End-user satisfactory level Report BE

The main purpose of buildings is to provide a comfortable, healthy and secure indoor environment to the occupants. Therefore, in the building sector, alongside to the economic impact of energy saving measures and refurbishment interventions, improvement of indoor environmental quality is a crucial subject. The aim of the present study is to examine how indoor environmental variables affect the human thermal comfort sensation and vice versa. The deliverable starts with some general considerations on end-user satisfaction evaluation (section 2). In this section, the target of the document, the methodology and a brief state of the art and literature review are presented. In section 3 several elements regarding inhabitants and physical characteristics of the buildings are described. Section 4 is devoted to the topic of in situ measurements of indoor air quality and thermal comfort. In section 5, the results of inhabitant surveys are analyzed. Further, section 6 summarizes the overall satisfaction analysis. In this section the cross-analysis of surveys and measurements of indoor environmental variables is presented. Finally, the main findings and conclusions of the study are summarized in section 7