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Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers
atelierten.com
Quantifying Outdoor Thermal Comfort
International Building Services and Environmental Engineers
We are an international team of building services engineers, environmental designers and lighting designers focused on delivering sustainability in the built environment.
We have been designing “green” buildings for 20 years and have evolved a team with the broad range of complementary skills that are essential to the design of high performance buildings of the future.
London
New York
New Haven
San Francisco
Abu Dhabi
CFD and Building Services
Duct-Flow
Air-to-Earth Heat-Exchangers
Thermal Storage
Fans
Stratification
External Air-Flow
Human Comfort
Well supported in Star-CCM+
Predicted Mean Vote
Predicted Percent Dissatisfied
(ISO 7730)
Empirical mapping:
PVM = f(Environment)
PPD = f(PVM)
Shades and canopies
Landscaping and vegetation
Fountains and ground-water
Outdoor Factors
Universal Thermal Climate Index
Can be implemented in Star-CCM+
Equivalent temperature
Based on the dynamic response of
a Physiological Model
Model inputs:
Dry bulb temperature
Relative humidity
Air speed
Mean radiant temperature
Image taken from “Calculating UTCI Equivalent Temperature”, Poster Presentation at the 13th International Conference on
Environmental Ergonomics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 2-7, 2009
Universal Thermal Climate Index
Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers
atelierten.com
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38 Kingsland Road
London, E2 8DD
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