Thermal Comfort in Built Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Thermal comfort is a long-standing topic explored by many architectural scientists and landscape achitects, which involves comprehensive knowledge and understanding of environmental, social, psychological, and physiological factors. Although most solid thermal comfort problems have been well studied, there are still many new spaces worth exploring in the context of artificial intelligence (AI), human health, and carbon neutrality targets. For example, how can AI be used to achieve non-invasive monitoring of thermal comfort, instead of traditional questionnaires? How can reasonable thermal comfort control objectives be established and how can the current thermal strategies be adjusted to meet the goal of carbon neutrality? How should the thermal environment change with the dynamics of power supply and human demand conditions? These problems are all significant and need to be answered through new studies on thermal comfort.

Therefore, this Special Issue aims to encourage any new exploration on thermal comfort. Both original research papers and review papers are welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• New interpretation or improvement on thermal comfort model;
• New sensing technologies on thermal comfort;
• New thermal control strategy;
• Thermal comfort and outdoor environment;
• Thermal comfort and landscape design;
• Thermal comfort and human health;
• Thermal comfort and sleeping;
• Thermal comfort for vulnerable populations (i.e., children, elderly, etc.);
• Thermal comfort integrated with other environmental factors (i.e., IAQ, lighting, and acoustics);
• Climate chamber experiment;
• Field test or survey;
• Simulation;
• Case study.

Dr. Bo Hong
Dr. Yang Geng
Dr. Dayi Lai
Guest Editors

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