Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II
Journal article, 2018
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.
Field study
Thermal comfort
Data repository
Visualization tool
Author
Veronika Földváry Ličina
University of California
Toby Cheung
Berkeley Education Alliance for Research, Singapore
Hui Zhang
University of California
Richard de Dear
The University of Sydney
Thomas Parkinson
The University of Sydney
Edward Arens
University of California
Chungyoon Chun
Yonsei University
Stefano Schiavon
University of California
Maohui Luo
University of California
Gail Brager
University of California
Peixian Li
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Soazig Kaam
University of California
Michael A. Adebamowo
University of Lagos
Mary Myla Andamon
RMIT University
Francesco Babich
Loughborough University
Chiheb Bouden
Université de Tunis El Manar
Hana Bukovianska
Slovak University of Technology Bratislava
Christhina Candido
The University of Sydney
Bin Cao
Tsinghua University
Salvatore Carlucci
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
David K.W. Cheong
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Joon Ho Choi
University of Southern California
Malcolm Cook
Loughborough University
Paul Cropper
De Montfort University
Max Deuble
The University of Sydney
Shahin Heidari
University of Tehran
Madhavi Indraganti
Qatar University
Quan Jin
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Hyojin Kim
Catholic University of America
Jungsoo Kim
The University of Sydney
Kyle Konis
University of Southern California
Manoj K. Singh
University of Tokyo
Alison Kwok
University of Oregon
Roberto Lamberts
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Dennis Loveday
Loughborough University
Jared Langevin
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sanyogita Manu
CEPT University
Cornelia Moosmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Fergus Nicol
Oxford Brookes University
Ryozo Ooka
University of Tokyo
Nigel A. Oseland
Building Research Establishment
Lorenzo Pagliano
Polytechnic University of Milan
D. Petras
Slovak University of Technology Bratislava
Rajan Rawal
CEPT University
Ramona Romero
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Hom Bahadur Rijal
Tokyo City University
Chandra Sekhar
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Marcel Schweiker
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Federico Tartarini
University of Wollongong
Shin ichi Tanabe
Waseda University
Kwok Wai Tham
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Despoina Teli
University of Southampton
Jorn Toftum
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Linda Toledo
De Montfort University
Kazuyo Tsuzuki
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Renata De Vecchi
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Andreas Wagner
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Zhaojun Wang
Harbin Institute of Technology
Holger Wallbaum
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Lynda Webb
University of Edinburgh
Liu Yang
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
Yingxin Zhu
Tsinghua University
Yongchao Zhai
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
Yufeng Zhang
South China University of Technology
Xiang Zhou
Tongji University
Building and Environment
0360-1323 (ISSN)
Vol. 142 502-512Subject Categories
Media and Communication Technology
Information Studies
Media Engineering
DOI
10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.06.022