The standard mandates design requirements for minimum thermal comfort performance and prescribes compliance for progressive comfort performance. The standard provides a user-friendly bundle approach to reduce the burden of compliance as well.
The action plan extends the vision of Housing for all to Thermal Comfortable Homes for All. The action plan provides not only a long-term roadmap for achieving this vision, but also short-term priority actions.
The design guidelines provide a fundamental understanding of thermal comfort and how to integrate passive design principles and low energy systems to meet thermal comfort expectations in homes.