1. What is Thermal Comfort?

2. Thermal Environment and Heat Balance

3. Comfort Equation and Prediction

4. Influencing Factors

5. Environmental Indices

6. Local Thermal Discomfort

7. Thermal Comfort Measurements

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• Segmented thermal manikin to assess humand response to non-uniform environments (from UC Berkeley) [Photo1][Photo2]

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• ASHRAE, 1997. Thermal Comfort Tool [computer program], American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [AV 697.9315 T41]
• ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Tool (unzip the file and run "comfort.exe") [ZIP]
• Thermal Comfort Tool for ASHRAE-55 (UC Berkeley), http://cbe.berkeley.edu/comforttool/
• CBE Thermal Comfort Tool for ASHRAE 55 -- Overview (5:29) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3KXjUuKCAQ
• CBE Thermal Comfort Tool for ASHRAE 55 -- Adaptive method (3:35) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjIMuS-Q8w
• CBE Thermal Comfort Tool for ASHRAE 55 -- Local discomfort assessment (1:56) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV9m5lHQq44
• CBE Thermal Comfort Tool for ASHRAE 55 -- LEED documentation (3:21) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNNYRo3D4GA

• Thermal comfort -- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort
  
• Thermal Comfort - CLEAR (Comfort and Low Energy ARchitecture) [London Metropolian University] http://new-learn.info/learn/packages/clear/thermal/