Achieving natural ventilation potential in practice: Control schemes and levels of automation

A major challenge to fully achieve the natural ventilation (NV) potential in green buildings is the control and coordination of windows and the HVAC system. Three main types of control schemes with increasing levels of automation were examined in this study: spontaneous occupant control driven by thermal comfort, informed occupant manual control that follows instructional signals, and the fully automatic window/HVAC control system governed by...