Thermal comfort investigation of rural houses in China: A review

Researchers have conducted extensive research on the thermal environments of rural houses worldwide. The greatest number studies comfort in areas been China. However, no reviewed or summarised literature. This paper summarises literature from three perspectives: climate zones, approach, and other factors (wind speed, humidity, building construction) that influence comfort. commenced by categorising examining all relevant papers based climatic approaches to find commonalities differences. limits existing standards were then inspected. Finally, suggestions for further provided. Our conclusion was temperature is influenced various factors. Further older adults required, especially areas. Adaptive Thermal Comfort model more suitable housing than Rational model. Large-scale are required establish specific standards. Wind speed humidity two aspects require