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Towards an overheating risk tool for building design [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose – The work set out to design and develop an overheating risk tool using the UKCP09 climate projections that is compatible with building performance simulation software. The aim of the tool is to exploit the Weather Generator and give a reasonably
Menzies, Gillian Frances +5 more
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London's urban heat island: Impact on current and future energy consumption in office buildings [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents the results of a computational study on the energy consumption and related CO2 emissions for heating and cooling of an office building within the Urban Heat Island of London, currently and in the future.
Kolokotroni, M +7 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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Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life
Earth's Future, 2021 Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major contemporary challenge which substantially impacts urban livability and sustainability. Overheating represents a multi-faceted threat to well-being, performance, and health of individuals as well as the energy efficiency and economy of cities, and it is influenced by ...
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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Optimizing trees distances in urban streets for insolation mitigation [PDF]
Geographica Pannonica, 2019 Mitigation of overheating in streets is an important task for urban planners and architects. Urban surfaces in streets, such as footways and façades, can contribute to increase overheating in cities, whereas the trees can help to decrease insolation.
Bajsanski Ivana +2 more
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Introducing an Optimal Model and Dimensions of Lightweight Membrane Canopy for Hot and Dry Climate of City of Semnan in Iran [PDF]
Renewable Energy Research and Applications, 2021 In urban open spaces, especially in large cities with warm climates, users are experiencing high thermal loads, which causes thermal discomfort. Thermal comfort in open spaces can be improved; by shading. The problem is shading and protecting open spaces
S. Jafarian +3 more
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The Urban Sun Belt: An Overview
, 2020 This paper focuses on the 22 metropolitan statistical areas in the Sun Belt with a population of 1 million people or more. Together, they accounted for almost half of all population growth in the entire United States between 2010 and 2016.
Hazle, Shelly G. +3 more
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City and Environment InteractionsAs summer heat events cause a further increase of heat load in buildings, the need for indoor overheating assessment by building performance simulations (BPS) for planning is rising. Besides other boundary conditions, the selection of proper weather data
Tim Felix Kriesten +3 more
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Persistent Luminescence of doped SrAl2O4:Eu2+, Dy3+ formulated in polymer matrices is a promising solution to be integrated in building envelopes for enhancing Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling. ABSTRACT Persistent Luminescent (PersL) materials have found applications in several fields; their integration into passive daytime radiative cooling systems ...
Roberto Bondi +5 more
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