Research progress and perspective of thermal comfort

Thermal comfort research is a hot research topic in recent years. Creating a comfortable building environment can not only improve the level of human comfort and health, but also reduce building energy consumption. This paper reviews the development history of thermal comfort research, and presents one of the application forms of its achievements—thermal comfort standards. This paper elaborates on the problems and challenges in thermal comfort research in China, and summarizes the progress made in thermal comfort research from the theoretical research and the application of the results. The main achievements in thermal comfort database, dynamic thermal environment, non-uniform environment, comfort and health, and work efficiency are listed, and the future research directions are envisioned.