Tables 2 and 3 summarize some of the selected previous studies of thermal comfort and ventilation carried out in the hot and humid climate of Malaysia. In these studies, the metabolic rate was set to be 1.2 met, which is for sedentary activities; whereas the Clo-value was set to be 0.5 where the males were wearing underpants, short-sleeved shirts, light trousers, light socks and shoes. The females were wearing cotton or silk ‘baju kurongs’ (Fig. 6), light cotton undergarments and lightweight scarves [92–
100].