Avaliação de conforto ambiental: uma proposta de revestimento de baixo custo.

Abstract

High or very low temperatures can cause a lot of thermal stress in humans, to avoid this type of problem, housing and other buildings must be built with materials that guarantee thermal comfort for people throughout the day. In view of this, the present work sought to verify in a practical way, in two residences in the city of Patos in Paraiba, the effectiveness of a method that was capable of reducing the internal temperatures of the rooms of the residences in the northeastern semiarid region, combined with the low cost of application and also sustainability. In this way, Expanded Polyextyrene (EPS) boards were used and the internal temperatures of two rooms that had the highest solar incidence during a period of the day were evaluated daily (house 1 the living room; house 2, a bedroom) through a thermohygroanemoluxmeter, collecting the internal temperatures of both rooms to compare them over a period of two months, between November and December of 2022. Therefore, it was found that after using the proposed coating there was a decrease of 1.784°C in the morning and 1.744°C in the afternoon, helping to reduce thermal discomfort.