Thermal comfort / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...Thermal comfort Thermal Comfort focuses on creating a high-quality, comfortable, and productive indoor environment through appropriate temperature, humidity, and airflow control. It goes beyond simple code compliance by mandating the provision of personal thermal control and addressing factors like radiant temperature ...

...Thermal comfort: eliminating drafts and cold spots While all green homes are more comfortable than standard construction, Passive House makes thermal comfort its primary obsession. By eliminating thermal bridges (uninsulated spots in the building envelope) and using high-performance windows, the interior surface temper...

...comfortable? A lot of people have experienced radiant heating but not necessarily radiant cooling. I would qualify that by saying - we may not all have experienced mechanically-designed radiant cooling in a home, but those of us in colder climates at least, know the sensation all too well.  In articles about thermal co...

...comfortable living space. Radiant heat for comfort The benefits of radiant heated floors are many, but first is comfort. When your feet are happy, you are happy. Well at least it helps. It won’t cure a bad mood, but adding cold feet to the mix when you're already feeling crochety is really going to grind your gears. Th...

...comfort: A more accurate reading than air temperature for maintaining a comfortable indoor environment would be the MRT (mean radiant temperature), which is a measure expressing the influence of surface temperatures on occupant comfort.  An even more functional measure of thermal comfort in a building would be the oper...

A resilient home for sustainability Northern Quebec isn’t a place where one might expect to look for a model of resilience. It’s bone-chilling cold in the winter with 10,450 heating degree days per year (Fahrenheit degree-days, base 65°F); there isn’t all that much sunlight in the winter, and Quebec—let alone northern ...

...comfort in even prolonged overcast conditions.  However, at levels of thermal performance like that of the Kenogami House, a centrally located single heater of approximately 2100 w (similar to a powerful hairdryer) would likely be more than sufficient during the most extreme cold, and for the most part not be used at a...