The concepts of comfort and health may be related but are not synonyms. New knowledge
has been gathered regarding metabolic health effects of temperature exposure outside the …

Recent studies indicate that the basic premise to provide a tightly controlled thermal indoor
climate is unfounded. On the contrary, research suggests that health and comfort may …

The aim of this paper is to review the literature on human thermal comfort in the built
environment. First an overview about the subject area is presented. This is followed by a …

This paper presents an exhaustive overview of the field studies carried out in the past few
decades on human thermal comfort. To get a better grasp of patterns in observed data and …

It might be assumed that buildings with active mechanical heating/cooling systems will have
a narrower indoor temperature range than those without: that the indoor temperature will be …

Climate change and the urgency of decarbonizing the built environment are driving
technological innovation in the way we deliver thermal comfort to occupants. These …

The experimental basis of the adaptive approach to thermal comfort is the field study. Since
the publication of Bedford's study in 1936, many researchers have collected data on …

We look critically at the principal graphs relating thermal comfort indoors to the climate, and
compare the metrics used for the climate; an exponential running mean of the mean outdoor …

This paper discusses reassessment of indoor climate control in the context of current thermal
comfort practice and research. We review the limitations of comfort models and standards …

There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the
conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require …