Impact of Material Solutions and a Passive Sports Hall’s Use on Thermal Comfort
High outdoor temperatures and thermal gains due to solar radiation, which penetrates the interior of buildings as the climate warms up, pose a major challenge to maintaining thermal comfort in passive sports facilities. Superbly insulated and airtight envelopes, specific microclimatic requirements a...
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| description | High outdoor temperatures and thermal gains due to solar radiation, which penetrates the interior of buildings as the climate warms up, pose a major challenge to maintaining thermal comfort in passive sports facilities. Superbly insulated and airtight envelopes, specific microclimatic requirements and very high user activity can easily lead to overheating and thermal imbalance during summer. This paper focuses on the influence of the varying thermal capacity of external walls and night-time cooling on thermal comfort in a passive sports hall building. Based on experimental studies of the thermal conditions in the building, a model of it was created in Design Builder. Through simulation, the program initially analysed the thermal conditions that arise under different envelope assemblies. Two different ways of cooling the building at night were then analysed: mechanical and natural. The results presented showed that in a well-insulated sports hall with a large volume, the type of wall material alone had only a limited influence on thermal comfort in summer. In contrast, night-time cooling in integration with the accumulation of cold in the building’s structural components had a significant impact on protection against overheating during the summer. The type of envelope material is even more important when night-time air exchange is high. Intensive natural ventilation is associated with the highest number of hours in the comfort range—28.1–32.4% more hours in relation to the variant without night ventilation. The use of mechanical ventilation, operating at night at maximum capacity, will result in an increase in the number of hours with air temperatures in the −0.5 < PMV < +0.5 range by only 14.1–21.3%. The high thermal mass of the envelope, combined with adequate ventilation, reduces the occurrence of very high indoor air temperatures, thus alleviating the nuisance of overheating. The maximum internal air temperature during the day is lower by 2.4–3.3 K, compared to the case when no night ventilation is used. Mechanical ventilation operating at its maximum capacity can reduce the maximum internal temperature by 1.2–1.6 K. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-506dae6b06814e37bef61fb5d0da12f22023-12-08T15:14:24ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732023-11-011623769810.3390/en16237698Impact of Material Solutions and a Passive Sports Hall’s Use on Thermal ComfortAnna Dudzińska0Tomasz Kisilewicz1Ewelina Panasiuk2Building Design and Building Physics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Kraków, PolandBuilding Design and Building Physics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Kraków, PolandArchitecture of Work-Place, Sport and Favor, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Kraków, PolandHigh outdoor temperatures and thermal gains due to solar radiation, which penetrates the interior of buildings as the climate warms up, pose a major challenge to maintaining thermal comfort in passive sports facilities. Superbly insulated and airtight envelopes, specific microclimatic requirements and very high user activity can easily lead to overheating and thermal imbalance during summer. This paper focuses on the influence of the varying thermal capacity of external walls and night-time cooling on thermal comfort in a passive sports hall building. Based on experimental studies of the thermal conditions in the building, a model of it was created in Design Builder. Through simulation, the program initially analysed the thermal conditions that arise under different envelope assemblies. Two different ways of cooling the building at night were then analysed: mechanical and natural. The results presented showed that in a well-insulated sports hall with a large volume, the type of wall material alone had only a limited influence on thermal comfort in summer. In contrast, night-time cooling in integration with the accumulation of cold in the building’s structural components had a significant impact on protection against overheating during the summer. The type of envelope material is even more important when night-time air exchange is high. Intensive natural ventilation is associated with the highest number of hours in the comfort range—28.1–32.4% more hours in relation to the variant without night ventilation. The use of mechanical ventilation, operating at night at maximum capacity, will result in an increase in the number of hours with air temperatures in the −0.5 < PMV < +0.5 range by only 14.1–21.3%. The high thermal mass of the envelope, combined with adequate ventilation, reduces the occurrence of very high indoor air temperatures, thus alleviating the nuisance of overheating. The maximum internal air temperature during the day is lower by 2.4–3.3 K, compared to the case when no night ventilation is used. Mechanical ventilation operating at its maximum capacity can reduce the maximum internal temperature by 1.2–1.6 K.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/23/7698thermal comfortpassive sports halldiscomfortthermal massnight coolingdesign builder |
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| title | Impact of Material Solutions and a Passive Sports Hall’s Use on Thermal Comfort |
| title_full | Impact of Material Solutions and a Passive Sports Hall’s Use on Thermal Comfort |
| title_fullStr | Impact of Material Solutions and a Passive Sports Hall’s Use on Thermal Comfort |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Material Solutions and a Passive Sports Hall’s Use on Thermal Comfort |
| title_short | Impact of Material Solutions and a Passive Sports Hall’s Use on Thermal Comfort |
| title_sort | impact of material solutions and a passive sports hall s use on thermal comfort |
| topic | thermal comfort passive sports hall discomfort thermal mass night cooling design builder |
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