## 2 Materials and Methods
### Enrichment of Thermal Comfort Parameters for Archetypal Zone Usage
#### 2.3.1 Enrichment of Activity Degree Parameters for Archetypal Zone Usage  
The existing TEASER templates already include archetypal data for different usage of thermal zones, including occupant activity degree data and occupant heat flow in W/person. These parameters are derived from values provided by the Swiss standard SIA 2024 [49], which provides data to calculate the energy demand of buildings in early building design stages. However, these available activity degrees are standardized (mostly either 1.2 met or 2.0 met) and do not reflect the expected variations in activity due to individual zone usage. Therefore, these parameters are unsuitable for evaluating zone-usage-based thermal comfort, as shown by a first comparison of the existing TEASER activity data with standards for thermal comfort analysis [26, 62]. There are several national and international standards for defining the activity degree of occupants. DIN EN ISO 8996 [63] provides data to accurately determine the metabolic rate in working environments. This standard also provides calculation methods to determine the metabolic rates for various activities, taking into account human conditions such as gender, age, and body weight. However, since we extend a template-based approach that provides approximate data to enrich archetypal zone setups, we require more generalized metabolic data at this stage. For this purpose, DIN EN ISO 8996 [63] categorizes metabolic rates in its Annex A, ranging from (0) Resting (100-125 W/person) to (4) Very high metabolic rate (>465 W/person). As these categories are broad, each covering a range of metabolic rates of about 100 W/person, we rely on other international standards and guidelines (i.e., ISO 7730 [26], ASHRAE Fundamentals [62]) for more specific metabolic data related to particular activities. ISO 7730 [26] provides metabolic rates and heat flows for different activities in Table 5 and Table 1. The ASHRAE Fundamentals [62] give a detailed introduction to thermal comfort analysis in Chapter 9, providing typical metabolic rates for an average adult person (person's body surface area \(A=1.8\,\mathrm{m}^{2}\)) in Table 4.  
Table 2 displays an excerpt of the activity values for the archetypal room types in the existing TEASER template (cf. Table A1 for full set of parameters for all zone types), along with the corresponding derived activity values obtained from ISO 7730 and ASHRAE Fundamentals. To make the data derivation process transparent, we list the activity types mapped to each room type from both sources (columns (4) and (5)) and their related individual metabolic rates. The metabolic rates from ISO 7730 and ASHRAE Fundamentals show only minor deviations (mostly \(0-0.2\,\mathrm{met}\)), although the matched activities vary due to differences in specifications. The newly derived (and combined) activity degree is calculated as the mean of columns (6) and (7), rounded up to the nearest decimal place. This value is rounded up because a higher activity degree results in higher cooling loads and an increased risk of occupant overheating during summer. On the basis of this combined activity degree, the heat flow (\(W\)/person) is displayed in column (10), calculated with \(1\,\mathrm{met}=58.1\,\mathrm{m}^{2}\) and the average adult surface area of \(A=1.8\,\mathrm{m}^{2}\)[62]. Columns (9) and (11) show the absolute difference to the original activity parameters from the TEASER Templates given in columns (2) and (3), respectively. While some of the metabolic rates correspond to the previous TEASER values, the new values for the heat flow per person greatly exceed the previous values (mostly between 79 and 169 %, referring to the full parameter set in Table A1). Updating the activity data in the TEASER Templates is necessary for thermal comfort analysis, as they show high deviations from the metabolic rates reported in existing thermal comfort standards.