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October 15, 2009

Temperature Wars Redux

Hotcold_clk Further to The International Facility Management Association 2009 Report on Temperature Wars, Savings vs Comfort, Forbes follows up with a left hook on thermal comfort at the office...for the full article and more great illustrations see Keep Your Cool by Tara Weiss and Stephen Sweny

Excerpt: "Annie Steinberg typically sits at her desk wearing a ski hat, gloves and a scarf. A space heater, supplied by her company, is operating nearby. Meanwhile, her boss, Bradford Rand, sits in his office at the other end of the floor and frequently opens his window to let the winter air cool off his sweltering office."

RBc: For additional reading see Introduction: Fundamentals of Indoor Environmental Quality, Temperature Wars, The Perfect HVAC Systems is The Human Body, Current State of the Science: Health Effects and Indoor Environmental Quality

Acknowledgement and copyright: Article link attributed to Forbes.com / Text credit: Tara Weiss / Illustration credit: © Stephen Sweny for Forbes.com

Posted by Robert Bean on October 15, 2009 at 10:39 AM in Articles and Papers, Consumers on Comfort, Current Affairs, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Ergonomics, Health, Wellness and Comfort, Human Factors, Indoor Comfort, Indoor Environmental Quality , Interior Design, LEED and Green, The Business of Environmental Ergonomics |

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