Avaliação do conforto térmico em uma sala de aula no município de João Pessoa na Paraíba

Abstract

Concern about well-being, comfort and health are reaching the various activities performed by man. Given this, thermal comfort has been gaining ground in several research lines, aiming to establish acceptable temperatures so that the work can be done more comfortably. Thus, this research aimed to analyze the thermal comfort conditions that are subjected to users of a classroom, a school of the municipal school system, located in the Cruz das Armas neighborhood in João Pessoa, Paraíba. To carry out this research, the guidelines of ISO 7730/2005: Ergonomics of the thermal environment, which uses the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied (PPD) proposed by Fanger, were adopted. , in 1970. Environmental variables (air temperature, mean radiant temperature, relative air humidity, air velocity) and personal or subjective variables (coat index of clothing used and metabolic rate of activity performed) were obtained. As a result of the study, it appears that in the environment in which students and teachers develop their activities is considered thermally inadequate. Thus, the development of activities in the classroom is compromised, since the conditions of the study environment are not in accordance with the guidelines of ISO 7730.