers and architects to consider sun orientation and ventilation strategies to combat summertime overheating. The report also references existing literature and proposes future research directions to improve building design and thermal comfort in the context of climate change.

INTRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION SUMMARY
 This dissertation is aimed at examining comfort
measurement and thermal comfort in the queens building.
 It also analyzes the risks which come with the overheating
in these buildings.
 This paper hence will analyze the overheating risks which
will be recorded using the HOBO pendant which will record
data for overheating risks and thermal comfort in queen's
building at university building during summertime.

 For recent years the United Kingdom has been facing
crisis of housing because of frequent changes in the
policies of the construction practices.
 After a boom in social construction housing between the
years the 1950s to 1980s to meet the higher demand of
highly growing population in an urban area the
government changed construction policies [1].
 For this, the government stopped the constructions of the
new houses and privatize the existing social housing to
construction companies.

BACKROUND TO THE RESEARCH PROBLEMS
in the United Kingdom, the impact of the summertime temperature
was experienced in the year 1990s' hot weather events .
The heatwave of August 2003 in European led to over 2000 new
deaths in Wales and England, this accounted for about 16% of the
total death during that time where the lowest average temperature
recorded was 190 C.
Even though if the current dwelling is adapted to help accommodate
changes in temperature, there is a peril and fear that domestic
mechanical air conditioning will be eventually common in the
Queen's Building during summertime [2] .

 The risk of overheating and its impacts on occupants’ thermal
consolation is as of now an issue in a private building model tried
over diverse climates in Europe Numerous thinks about have
been carried out with the point to get it those warm consolation
levels that trigger occupants’ activities and to classify them.
 These consider to illustrate that one of the major uncertain issues
concerning overheating concerns the insufficient building
envelope and building frameworks [3].
 There are also records to propose that European private building
stock that has experienced ‘systemic retrofit’ plans to progress the
warm execution in winter are presently confronting over-heating
issues in summer

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
 Aims of the study
 The aim of this dissertation paper is to use the HOBO pendant device to
measure the comfort in the queen´s building and risks of overheating in
Queen's Building at university building during summertime.

Objectives of this dissertation
To enhance understanding of the high temperatures during the summertime as
well as the thermal comfort in Queen´s Buildings at the university building.
To use the HOBO pendant in recording the thermal comfort in Queen´s
Buildings at the university building.
To help contrast the adaptive and static thermal comfort criteria as
overheating risks measures [4] .
To investigate the impact the location impact, age, built the type of these
Queen´s Buildings at the university building.

KEY LITERATURE
 The measurement of comfort levels rather the climate of a
room which influences the levels of satisfaction of an
occupant of a room is an imperative aspect with reference
to the utilization of internal space.
 It affects the feeling of contentment and health, the
concentration levels and creativity of an individual
productivity of buildings that are used for commercial
purposes.

 The aim of each building is always to give the occupants
the utmost comfortable/ favorable environment possible.
 The comfort levels can also be referred to as cosines. For
they represent the set of rules or parameters used to
measure the comfort offered by a given room.
 The technical embodiment of rules used to represent the
climate of a given room is known as DIN EN 15251. All
these factors are categorized under one roof presumed as
indoor air quality.

PROPOSED METHOD
 The data of the indoor temperature and the outdoor
temperature were recorded using the HOBO pendent
sensor.
 The recorded data were then exported to the HOBOware
for plotting of graphs.
 The graphs obtained helped in the analysis of the indoor
temperature.

 The observed rooms detailed generally show high indoor temperatures that are not
suitable for occupants’ thermal comfort.
 The in-situ estimations were conducted to measure ambient air temperature amid a
long-term heatwave.
 This data is then employed in the energetic simulation displaying using the HOBO
software which helps in giving an in-depth understanding of the effect of material
properties utilized in energy efficient building frameworks and innovations in
building energy performance and also how this ought to be considered for
appropriate retrofit conveyance to combat exacerbated climate change

POTENTIAL FINDING
 Some of the findings from this study illustrated that the indoor
temperature of the Queen´s building was lower than the outdoor
temperature during the day.
 During the summertime the indoor temperatures were relatively
higher resulting to overheating effects [5] .
 Due to higher temperature the building dwellers adopt some
behaviors to help the adopt. For example keeping the windows and
door open during the day.

 The work will also be very important and highly
concerned with building regulations and guidelines and
actions during the constructions [6] .
 It will also help in ensuring the health and wellbeing of the
dwellers in so many building which will be constructed in
the United Kingdom.
 Queen´s building would be a pilot research study / project
with a close attention to the 21st century global warming
effects.