Thermal Comfort: A Fresh Look at an Old Issue, Part II
Thermal comfort has been a workplace issue for years. Only recently has a vital energy infused the desire for solutions. From beginnings over 300 years ago in the field work of an Italian doctor to its mention in a 1985 workplace study and a seat in the sidecar of numerous indoor air quality improvement programs, the time of thermal comfort solutions may be near. This time is possibly arriving none too soon. Those experienced in managing facilities struggle to understand how there are always some workers who are too warm or too cold while others seem entirely comfortable. There are those workers who are either too hot or too cold regardless of the temperature, time of day or time of year. This human X factor, by turns both fascinating and vexing, represents the variability for which thermal comfort solutions must account. In this conclusion of a two-part series, the topics …
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