Ventilation Strategies to Ensure Thermal Comfort for Users in School Buildings: A Critical Review
People spend most of their time indoors, where air quality is crucial to health. In this context, this study conducts a critical review of ventilation strategies in schools to ensure air quality, as well as to guarantee students’ thermal comfort. Based on a bibliographical review, strategies from pr...
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| author | María Teresa Aguilar-Carrasco Remedios María López-Lovillo Rafael Suárez Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez |
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| description | People spend most of their time indoors, where air quality is crucial to health. In this context, this study conducts a critical review of ventilation strategies in schools to ensure air quality, as well as to guarantee students’ thermal comfort. Based on a bibliographical review, strategies from previous studies are identified and evaluated in order to determine their advantages. After a detailed search, a total of 19 articles were selected, which provides a thorough analysis of the ventilation strategies in school buildings considering thermal comfort. The identified strategies were categorized into natural, mechanical, and hybrid types. The results reveal a prevalence of natural ventilation, which accounts for over 50% of strategies in all climates. Mechanical ventilation is less common and is applicable to around 30% of cases. Hybrid strategies, combining natural and mechanical ventilation, are the least used and only appear in oceanic climates, with a usage rate of 20%. Most studies highlight the lack of air conditioning in many schools, making adequate thermal stress management through ventilation crucial. The results analyzed clearly show a lack of studies with optimal results whose ventilation strategies can be replicated in other similar educational buildings, ensuring thermal comfort and air quality. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bb31e50e8e9b4437ba34301c3934e66e2025-08-20T01:56:14ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172025-05-011510544910.3390/app15105449Ventilation Strategies to Ensure Thermal Comfort for Users in School Buildings: A Critical ReviewMaría Teresa Aguilar-Carrasco0Remedios María López-Lovillo1Rafael Suárez2Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez3Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. de Reina Mercedes 2, 41012 Seville, SpainDepartamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. de Reina Mercedes 2, 41012 Seville, SpainInstituto Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Construcción, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. De Reina Mercedes 2, 41012 Seville, SpainInstituto Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Construcción, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. De Reina Mercedes 2, 41012 Seville, SpainPeople spend most of their time indoors, where air quality is crucial to health. In this context, this study conducts a critical review of ventilation strategies in schools to ensure air quality, as well as to guarantee students’ thermal comfort. Based on a bibliographical review, strategies from previous studies are identified and evaluated in order to determine their advantages. After a detailed search, a total of 19 articles were selected, which provides a thorough analysis of the ventilation strategies in school buildings considering thermal comfort. The identified strategies were categorized into natural, mechanical, and hybrid types. The results reveal a prevalence of natural ventilation, which accounts for over 50% of strategies in all climates. Mechanical ventilation is less common and is applicable to around 30% of cases. Hybrid strategies, combining natural and mechanical ventilation, are the least used and only appear in oceanic climates, with a usage rate of 20%. Most studies highlight the lack of air conditioning in many schools, making adequate thermal stress management through ventilation crucial. The results analyzed clearly show a lack of studies with optimal results whose ventilation strategies can be replicated in other similar educational buildings, ensuring thermal comfort and air quality.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/10/5449ventilationthermal comfortschoolstrategyindoor air quality |
| spellingShingle | María Teresa Aguilar-Carrasco Remedios María López-Lovillo Rafael Suárez Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez Ventilation Strategies to Ensure Thermal Comfort for Users in School Buildings: A Critical Review Applied Sciences ventilation thermal comfort school strategy indoor air quality |
| title | Ventilation Strategies to Ensure Thermal Comfort for Users in School Buildings: A Critical Review |
| title_full | Ventilation Strategies to Ensure Thermal Comfort for Users in School Buildings: A Critical Review |
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| title_short | Ventilation Strategies to Ensure Thermal Comfort for Users in School Buildings: A Critical Review |
| title_sort | ventilation strategies to ensure thermal comfort for users in school buildings a critical review |
| topic | ventilation thermal comfort school strategy indoor air quality |
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