{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Let's Talk Clean Air | Camfil","title":"Professor Stefano Schiavon: Energy Efficiency Occupant Health Together","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1571,"description":"Buildings consume 39% of United States total energy whilst HVAC professionals face constant pressure balancing energy efficiency against occupant health and comfort despite these fields often conflicting in design priorities.\n\nProfessor Stefano Schiavon from UC Berkeley, global leader in thermal comfort with over 15,154 research citations, explains why HVAC systems exist primarily to protect people and create healthy comfortable spaces rather than save energy, how particulate matter sensors throughout buildings enable better control decisions, why furnace fan only mode during wildfires provides automatic air cleaning using existing equipment, and how UC Berkeley's 25 year occupant satisfaction database reveals only 40% of people feel satisfied with thermal environment despite 80% satisfaction targets.\n\nWith expertise spanning personal environmental controls, radiant heating cooling systems and post occupancy evaluation research methods, Professor Schiavon shares practical solutions including smart thermostat automation connecting outdoor sensor networks and why turning systems off when leaving represents simplest most actionable energy saving advice alongside proper professional maintenance servicing.\n\n\n THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT\n\nHVAC systems designed protect people create healthy spaces\nParticulate sensors both intake throughout building enable decisions\nFurnace fan only mode wildfires recirculates large air\nForty percent thermal satisfaction versus eighty percent targets\nTurn systems off leaving professional maintenance simple advice\n\nGUEST DETAILS \n\nProfessor Stefano Schiavon is Professor of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, leading expert in building science researching how to reduce building energy consumption (39% US total energy use) whilst ensuring occupant health, happiness and productivity through improved indoor environmental quality. \n\nKey leader at Center for Environmental Design Research running Berkeley's advanced MS...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ADLBf-l6QPjBJIB2MvWEmg1M6BOgp1G9q5Vh_QRooqc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3Nzk3LzE2NjYx/Nzk2MDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}