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What does overheating mean in your country?

asked 10 years ago

Theo's avatar

updated 9 years ago

Various countries have their own terminology-regulation for overheating hours (like adaptive EN15251, CIBSE, TM52, 26C). Define the rule for overheating of your country for free running buildings (cooling).

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@Theo, can you provide an example? Are you referring to unmet hours under a cooling load?

Neal Kruis's avatar Neal Kruis  ( 10 years ago )

I think we are talking about, for example, in CIBSE, BB 101 defines overheating as more than 120hrs above 28C, and less than 5C difference between internal/external, or 0 occupied hours above 32C (2 of 3 of these criteria must be met). Theo, is this the kind of info you're talking about?

keb's avatar keb  ( 10 years ago )

Yes, but from different countries around Europe and USA

Theo's avatar Theo  ( 10 years ago )

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answered 9 years ago

With the PHP certification, the overheating in Belgium is solved when the percentage of occupied hours when the operative temperature is above 25°C is less than 5% and for 28°C, less than 1%.

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