7. Thermal and visual comfort
7.1 Heat exchange
The body is constantly exchanging heat with its immediate environment.
Thermal comfort is the feeling of well-being when the humidity, speed and temperature of the ambient air are optimal.
Clothing enables people to control the effects of these exchanges, which take place in three different ways (figure 10 ):
by conduction: heat transfer by contact between hot and cold parts without displacement of material;
by convection: heat exchange with gaseous fluids resulting in convection currents that set them in motion;
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Bibliography
Website
The glass portal http://www.verreonline.fr/
Regulations
FFPV professional rules
Council of State decrees – RT 2012 and certificates of compliance with thermal regulations for new buildings:
Decree no. 2010-1269 of October 26, 2010 on the thermal characteristics and energy performance of buildings
Decree no. 2011-544 of May 18, 2011 on certificates of compliance with thermal...
Standards and norms
- Glass in construction – Determining the luminous and solar characteristics of glazing - NF EN 410 - 04-11
- Glass in construction – Determining the thermal transmittance U – Calculation method - NF EN 673 - 04-11
- Appendix A – Solar shading devices combined with glazing – Calculating solar and light transmittance – Simplified method - NF EN 13363-1 - 05-04
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