COLLECTiEF dataset: A high-resolution indoor environmental dataset from European buildings across diverse climates supporting thermal, air-quality, and visual-comfort assessments
Indoor Environmental Quality directly affects public health, productivity, and well-being, while also playing a vital role in developing climate-neutral, energy-efficient, and resilient buildings. This paper presents a comprehensive dataset of indoor environmental parameters that affect thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and visual comfort, which was created under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Project <i>Collective Intelligence for Energy Flexibility</i>. The dataset comprises high-resolution measurements of carbon dioxide, pollutants, volatile organic compounds, air temperature, relative humidity, and illuminance on a horizontal plane, collected over a two-year period at 1-minute intervals. Data were gathered from 14 pilot buildings across four European climates: Cyprus, France, Italy, and Norway, covering diverse building types such as schools, medical centres, sports arenas, residential complexes, universities, and elder care facilities, representing about 40 % of common European building categories. Sensors were installed in specific thermal zones within each building to monitor environmental conditions. All data is organized by building and zone and supplemented with standardized Brick metadata to ensure interoperability. This comprehensive dataset, with its broad geographic coverage, variety of building types, long-term high-frequency measurements, and multimodal data, provides a valuable resource for comparative IEQ research, cross-domain modelling, and integrated assessments of comfort, ventilation, and daylighting across different climates and operational settings and is available upon request under a non-disclosure agreement provided by the consortium.
Authors
- Silvia Erba
- Muhammad Salman Shahid
- Mohammadreza Aghaei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5735-3825)
- Panayiotis Papadopoulos
- Stefano Cera
- Per Martin Leinan
- G. Tresoldi
- Salvatore Carlucci
- Antonio Luparelli
- Runar Solli
- Italo Aldo Campodonico-Avendano
- Amedeo Ingrosso
- Peter Riederer
- Benoit Delinchant
- Amin Moazami
- Frederic Wurtz
Institutions
- Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (FR)
- University of Insubria (IT)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- SAES Group (Italy) (IT)
- Cyprus Institute (CY)
- SINTEF (NO)
- Tethys Research Institute (IT)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (FR)
- Ålesund Hospital (NO)
- Norwegian Institute of Emotion-focused Therapy (NO)
- Materials Technologies (United States) (US)
- SINTEF Community
- Université Grenoble Alpes (FR)
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Data in Brief
- Published
- 2026-01-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.112486
- Primary Topic
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00