In my May 2016 article, “The Radiant Roads to School Design,” I was in the middle of designing a building with a radiant heated and cooled slab with DOAS/openable windows for ventilation for the College of Continuing and Professional Education (CCPE) at CSU Long Beach (CSULB). I suggested that this direction would be better for a learning environment, but, at the time, I didn’t have any actual feedback from students or faculty in the building as to whether the system performed as expected.
In researching for this article, I found many references that link student performance to sound, comfort, and indoor air quality. Here is an excerpt from a Penn State University article, “The Importance of School Facilities in Improving Student Outcomes,” from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy Analysis, College of Education: