We seek some advice on how to demonstrate thermal comfort compliance for occupied spaces in an industrial warehouse type space in Christchurch, New Zealand. There is heating provided for winter comfort . Natural ventilation provides fresh air throughout the year and passive cooling during summer. There is also mechanical ventilation for air movement only available during summer. As this is an industrial type building the space is nor normally comfort conditioned we throught that the LEED Interpretation ID#10279 is appropriate as follows: "Spaces that are not normally comfort conditioned can only be excluded if they are non-regularly occupied. For regularly occupied spaces that are not normally comfort conditioned, and not able to meet the ASHRAE 55 thermal comfort conditions, the project team must include one or more of the following design alternatives: radiant flooring; circulating fans; passive systems, such as nighttime air, heat venting, or wind flow; localized active cooling (refrigerant or evaporative-based systems) or heating systems; or localized, hard-wired fans that provide air movement for occupants’ comfort" Our question is what do we need to demonstrate compliance with this alternative compliance approach? Is it simply a case of saying we have heating during winter and air movement during summer?
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