Personalised Environmental Control Systems (PECS) allow occupants to adjust their immediate surroundings without affecting others, offering the potential to enhance comfort, health, and well-being while improving building energy efficiency. This webinar presents the state of research and development across the four environmental domains PECS address, drawing on activities developed within IEA EBC Annex 87. It opens with the human benefits of thermal and indoor air quality PECS, then examines the methods used to evaluate their thermal comfort, air quality, and energy performance. Two further talks extend the concept beyond its established thermal and air quality roots into the emerging visual and acoustic domains. Together, the presentations map current evidence, evaluation approaches, and knowledge gaps in personalised environmental control.

This webinar is organized by the IEA-EBC Annex 87, the AIVC & venticool and facilitated by INIVE.

Programme (CEST)

• 13:30 | Welcome & Introduction, Ongun Berk Kazanci (Operating Agent, IEA EBC Annex 87 / DTU, Denmark)
• 13:40 | Human benefits of thermal and indoor air quality PECS, Dolaana Khovalyg (EPFL, Switzerland)
• 13:55 | Q & A
• 14:00 | Advancing Performance Assessment and Standardization of PECS, Ilaria Pigliautile (CIRIAF, Italy)
• 14:15 | Q & A
• 14:20 PECS for Day (Lighting): Human benefits and energy savings, Alessandra Luna Navarro (TU Delft, the Netherlands)
• 14:35 | Q & A
• 14:40 Acoustic PECS: Personalising indoor soundscapes, Simone Torresin (University of Trento, Italy)
• 14:55 | Q & A
• 15:00 | End of webinar

Participation in the webinar is free, but prior registration is required.

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