Comfort

Chartwell School puts students first with an emphasis on natural daylighting and other passive comfort strategies.


Photo: Michael David Rose

A focus on comfort in building design means a focus on people and their ability to work, learn, and heal. The connection between thermal, acoustical, and other types of comfort and productivity in the workplace is well established.

Because of this, investing in the comfort of occupants is one of the most cost-effective green design strategies. It’s also just common sense: buildings aren’t here for their own sake; they’re here for us.

Comfort

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  • The Hidden Science of High-Performance Building Assemblies

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    Any four walls and a roof make an enclosure, but for efficiency, comfort, and durability, those elements have to be meticulously designed and installed.

  • Doing Daylighting Right

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    Harvesting daylight is a popular way to save energy and promote productivity. But getting it wrong is all too easy-and can have the opposite effects.

  • Verifying Project Outcomes: Which Metrics Work?

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    Project success is increasingly tied to performance metrics, especially EUI. But that doesn’t always capture what owners are really looking for.

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  • What Is Building Science, Anyway?

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    Building science is an integrated discipline that stands many conventional design and construction ideas on their heads.

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort

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    Adaptive thermal comfort broadens our understanding of the comfort zone by accounting for human behavior and perception, and factors like amount of clothing and air movement.

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