7. Future research
Providing a comfortable environment with good indoor air quality for the occupants is a high priority for a building. To obtain thermal comfort in hot and humid climates, air conditioners are widely used and consequently energy consumption is increased. In Malaysia, the use of air-conditioning indeed continued to rise from
13,000 units in 1970 to more than 250,000 units in 1991, and the number of air conditioners is expected to increase to about