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Multi-Comfort Workshop Report

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Dominic Villeneuve
2018
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Saint-Gobain’s Multi-Comfort approach (2017) promotes the importance of four criteria that can ensure comfort in the built environment: thermal, acoustic, visual and air quality comforts. Although this approach is transversal, other aspects that relate to comfort as experienced in the work place could still be added to make the approach even more comprehensive. This report presents the results of the Multi-Comfort workshop that was run by the Urban sociology lab (LaSUR) from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

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Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Dominic Villeneuve
2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/a4dc1e2b-47d2-4048-9aa9-43007210c249

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Thermal comfort

Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment and is assessed by subjective evaluation (ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55). The human body can be viewed as a heat engine where food is the input energy. The human body will release excess heat into the environment, so the body can continue to operate. The heat transfer is proportional to temperature difference. In cold environments, the body loses more heat to the environment and in hot environments the body does not release enough heat.

Indoor air quality

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is the air quality within and around buildings and structures. IAQ is known to affect the health, comfort, and well-being of building occupants. Poor indoor air quality has been linked to sick building syndrome, reduced productivity, and impaired learning in schools. Common pollutants of indoor air include: secondhand tobacco smoke, air pollutants from indoor combustion, radon, molds and other allergens, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, legionella and other bacteria, asbestos fibers, carbon dioxide, ozone and particulates.

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