Thermal Comfort in Built Environment: Challenges and Research Trends

Dear Colleagues,

In order to advance building technology and achieve the goals of creating "low-carbon" and "healthy" buildings, the theoretical science of human thermal comfort has been given a new task in response to global warming and carbon emissions. Future development of human thermal comfort research will mostly take two paths: one is the thorough scientific understanding of the complex relationship between people and their surrounding thermal environment, not just for human comfort needs, but also with an emphasis on the implications for health; the second is the potential for technical improvement brought on by these fresh scientific discoveries, which has the potential to increase individual thermal comfort while also lowering the amount of energy needed to sustain thermal conditions in buildings.

This Special Issue, “Thermal Comfort in Built Environment: Challenges and Research Trends”, in Buildings welcomes excellent original contributions and high-impact works, with the goal of thermal comfort research in special spaces, special populations, and special equipment.

We warmly invite authors to submit their original papers for potential inclusion in this Special Issue on thermal comfort in a built environment.

Prof. Dr. Nianping Li
Dr. Yingdong He
Guest Editors

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