ANALYSIS OF THERMAL COMFORT FOR STUDENT RESIDENTIAL IN IBS BUILDING (UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS)

Abstract

Various efforts have been made to improve the level of the thermal comfort to each individual, especially thermal comforts in residential buildings. Thermal comfort level in residential buildings have a great impact on emotional and physical occupants. Perfect thermal comfort will result as a good quality of interior atmosphere. This is because a person's quality of life will be influenced by the level of thermal comfort felt. Comfortable temperatures in the home give a big impact on the level of one's self-esteem while the hot temperatures in the home can invite various problems such as sweating, tiredness, skin allergies and many more. The study of thermal comforts in the building of the Industrialized Building System (IBS) concept is aimed at identifying the comfort level of IBS residential building using a natural ventilation system. The main objective of the study is to find out the level of thermal comfort, and to define the effect of thermal discomfort study in IBS conceptual buildings as well as identifying the insulation level within the IBS conceptual building. This study is to identify the comfortable temperature at night in the student residential buildings of University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) in IBS concept in Perlis, Malaysia. Based on literature review, hourly weather data simulation in the existing residential building design was conducted to analyze indoor air temperature. The internal temperature is simulated much higher than the internal design conditions proposed in MS 1525: 2007 for the determination of thermal comfort. This finding discusses about the environment of potentially heat discomfort in different residential buildings in the city, in Malaysia. Adaptive Model of thermal comfort will be used in this study to determine the level of comfort of residential dwellers with reference to ASHRAE 55: 2013 standards. This study also helps researchers and academicians understand more clearly and in detail how the degree of thermal comfort in IBS conceptualized residential buildings is identified.