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Waseda University & Mitsubishi Electric Spearhead Global Cooperation on Future Thermal Comfort Index

Waseda University released a statement to say that it has reached a collaborative research agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Sydney to create a new "thermal comfort index" which will better predict how people feel indoors. The project is more than just traditional indoor climate control methods. The aim is to go beyond the long-established PMV standard and develop an index capable of capturing varied individual thermal feelings — hot or cold — instead of depending on an average. The four institutions will cooperate through merging skills in environmental control systems, building science, sensor information, human behavioural science and control technology. Mitsubishi Electric will be responsible for demonstration planning and offering test environments, such as the Zero Energy Building (ZEB)-related technology…