To keep track of class room climate!
Abstract
Students, teachers and scientists investigate indoor climate in schools in search for relations between heat and productivity. Rooms in schools pose a challenge concerning indoor climate: Many people stay there at the same time for many hours. Great demand is made on them concerning concentration. Future climate scenarios show an increase of heat days. Heat will be more strain in future, even in the months Mai and June, that are relevant or schools in Austria. Teachers and students feel affected by heat heavily. There is not much literature about heat and power of concentration. This question is the topic of this project in cooperation with three schools. The relation between heat and concentration shall be quantified. Therefore measurements of indoor climate (temperature, relative humidity, CO2 and particulate matter) and periodic psychological tests are planned. Students shall keep records of their personal estimation of thermal comfort and concentration. Simple realizable actions will be developed that improve the climate situation in schools.
keywords Indoor Climate Heat Thermal Comfort Research-Education Cooperation
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Project staff
Ingeborg Schwarzl
Mag. Ingeborg Schwarzl
ingeborg.schwarzl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-99122
BOKU Project Leader
15.06.2008 - 28.02.2011
Erich Mursch-Radlgruber
Ao.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dr.phil. Erich Mursch-Radlgruber
erich.mursch-radlgruber@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81426
Project Staff
15.06.2008 - 28.02.2011
Bernhard Spangl
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Bernhard Spangl
bernhard.spangl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85113
Project Staff
15.06.2008 - 28.02.2011
BOKU partners
External partners
Mag. Elisabeth Lang, klinische Psychologin mit selbständiger Praxis
none
partner
Med Uni Vienna
Dr. Hanns Moshammer
partner