• Shashi Dhar
• Pardeep Singh Cheema
• Ruhit Jyoti Konwar

Abstract – The scientists, engineers and building architects, world over, have set forth many approaches for evaluation of indoor thermal comfort temperatures. Few of them are adaptive thermal comfort approaches provided by A. Humphreys 1978; J. Fergus Nicol and Michael A Humphreys, 2002 and Waqas Ahmed Mahar, et al, 2019. The Humphreys, 1978 model provides low ranges of thermal comfort temperatures while the Nicol and Humphreys, 2002 and Waqas Ahmed Mahar, et. al, 2019 provide slightly high temperatures for thermal comfort zone for the same region. In the present paper the Solar Passive Designed HIMURJA Building has been monitored for evaluation of indoor thermal comfort during winter months of 2020. The monitoring results have been treated against each of the above mentioned adaptive thermal comfort approaches and it has been found that the building remains in comfortable zone under all the above mentioned approaches. The Solar Passive HIMURJA building has been integrated with Thermosyphoning Air Heating Panels, Sun Spaces on the southern its facade. It has an air lock lobby at the entrance; the northern wall is insulated with glass wool and has no windows on this side. All the windows are double glazed. The monitoring results show that these solar passive features are keeping the indoors comfortable throughout the winters.

(Keywords: HIMURJA Building, Thermal Comfort, Solar Passive)

"evaluation of indoor thermal comfort in solar passive designed himurja office building, shimla, himachal Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no.937-948, September 2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009425.pdf

"evaluation of indoor thermal comfort in solar passive designed himurja office building, shimla, himachal Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no. pp937-948, September 2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009425.pdf