I am working on a study that needs to assess thermal comfort at the interior spaces of buildings as well as their surrounding urban space. As far as I know, Envi-met is the most suitable software for this goal, while most simulation tools analyze thermal comfort particularly on indoor or outdoor spaces. I was wondering if there's any tool that simultaneously analyzes thermal comfort in both types of space.
Hi Yalda Shoohanizad , you may want to check the CIBSE TM52 Adaptive model. It basically summarized the findings from Fergus Nicol about indoor/outdoor thermal comfort relationship in a model assessing three different criteria. All the best in your research
https://www.cibse.org/Knowledge/knowledge-items/detail?id=a0q20000008I7f5AAC
To the extent of my knowledge, there is not a single tool or common workflow for this purpose, but you can build up your own workflow with a custom Rhino>Grasshopper algorithm using Dragonfly(probably the legacy version for the ENVI-MET calculations) and Honeybee, both from https://Ladybug.tools.
I recommend you to start building this workflow and/or ask your questions on https://discourse.ladybug.tools. there are main developers as well as professional users from both sides (indoor/outdoor) who can help you with the technical issues of this interesting project of yours.
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