Sabarinah Binti Batling
Metric No: BK10110262
Topic: PREDICTION OF INDOOR COMFORT TEMPERATURE IN UMS HOSTEL
Abstract: This study is prediction of comfort temperature in UMS hostel located in main campus of Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. The objectives of this research are to predict the comfort temperature, acceptable indoor temperature and preferred indoor temperature in UMS Hostel. This research will be carried out only in UMS hostel and the 120 of subjects been selected. The subjects were about 19 to 29 year olds. Data was collected in two approaches which are subjective and objective measurements. The subjective method is based on questionnaires that have been elaborate for this study. Meanwhile the objective measurement is field measurements of environmental parameters using anemometer and hygrometer. The air temperature was between 29.9 0C – 32.2 0C with relative humidity range from 56 % to 73 %. In addition, the air movement was 0.07 m/s to 0.62 m/s. The acceptable temperature in this study was 30.6 0C. The range of clothing ensembles in this study was between 0.24 clo to 0.44 clo and metabolic rate was 1 Met.