Congratulations to our NUS Project and Facilities Management graduate Ms. Pimpatsohn Sae-Zhang! Her work has been accepted at the 16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate (Indoor Air 2020).
Ms. Sae-Zhang work focuses on studying how long does it take a person to be thermally comfortable inside a building, and how this time can be a differentiator among occupant’s individual thermal comfort preferences. Studying individual thermal comfort preferences is an active research area but the study of this “transition time” (e.g., time that it takes from feeling cool/warm to feel comfortable) is yet thoroughly explored. Ms. Sae-Zhang found that, by using wearable technology to collect occupant’s thermal preferences and data-driven methods, these transition times are a shared characteristic within groups of building occupants with similar thermal preference patterns.
The data collection experiments were supported by Dr. Clayton Miller who also guided Ms. Sae-Zhang and Mr Matias Quintana (a PhD candidate working with Ms. Sae-Zhang) throughout the final year project (and therefore the paper as well) regarding the quality of the manuscripts and storytelling. Ms. Sae-Zhang and Mr Matias Quintana had biweekly discussions regarding the design methodology and type of analysis needed as well as troubleshooting any doubt that could arise. Ms. Sae-Zhang then conducted an extensive literature review, executed the required analysis and wrote both the final year project thesis and the full paper manuscript. #NUS #NUSResearch #NUspfm #BuiltEnvironment
