Personal Environmental Control System (PECS) with the functions of heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and acoustic has advantages of controlling the localized environment at occupant’s workstation by their preference instead of conditioning an entire room. This improves personal comfort, health and energy efficiency of the entire heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system substantially. Personalized ventilation will also provide improved protection against cross contaminations, which are critical in open plan offices and workplaces with close distance. The application is for workplaces with mainly sedentary activity like offices (open plan, banks, control centres, etc.).

As a part of the IEA EBC Annex 87 on Personalized Environmental Control Systems, this webinar presented field applications of PECS with a global perspective and discusses its benefits and limitations in buildings.

This webinar was organized by the IEA-EBC Annex 87 (https://annex87.iea-ebc.org/), the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (https://www.aivc.org/) & venticool (https://venticool.eu/) and facilitated by INIVE (www.inive.org).

AGENDA (CET)

• 10:30 | Welcome & Introduction, Bjarne W. Olesen (ICIEE/DTU, Denmark) | Slides , Recordings
• 10:40 | Field experiences with PECS in The Netherlands, Marije te Kulve (bba binnenmilieu, the Netherlands) | Slides, Recordings
• 10:55 | Performance of Personalized Ventilation installed in Open-Plan Offices, Arsen Krikor Melikov (DTU, Denmark) | Slides, Recordings
• 11:10 | The PECS journey in Singapore – From Field Environmental Chamber studies to Field studies, Chandra Sekhar (NUS, Singapore)  | Slides, Recordings
• 11:25 | Utilization and Evaluation of PECS in a Research Facility Office in Japan, Shin-Ichi Tanabe (Waseda University, Japan) | Slides, Recordings
• 11:40 | Questions and answers | Recordings
• 12:00 | End of the webinar

For further information please scroll down to download the slides and view the recordings.