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Building Services Engineering 5th Edition Handbook

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1 Built environment<br />

Learning objectives<br />

Study of this chapter will enable the reader to:<br />

1. relate human physiological needs to the internal and external environment;<br />

2. understand the ways in which heat exchange between the body and its surroundings<br />

takes place;<br />

3. calculate indoor and outdoor thermal comfort equations;<br />

4. identify essential instruments for measuring the environment;<br />

5. understand the thermal environment terminology used by design engineers;<br />

6. recognize the problems of experimental work;<br />

7. make reliable technical reports based on his or her own work and not to copy the<br />

work of others;<br />

8. understand and use the factors that influence indoor air quality;<br />

9. calculate fresh air ventilation rate;<br />

10. know the instrumentation used for indoor environmental monitoring.<br />

Key terms and concepts<br />

air velocity 9; allowed exposure time 14; atmospheric pollutants 4; clo value 8; comfort<br />

equation 8; conduction, convection, radiation and evaporation 3; data logger 11;<br />

decipol 4; dry-bulb air temperature 15; dry resultant temperature 20; environmental temperature<br />

19; equivalent wind chill temperature 13; globe temperature 16; heat stress index 14;<br />

humidity 3; infrared scanner 19; Kata thermometer 17; mean radiant temperature 9; metabolic<br />

rate 8; odorants 4; olf 4; olfactory 4; operative temperature 20; percentage of people<br />

dissatisfied 11; pitot-static tube 18; predicted mean vote 11; sling psychrometer 15; thermistor<br />

anemometer 17; thermocouple 18; thermohygrograph 17; trend 11; vane anemometer 17;<br />

vapour pressure 8; wet-bulb globe temperature 15; wet-bulb temperature 15; wind chill<br />

index 13.

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