A multi-media teaching package on comfort and building design

This paper describes a multi-media teaching package MULCOM, being developed within the EC DG XVII SAVE programme. The product, at present under development, is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the field study and laboratory approach to thermal comfort with further sections on visual and acoustic comfort. The second part deals with the practical issues of building design and components to minimise energy consumption in the realisation of these comfort conditions and consequent operational standards in buildings. The paper presents the case for the package, the computer methodology and the pedagogical approach used. Examples are given of the way in which it is intended that the package will be constructed and used