1. What is Thermal Comfort?

2. Heat Balance

3. Prediction of Thermal Comfort

4. Influencing Factors

5. Environmental Indices

6. Local Thermal Discomfort

7. Measurements and Analysis

• CBE Thermal Comfort Tool (UC Berkeley): training videos https://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/
  
• Overview - CBE thermal comfort tool (1:20) https://youtu.be/ebEGeKAKa84
  
• Adaptive method ASHRAE 55 - CBE thermal comfort tool (2:23) https://youtu.be/56GDp2LHBjQ
  
• PMV ASHRAE 55 - CBE thermal comfort tool (5:19) https://youtu.be/5WkH2SN664k
  
• Local thermal discomfort - CBE thermal comfort tool (3:08) https://youtu.be/ykcJBW5Zdks
  
• Thermal Comfort in Buildings Explained - HVACR Design (11:04) https://youtu.be/yEWT_XmqCtQ

• Videos:
  
• 02 Thermal Comfort (6:41) https://youtu.be/BTdiimklSqo
  
• Standard and adaptive approach for thermal comfort (Federico Butera) (11:55) https://youtu.be/SwZ1FEgangE
  
• Indoor Climate and Thermal Comfort Assessment for ASHRAE 55 with CFD (33:22) https://youtu.be/wT3IMpPsJ6k
  
• What Is ASHRAE 55? Basics of Thermal Comfort https://www.simscale.com/blog/2019/08/what-is-ashrae-55-thermal-comfort/

• ASHRAE, 2017. ASHRAE Standard 55-2017: Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
• Auliciems, A. and Szokolay, S. V., 2002. Thermal Comfort, 2nd ed., Research, Consulting and Communications, Kangaroo Valley, NSW : 2002. [693.832 A92]
• [http://plea-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/PLEA-NOTE-3-THERMAL-COMFORT.pdf]
• Butera, F. M., 1998. Principles of thermal comfort, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, 2 (1-2): 39-66. [online journal]
• de Dear R. J., Akimoto T., Arens E. A., Brager G., Candido C., Cheong K. W. D., Li B., Nishihara N., Sekhar S. C., Tanabe S., Toftum J., Zhang H. & Zhu Y., 2013. Progress in thermal comfort research over the last twenty years, Indoor Air, 23 (6) 442-461. [HKU Library]
  
• Fanger, P. O.,1970. Thermal Comfort: Analysis and Applications in Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York. [697.9315 F2]
• Hui, C. M., 2005. Is 25.5 deg C comfortable?, article for “ROTOR” – the official publication of Engineering Society HKUSU, August (in Chinese). [PDF]
• ISO, 1995. ISO 7730: Moderate Thermal Environments – Determination of the PMV and PPD Indices and Specifications for Thermal Comfort, 2nd ed., International Organisation for Standardisation, Geneva, Switzerland. [IHSERC Specs & Standards]
• Nicol, F., Humphreys, M. and Roaf, S., 2012. Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice, Earthscan from Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon [England] and New York, NY. [697 N634 a22]
• Olesen, B. W, and Brager, G. S., 2004. A better way to predict comfort, ASHRAE Journal, 46 (8): 20-28. [online]

• INNOVA AirTech Instruments https://innova.lumasenseinc.com/
  
• Thermal Comfort (Saint-Gobain) https://multicomfort.saint-gobain.com/comforts-and-solutions/thermal-comfort
  
• Thermal comfort - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort
  
• Module 113: Determining thermal comfort in naturally conditioned buildings https://www.cibsejournal.com/cpd/modules/2017-07-nat/
• Examples of measurement instruments for thermal comfort https://www.deltaohm.com/en/measure/thermal-comfort/
  
• CBE Thermal Comfort Tool for ASHRAE-55 (UC Berkeley) https://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/
  
• Description https://cbe.berkeley.edu/research/thermal-comfort-tool/
  
• Docs http://centerforthebuiltenvironment.github.io/comfort_tool/
• Role of CFD in Evaluating Occupant Thermal Comfort https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/role-cfd-evaluating-occupant-thermal-comfort-sandip-jadhav/