公寓楼位于堪萨斯州曼哈顿，是一座12层的公共住房设施。它是专门为62岁以上的老年人设计的，用于一项研究，以对老年公寓的热环境条件进行采样，并确定他们对这些条件的舒适反应。34名居民（平均年龄74岁）通过提供他们的公寓，并通过投票描述他们在测试进行时公寓内存在的条件下的热感觉来参与测试。 舒适的反应包括轻微温暖、中性和轻微凉爽的感觉。产生中性投票的环境条件的平均调整干球温度为25.3°C。当在新的ASHRAE舒适度图表上构建一条25.3°C的线时，发现将KSU-ASHRAE舒适度包络线一分为二，该包络线是根据大学生数据开发的。这一发现进一步支持了现在普遍接受的事实，即热舒适性相对不受年龄的影响。一个意外的发现是衣服的平均绝缘性很低，为0。 49 clo代表受试者的合奏。这与ASHRAE标准55-74的0.5 clo至1.0 clo规格以及KSU-ASHRAE舒适性封套建议的0.6 clo至0.8 clo规格形成对比。引文:研讨会，ASHRAE交易，第86卷，第一部分，加利福尼亚州洛杉矶

The Apartment Tower is a 12-story public housing facility located in Manhattan, Kansas. It was designed especially for senior citizens over 62 and was used for a study to sample thermal environmental conditions in apartments of the elderly and to determine their comfort response to those conditions.Thirty-four residents (mean age of 74 yr) participated by making their apartments available and by casting a comfort vote describing their thermal sensation from conditions existing in their apartment at the time the test was conducted.Comfort responses included feelings of slightly warm, neutral, and slightly cool. The environmental conditions which produced neutral votes had an average adjusted dry-bulb temperature of 25.3°C. When a 25.3°C line was constructed on the new ASHRAE Comfort Chart, it was found to bisect the KSU-ASHRAE Comfort Envelope which was developed with college student data. This finding further supports the now generally accepted fact that thermal comfort is relatively unaffected by age.An unexpected finding was the low average clothing insulation of 0.49 clo for the ensembles worn by the subjects. This is in contrast to the 0.5 clo to 1.0 clo specification of ASHRAE Standard 55-74 and the recommended 0.6 clo to 0.8 clo for the KSU-ASHRAE Comfort Envelope.