Title: The 4 Factors of Comfort - Energy Vanguard
Headings: The 4 Factors of Comfort
The 4 Factors of Comfort
Content: Of course, the closer the humidity is to 70%, the lower the temperature needs to be for us to be comfortable. At 70% RH, most of us will want the temperature to be 75 degrees or lower. By keeping the RH at 50% or below, we can tolerate a slightly higher temperature. (These two factors, temperature and humidity, are intertwined in the psychrometric chart. Developed by Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning, the psychrometric chart is fundamental to building science – and perhaps the topic of another article.) So, temperature and humidity are two important factors of comfort. Let’s look at all four factors of comfort now: Temperature. How hot or cold is it? Humans like to be in the range of 70 to 80 degrees, more or less.