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Women, Children, the Elderly and the Sick Experience Temperature Differently

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ASHRAE Standard 55 used one body type. The world has many.
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Women generate less metabolic heat. The thermostat does not know this.
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A child’s body surface area to mass ratio makes heat harder to manage.
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Ageing dulls the body’s thermal alarm. The room gets dangerous before it feels wrong.
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Fever, medication, and immobility all break the body’s cooling system.
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Biothermal Microconditioning places comfort where the person sits, not where the duct points.