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Summertime temperatures in 282 UK homes: thermal comfort and overheating risk

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posted on 2015-05-13, 13:26 authored by Kevin LomasKevin Lomas, Tom Kane
Summertime temperatures in UK homes are a matter of increasing concern, particularly because of global warming and an increased incidence of heat waves. Refurbishment adds to uncertainty about the resilience of UK homes to climate change. This paper examines internal summertime temperatures in the living and bedrooms of 282 homes in the UK city of Leicester. This is a statistically representative sample of the citys housing stock. The generally cool monitoring period included a short period of hot weather. Occupant behaviour had a significant impact on internal temperature, 13% of the homes were actively heated even during the spell of hot weather. In the 230 unheated homes, 28% of the living rooms and 88% of bedrooms were classed as severely overheated, as judged by the static, CIBSE, criteria. In contrast, 64% of the living rooms and 71% of the bedrooms were judged uncomfortably cool as defined by the BSEN15251 Cat II adaptive thermal comfort standard.

Funding

The 4M consortium is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under their Sustainable Urban Environment programme (grant EP/F007604/1). It is a collaboration between the Universities of Loughborough, Newcastle, Sheffield, and De Montfort. The authors of this paper are grateful to Katherine Irvine who was instrumental in ensuring the Living in Leicester survey was successful. The map in Figure 1 is copyright the Ordnance Survey MasterMap and was provided through EDINA/DigiMap.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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Proceedings of 7th Windsor Conference: The Changing Context of Comfort in an Unpredictable World

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LOMAS, K.J. and KANE, T., 2012. Summertime temperatures in 282 UK homes: thermal comfort and overheating risk. Presented at: 7th Windsor Conference: The Changing Context of Comfort in an Unpredictable World, 12th-15th April 2012, Windsor.

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Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings (NCEUB)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2012

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This is a conference paper.

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