<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Human resources are the most important elements of economic units; thus, the efficiency of human work is of crucial importance. Work efficiency can be achieved only in an environment offering optimal thermal comfort. The present study makes use of human subject experiments in order to investigate the joint effect of draughts and warm ceilings on work performance. During the experiments, 10 thermal environments with 5 radiant thermal asymmetries and 2 draught rates were investigated. The most important outcome of the research is the presentation of the combined effect of a draught and a warm ceiling on work performance.</p></abstract>

Human resources are the most important elements of economic units; thus, the efficiency of human work is of crucial importance. Work efficiency can be achieved only in an environment offering optimal thermal comfort. The present study makes use of human subject experiments in order to investigate the joint effect of draughts and warm ceilings on work performance. During the experiments, 10 thermal environments with 5 radiant thermal asymmetries and 2 draught rates were investigated. The most important outcome of the research is the presentation of the combined effect of a draught and a warm ceiling on work performance.

A New Method to Describe the Combined Effect of Draught and Radiant Thermal Asymmetry on Human Work Performance

Dept. of Building Services and Process Engineering

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering

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Human resources are the most important elements of economic units; thus, the efficiency of human work is of crucial importance. Work efficiency can be achieved...

A New Method to Describe the Combined Effect of Draught and Radiant Thermal Asymmetry on Human Work Performance

Published Online: Jul 06, 2020

Page range: 43 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2020-0014

Keywords
Thermalcomfort, Productivity, Radiant thermal asymmetry, Draught, Joint effect, Human subject measurement

© 2020 Balázs András-Tövissi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A New Method to Describe the Combined Effect of Draught and Radiant Thermal Asymmetry on Human Work Performance

Published Online: Jul 06, 2020

Page range: 43 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2020-0014

KeywordsThermalcomfort, Productivity, Radiant thermal asymmetry, Draught, Joint effect, Human subject measurement

© 2020 Balázs András-Tövissi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Thermalcomfort, Productivity, Radiant thermal asymmetry, Draught, Joint effect, Human subject measurement