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This question occurs to me from time to time, but I never remember to ask it. When HVAC systems are designed, does anyone bother to take into account "wind chill factor?" I've been feeling about ready to freeze to death in my office for quite some time, in spite of the thermostat being set for and the temperature reading about 75 degrees F. However, there was a day earlier this week that the ventillation system had something go wrong and it was shut down in my office for about a day. The temperature dropped down to about 68 F, but I was relieved to finally feel warm in my office. The difference? I didn't have a vent over top of me constantly blowing air at me. I realize that there is a need for a certain amount of air exchange in buildings, but does it make sense for it to be so great that I end up cranking up the thermostat to account for wind chill factor while in an office? (It could just be a really crappy HVAC system...Russ has experienced the wind tunnel when he visited me some time ago and we walked through one corridor that is rather drafty, to put it mildly.)
(On the plus side, the broken lab ventillation system that had the opposite problem of leaving the rooms overheated without enough air flow to remove unhealthy fumes finally got fixed when we threatened to cancel our classes after I got sick from being overheated one day and insisted that the students shouldn't have to spend more time in a lab than I could tolerate.)
(On the plus side, the broken lab ventillation system that had the opposite problem of leaving the rooms overheated without enough air flow to remove unhealthy fumes finally got fixed when we threatened to cancel our classes after I got sick from being overheated one day and insisted that the students shouldn't have to spend more time in a lab than I could tolerate.)