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Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes for thermal (dis-)comfort is crucial for design and operation of any type of building. The assessment of human thermal perception through rating scales, for example in post-occupancy studies, has been applied for several decades; however, long-existing assumptions related to these rating scales had been questioned by several researchers. The aim of this study was to gain deeper knowledge on contextual influences on the interpretation of thermal perception scales and their verbal anchors by survey participants. A questionnaire was designed and consequently applied in 21 language versions. These surveys were conducted in 57 cities in 30 countries resulting in a dataset containing responses from 8225 participants. The database offers potential for further analysis in the areas of building design and operation, psycho-physical relationships between human perception and the built environment, and linguistic analyses.

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Penerapan bambu sebagai material bangunan yang ramah lingkungan, ekonomis dan berkelanjutan telah berlangsung sejak dahulu, namun kualitas bangunan yang menggunakan material bambu ini masih menjadi pertimbangan masyarakat dalam pemanfaatannya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan penilaian masyarakat terhadap penggunaan material bambu pada bangunan, seberapa besar potensi bambu sebagai material terbarukan pengganti kayu. Metode penelitian kualitatif-eksploratif dipilih dengan tujuan mendapatkan penilaian masyarakat yang beragam mengenai penggunaan material bambu. Data yang diperoleh menggunakan metode pengumpulan data secara bebas (open ended) melalui kuesioner online yang kemudian diolah menggunakan metode open-coding dan axial-coding. Dari hasil penelitian didapat penilaian masyarakat yang baik terhadap kualitas bangunan dengan penggunaan material bambu. Potensi material bambu dapat dilihat dari minat masyarakat dalam penerapan bambu dari segi struktural, arsitektural dan interior.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.