Research on heating economics and indoor thermal comfort of residential buildings in Beijing in winter

Compares and surveys central heating users and household wall mounted gas boiler users. The result shows that there is significant difference between users in needs of heating environment. Compared with central heating, household heating meets better the need of user’s individuation and increases enthusiasm of behave adjustment better. As to the heating fee, the average cost for household heating is lower than that of central heating. Hence, distributed systems or terminal controllable central systems are more suitable for residential building heating.