| dc.description.abstract | Wellbeing inindoor built
environment has become a crucial research
topic in relation to thermal comfort which
help to improve sustainable
builtenvironments. Thus, thermal comfort
requirements for humans is a main
consideration in building designing.It’s
important to consider comfort and wellbeing
of people with physical disabilities. Thus, this
research was conducted to investigate the
indoor environment quality of spaces in
relation to the thermal comfort in physically
disabled war veterans’ housingin Sri Lankan
context.Onfield investigation was carried out
to obtain physical measurements of
microclimatic parameters of interiors
including indoor temperature, relative
humidity and air velocity. Secondary data
were collected through semi structured
interviews.
Results explicitly prove through onfield
investigations that the mean value of the
operative temperature is 32.2°C, which is
above the ASHARE 55-2013 standard for
comfortable thermal conditions.Mean wind
velocity is 0.25m/s, is low, as there is a high
operative temperature adequate interior
ventilation needs to be provided. The
Humphries comfort equation states the
required comfort temperature is 28.92°C, the
obtained mean operative temperature is more
than this comfort temperature, proving the
interiors are overheated. Most common
adaptive behaviour of the veterans are
switching fans on and moving towards open
spaces. Results also indicate that there is a
psychological link with thermal adaptive
behaviour as these veterans opt to remain in
free outdoor spaces rather than confined
spaces as their battlefields. Thus, this research
paper highlights on the thermal conditions
needed for interior spaces for disabled war
veterans and in the long-run contributing to
regulations to add developments to the
National Policy on Disability in Sri Lanka | en_US |
