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Comfort sensation vs Environmental Aspects in Office Buildings Comfort sensation vs Environmental Aspects in Office Buildings

Environmental aspects are of high priority for the identification and evaluation of the parameters that affect the design and construction of buildings. Considering that the existing European building stock is a major energy consumer, being responsible for 38% of the total final energy consumption, it is clear that its environmental aspect should be improved. In this framework, the implementation and set of goals determined in both the Directive 31/2010/EU and “20-20-20” targets is imperative for creating an environmental friendly building. However, the occupants’ comfort sensation should not be overlooked. In this line of approach, an evaluation of the indoor environmental parameters was conducted in three office buildings, located in Thessaloniki, Greece, based on the occupants’ comfort sensation. The climate characteristics of the area are similar to those of a series of Mediterranean cities, like Split, Brindisi or Toulon, and all buildings operate under the same microclimate conditions. Moreover, all buildings dated between1995 and2002 ; they comply with the first Greek thermal insulation regulation, hence their building envelopes have comparable features. In order to carry out the environment evaluation, a revealed preference survey was conducted in all cases, determining the occupants' perceived comfort sensation in a Likert scale during the winter and summer period. In detail, an inferential statistical analysis is conducted, specifying the statistically important correlations, regarding the perceived occupants’ comfort sensation and productivity during winter and summer period and a variety of environmental relative parameters focusing on thermal comfort, health and wellbeing, view of the occupants’ based on integrated green certification schemes for buildings such as BREEAM and LEED. Finally, the linkage and determination of the correlations existing between the perceived comfort sensation and the parameters that affect the occupants’ well fair and productivity are imperative as they can help the policy makers to accomplish the vision of a green, not only concerning the energy consumption but also the occupants, building.

Qualitative evaluation ; comfort sensation ; environmental aspect ; Mediterranean region

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