香港是一个人口密集的城市，服务业占主导地位。严重的室外噪音污染和亚热带气候严重限制了办公场所自然通风的机会。空间冷却的高能耗和改善室内热舒适条件的需求刺激了香港办公场所的热舒适状况的大规模调查。研究发现，中性温度和首选温度低于热带地区其他研究中发现的温度，60%的受调查者更喜欢在夏季改变热条件。结果提供了一个更好的热舒适性概念，可以将其应用于设计标准。这些结果也加重了人们对ASHRAE标准55中传统室内试验数据有效性的担忧- 它进一步提出了采用热舒适自适应控制算法的可能性。单位:SICitation:研讨会，ASHRAE交易，1998年，第104卷，pt。1A，旧金山

Hong Kong is a densely populated city in which the service sector dominates. The significant outdoor noise pollution and subtropical climate severely restrict the opportunity for office premises to be naturally ventilated. The high energy consumption for space cooling and the demand for improved indoor thermal comfort conditions stimulated a large-scale survey of thermal comfort conditions in Hong Kong office premises. The neutral temperatures and preferred temperatures are found to be lower than those found in other studies in the tropics, with 60% of the surveyed subjects preferring a change of the thermal conditions in summer. The outcome provides for a better notion of thermal comfort, which can be imposed on design criteria. The results also add weight to the concern about the validity in the field of the traditional chamber test data presented by ASHRAE Standard 55-1992. It further suggests the potential for adopting an adaptive control algorithm for thermal comfort.Units: SI