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Overheating Risk Analysis in Long-Term Care Homes—Development of Overheating Limit Criteria
Buildings, 2023 Climate heat waves occurring in urban centers are a serious threat to public health and wellbeing. Historically, most heat-related mortalities have arisen from excessive overheating of building interiors housing older occupants.
Abdelaziz Laouadi +4 more
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Thermal variations and urban compactness: developing UHI indices using remote sensing [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAmid growing concerns about climate change, interactions between the urban thermal environment and urban structure have garnered significant attention from researchers and policymakers.
Alicja Antochów +2 more
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A self-regulated photothermal anti-/deicing film for all-season applications [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsIce accumulation poses a significant threat to aviation safety and energy infrastructure. Photothermal superhydrophobic surfaces offer a promising anti-/deicing strategy; however, their excessive heat absorption in summer accelerates material degradation
Jiayu Du +9 more
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Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research, 2023 This paper reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of the urban heat island (UHI) effect on building space conditioning for vulnerable housing where lack of air conditioning and fuel poverty causes indoor overheating,
Debanjali Banerjee
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City and Environment Interactions, 2023 To assess the spatial heat resilience of buildings in urban development we test the suitability of a toolchain approach from microscale meteorological simulations, resolving the spatial influences on local urban climate, to building performance ...
Christoph Schünemann +2 more
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A Quantitative Morphological Method for Mapping Local Climate Types
Urban Planning, 2021 Morphological characteristics of cities significantly influence urban heat island intensities and thermal responses to heat waves. Form attributes such as density, compactness, and vegetation cover are commonly used to analyse the impact of urban ...
Daniela Maiullari +2 more
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Buildings, 2021 The aims of the paper were to clarify whether office buildings in the severe cold and cold regions are overheating, especially those with natural ventilation, and whether potential overheating is related to the building materials.
Yu Dong +4 more
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Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life
Earth's Future, 2021 Abstract Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major contemporary challenge that substantially impacts urban livability and sustainability. Overheating represents a multifaceted threat to the well‐being, performance, and health of individuals as well as the energy efficiency and economy of ...
N. Nazarian +16 more
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Development and appraisal of long-term adaptation pathways for managing heat-risk in London
Climate Risk Management, 2017 The risk of residential overheating and mortality is increasing due to the effects of global warming and the urban heat island effect and needs to be addressed through climate change adaptation.
Ashley Kingsborough +2 more
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Smart heat-health action plans: A programmatic, progressive and dynamic framework to address urban overheating [PDF]
Geographica PannonicaCities stand at the focal point of vulnerability to heat waves (HWs) as they threaten urban livability and sustainability. National, regional, and local heat-health action plans (HHAPs) are vital for combating HWs and are increasingly crucial as ...
Ghosh Aveek
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