Hygrothermal comfort within the context of social housing and the perceptions of dwellers
Abstract
In Chile the construction of social housing has been subject to a series of requirements aimed at providing dwellers with minimum living conditions. These requirements range from the social to the structural aspects of housing. The Thermal Building Regulations currently in force establishes a series of requirements intended to address some of the conditions of social housing, such as hygrothermal comfort.Hygrothermal comfort determines a series of factors such as humidity, temperature and ventilation of inhabited spaces and is directly related to the features of dwellings, the environment and inhabitants. The above regulations are specifically focused on thermal aspects, which have been modified over the last years through the incorporation of new specifications for roofs, walls, ventilated under-floors and windows.
Despite these advances in these regulations, has this progress been reflected in the perception of inhabitants about their dwellings?
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