Field investigation of comfort temperature in Indian office buildings: A case of Chennai and Hyderabad

Both the States grappled with daily outages throughout the survey period. All the buildings, excepting two were forced to run without the AC at least for 2 h daily, while none were prepared well for this. Several design and non-design factors seriously impeded environmental adaptation in buildings, limiting the adaptive operation of windows and fans. Consequentially, thermal acceptability was generally low (62.5%). This calls for architect's serious attention towards environmental and thermal adaptation in buildings, in the era of power paucity and prudent consumption.