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Temperatures of transient spaces during heatwaves

The limits for spaces people use for more than an hour a day, in hot dry and hot humid climates.

These are spaces that people need to use for more than an hour each day like kitchens, bathrooms and corridors. These spaces should not exceed the human limits for temperature. This limit is exceeding an air temperature of 40oC is in a hot dry climate. For hot humid climates a wet bulb temperature of 32-34oC is the limit of human capacity.

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Source: ARC Technical Criteria - 257
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