Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Assessment of the Effects of Urban Heat Island on Buildings
Climate change and global warming have been indisputable as supported by mounting evidence of more extended, severe, and frequent occurrences of extreme weather events (EHEs), in particular, summertime heatwaves in recent years. EHEs often interact with buildings in urban area centers, which are densely packed by building blocks with vulnerable populations: the homeless, elderly, children, socially disadvantaged people, the physically challenged, or the sick, creating a unique natural phenomenon, urban heat island (UHI). This chapter covers a comprehensive effort to assess the UHI impacts on buildings and the potentially vulnerable populations through a series of surveys and field measurements in schools and hospitals, and a multi-scale climatic modeling framework from global and regional climates, urban microclimate, to building scale simulations. General methodologies are reported in detail for a better understanding of the levels of impacts by UHIs on buildings, e.g., excessively high indoor temperatures, energy demands and peak loads, and on people, e.g., indoor overheating risks. The effort is essential for developing measures and strategies to mitigate the UHI impacts on buildings and occupants for the current and future climates.
Assessment of the Effects of Urban Heat Island on Buildings
Climate change and global warming have been indisputable as supported by mounting evidence of more extended, severe, and frequent occurrences of extreme weather events (EHEs), in particular, summertime heatwaves in recent years. EHEs often interact with buildings in urban area centers, which are densely packed by building blocks with vulnerable populations: the homeless, elderly, children, socially disadvantaged people, the physically challenged, or the sick, creating a unique natural phenomenon, urban heat island (UHI). This chapter covers a comprehensive effort to assess the UHI impacts on buildings and the potentially vulnerable populations through a series of surveys and field measurements in schools and hospitals, and a multi-scale climatic modeling framework from global and regional climates, urban microclimate, to building scale simulations. General methodologies are reported in detail for a better understanding of the levels of impacts by UHIs on buildings, e.g., excessively high indoor temperatures, energy demands and peak loads, and on people, e.g., indoor overheating risks. The effort is essential for developing measures and strategies to mitigate the UHI impacts on buildings and occupants for the current and future climates.
Assessment of the Effects of Urban Heat Island on Buildings
Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
Enteria, Napoleon (Herausgeber:in) / Santamouris, Matteos (Herausgeber:in) / Eicker, Ursula (Herausgeber:in) / Shu, Chang (Autor:in)
15.12.2020
27 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Climate change , Urban heat island , Extreme heat event , Vulnerable , Survey , Field measurement , Overheating , Thermal comfort , Energy load , Mitigation , WRF , UHI , Microclimate , Weather forecasting , Multi-scale simulation , Digital twin , CFD , Urban building energy model Environment , Climate Change , Climate Change Management and Policy , Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning , Environmental Management , Sustainable Development , Earth and Environmental Science
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