EQc5: Thermal Comfort – Above Green

(1 point)

Intent

To promote occupants’ productivity, comfort, and well-being by providing quality thermal comfort.

Requirements

Meet the requirements for both thermal comfort design and thermal comfort control.

Thermal Comfort Design

Option 1. ASHRAE Standard 55-2017

Design heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and the building envelope to meet the requirements of ASHRAE Standard 55–2017, Thermal Comfort Conditions for Human Occupancy with errata or a local equivalent.

For natatoriums, demonstrate compliance with ASHRAE HVAC Applications Handbook, 2015 edition, Chapter 5, Places of Assembly, Typical Natatorium Design Conditions, with errata.

Option 2. ISO Standards

Design HVAC systems and the building envelope to meet the requirements of the applicable standard:

ISO 7730:2005, Ergonomics of the Thermal Environment, analytical determination and interpretation of thermal comfort, using calculation of the PMV and PPD indices and local thermal comfort criteria; and
ISO 17772-2017, Energy Performance of Buildings- Indoor environmental quality- Part 1. Indoor environmental input parameters for the design and assessment of energy performance of buildings Section A2.

Thermal Comfort Control

Provide individual thermal comfort controls for at least 50% of individual occupant spaces. Provide group thermal comfort controls for all shared multioccupant spaces.

Thermal comfort controls allow occupants, whether in individual spaces or shared multioccupant spaces, to adjust at least one of the following in their local environment: air temperature, radiant temperature, air speed, and humidity.

Retail only
Meet the above requirements for at least 50% of the individual occupant spaces in office and administrative areas.