Saleha Binti Abdul Han
Metric No: BK10110266
Topic: PREDICTION OF INDOOR COMFORT TEMPERATURE IN SKTM CLASSROOMS
Abstract: This thesis presents the study of thermal comfort that have been carried out in SKTM (Faculty of Engineering) classrooms, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. It focuses on thermal comfort, which may have a significant effect on the students’ performance, in terms of attention, comprehension and learning levels. The aim of the study was to investigate the thermal comfort and acceptability as well as to predict the differences thermal comfort requirements between genders in the classrooms. The study was made in 3 weeks in May of 2014, from 8am to 10pm, during lesson hours. This study employed subjective and objective assessments through questionnaire and physical measurements. The thermal comfort variables were measured when the students were filling in the subjective questionnaires on thermal comfort. A total of 481 sets of questionnaire responses were obtained. The measured environmental parameters are temperature, air movement and relative humidity values. The subjective responses concerned the respondents’ judgments about their thermal environment. The regression analysis revealed that the air temperature in neutral scale was 27.98°C for classrooms with air conditioning, while for classrooms mechanically ventilated (fan) was 28.79°C. Air conditioned classrooms have lower temperature acceptability than classrooms with fan. It was also found that the comfort temperature and acceptability for males and females are different.