An investigation of indoor thermal environment of wooden school building (Case study of SDN 14 Pontianak)

A thermal environment is an affecting factor toward students’ comfort and health at school. One thing that gives an impact on the thermal environment is the selection of building materials, which is influenced by the thermal mass. The use of wooden materials has high potency in reducing global warming and supporting increased thermal comfort. This study aims to explain the inspection result of the school building which has 2 types of buildings, namely the wooden building and the concrete building. The purpose is to find out how the thermal environment is formed in the classrooms in those two buildings and the potential of wood materials. This study used a field measurement method where the case study building was SDN 14 Pontianak. The obtained result indicated that the air temperature variable showed the same phenomenon at each measurement time. The air temperature in the wooden building was always lower compared to the air temperature in the classroom of the concrete building, where the difference reached 2,68 °C. The other variable showed varied phenomena so a general conclusion could not be drawn. It might be affected by other aspects which were not calculated in this measurement.