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Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II

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posted on 2018-07-19, 10:50 authored by V. Foldvary, Malcolm CookMalcolm Cook, Dennis Loveday, Paul C. Cropper
Recognizing the value of open-source research databases in advancing the art and science of HVAC, in 2014 the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II project was launched under the leadership of University of California at Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment and The University of Sydney’s Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Laboratory. The exercise began with a systematic collection and harmonization of raw data from the last two decades of thermal comfort field studies around the world. The ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II (Comfort Database), now an online, open-source database, includes approximately 81,846 complete sets of objective indoor climatic observations with accompanying “right-here-right now” subjective evaluations by the building occupants who were exposed to them. The database is intended to support diverse inquiries about thermal comfort in field settings. A simple web based interface to the database enables filtering on multiple criteria, including building typology, occupancy type, subjects’ demographic variables, subjective thermal comfort states, indoor thermal environmental criteria, calculated comfort indices, environmental control criteria and outdoor meteorological information. Furthermore, a web-based interactive thermal comfort visualization tool has been developed that allows end-users to quickly and interactively explore the data.

Funding

The study was supported by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) grant (URP 1656), 2016-2017 ASHRAE Graduate Grant-In Aid for Veronika Foldvary, British Council and UK Government under the Global Innovation Initiative project scheme, Korea National Science Foundation and the Center for the Built Environment, University of California at Berkeley. Additional support was provided by the Republic of Singapore’s National Research Foundation through a grant to the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) for the Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics (SinBerBEST) Program.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Building and Environment

Volume

142

Pages

502 - 512

Citation

FOLDVARY, V. ...et al., 2018. Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II. Building and Environment, 142, pp. 502-512.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-06-12

Publication date

2018-06-18

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Building and Environment and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.06.022. This is the full author list: Veronika Foldvary Licina, Toby Cheung, Hui Zhang, Richard de Dear, Thomas Parkinson,Edward Arens, Chungyoon Chun, Stefano Schiavon, Maohui Luo, Gail Brager, Peixian Lie,Soazig Kaam, Michael A. Adebamowo, Mary Myla Andamon, Francesco Babich,Chiheb Bouden, Hana Bukovianska, Christhina Candido, Bin Cao, Salvatore Carlucci,David K.W. Cheong, Joon-Ho Choi, Malcolm Cook, Paul Cropper, Max Deuble,Shahin Heidari, Madhavi Indraganti, Quan Jin, Hyojin Kim, Jungsoo Kim, Kyle Konis, Manoj K. Singh, Alison Kwok, Roberto Lamberts, Dennis Loveday, Jared Langevin, Sanyogita Manu, Cornelia Moosmanna, Fergus Nicola, Ryozo Ooka, Nigel A. Oselanda, Lorenzo Paglianoa, Dušan Petras, Rajan Rawala, Ramona Romeroa, Hom Bahadur Rijala, Chandra Sekhar, Marcel Schweikera, Federico Tartarinia, Shin-ichi Tanabea, Kwok Wai Tham, Despoina Telia, Jorn Toftuma, Linda Toledo, Kazuyo Tsuzuki, Renata De Vecchi, Andreas Wagnera, Zhaojun Wanga, Holger Wallbaum, Lynda Webba, Liu Yanga, Yingxin Zhu, Yongchao Zhaia, Yufeng Zhanga, Xiang Zhou

ISSN

0360-1323

Language

  • en

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