Name: WAGNER GOMES MARTINS
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 29/08/2016
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CRISTINA ENGEL DE ALVAREZ | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CRISTINA ENGEL DE ALVAREZ | Advisor * |
| EDNA APARECIDA NICO RODRIGUES | Co advisor * |
| ELIANA ZANDONADE | External Examiner * |
| JOÃO LUIZ CALMON NOGUEIRA DA GAMA | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The Emergency Antarctic Modules MAE have been serving to the continuity of
the activities undertaken at the Keller Peninsula in Antarctica since 2013, after
the fire that destroyed the main part of the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
in 2012. Taking into account that MAE are located at a protected and extreme
area, the aim of the presented work was to evaluate their performance, with an
emphasis on the thermal comfort, considering the well-being of the users, the
local climate conditions and the necessity of heating, which is carried out from
the burning of fossil fuel. Following the procedures related to the Post-
Occupancy Evaluation methodology, through the application of questionnaires
and conducting temperature and humidity measurements, with the treatment of
the collected data and analysis of results, problems concerning the air
tightness, the distribution of the temperature in the rooms, and behavior in use
were identified. Among the main results, it was found that there was no
correlation between the external temperature and the internal one, being
possible to infer that the envelope keeps the indoor thermal environment well
isolated, despite the sealing problems, and/or that the heating system is
capable of compensating the differences of temperature. It is possible that the
observed temperature drifts have been caused by opening doors, especially in
the summer period, when there are more users in the MAE. The results
obtained by calculating the PMV, which represents the predicted mean vote of
thermal sensation for a group of users in a building, along with the surveys,
showed that the occurrence of cold thermal sensation gets worse with the use
of garments with low coefficient of insulation. Making some adjustments in the
building for example, in the sealing, with an eventual substitution of material
it would probably be possible to achieve a high performance in the MAE and, in
the same way, the comfort obtained would be even higher with some
adjustments in the behavior in use for example, using garments with greater
isolation.
Keywords: Emergency Antarctic Modules, Antarctica, performance, thermal
comfort, Predicted Mean Vote, Post-Occupancy Evaluation.
