Dansk deltagelse i IEA EBC Annex 87 - Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Perfor-mance of Personalised Environmental Control Systems

Personalized Environmental Control Systems (PECS) with the functions of heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and acoustics has advantages of controlling the localized environment at occupants’ workstations by their preference. This improves comfort, satisfaction, health of the occupants, and energy efficiency of the entire heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system substantially. Personalized Ventilation (PV) can also protect against cross contaminations. There will be an increasing interest and market for PECS in the future, as buildings will need to be pandemic-proofed. The application of PECS is for work places with mainly sedentary activity such as offices (such as open-plan, banks, control centers). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where many people have been working at home, there will also be an increase in home working places where PECS may be a solution.

IEA EBC Annex 87 - Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalised Environmental Control Systems is aiming to establish design criteria and operation guidelines for PECS and to quantify the benefits of PECS regarding health, comfort, energy, and cost performance. The scope includes all types of PECS for local heating, cooling, ventilation, air cleaning, lighting and acoustic, such as desktop-based systems, chair-based systems, and wearables.