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Elisabeth Fassbender, Josef Rott and Claudia Hemmerle
Cities face the consequences of climate change, specifically the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which detrimentally affects human health. In this regard, deploying PV modules in urban locales prompts inquiry into the impact of energy-active building com...
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Tianyu Xi, Ming Wang, Enjia Cao, Jin Li, Yong Wang and Salanke Umar Sa?ad
The thermal comfort evaluation of the urban environment arouses widespread concern among scholars, and research in this field is mostly based on thermal comfort evaluation indexes such as PMV, PET, SET, UTCI, etc. These thermal comfort index evaluation m...
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Yuyan Wang, Xi Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Hao Zhang, Bo Xiong and Xuepeng Shi
Population growth and urban expansion have led to increased demand for buildings. Optimizing the building façade design, using integrated photovoltaic (PV) shading and vertical farming (VF) can reduce building energy consumption while ensuring a partial ...
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Tongye Guo, Yang Zhao, Jiahao Yang, Zhengnan Zhong, Kefu Ji, Ziyu Zhong and Xinyi Luo
Hot-humid areas have long, hot summers and poor outdoor thermal comfort (OTC). The urban heat island (UHI) effect exacerbates the deterioration of OTC in hot-humid areas, seriously affecting the thermal safety of children?s outdoor activities. In this st...
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Neshat Rahmani and Ayyoob Sharifi
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system is used in this study to analyze the impacts of urban morphology on a surface urban heat island (SUHI). Our study involved a comparative analysis of SUHI effects in two Japanese cities, Sapporo and Hiros...
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Carlos Zepeda-Gil and Augusto Jacobo Montiel-Castro
Despite being perceived as a warm country, winters in the Central Mexican Plateau frequently reach temperatures below zero Celsius. Prolonged exposures to low temperatures resulting in heart and respiratory morbidities are estimated to be responsible for...
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Xiaozhou Wu, Hao Gao, Mingming Zhao, Jie Gao, Zhen Tian and Xiangli Li
A ceiling cooling system integrated with a mechanical ventilation system has been widely used in modern buildings with large sensible cooling loads due to the high thermal comfort level and large energy efficiency. However, there is a lack of systematic ...
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Eusébio Conceição, João Gomes, Maria Manuela Lúcio and Hazim Awbi
This paper presents an application of energy production in a solar Double Skin Facade (DSF) used in a Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system for a ceiling-mounted localized air distribution systems in a virtual classroom. In this numeric...
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Xiaoxiao Rao, Feng Qi, Xiaoxiao Zhang and Zhuoxun Mao
Traditional wooden dwellings, which are widely distributed with enormous stocks in China, are of great historical and have obvious cultural value. The walls of such buildings are generally subjected to poor thermal insulation performance, which not only ...
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Serena Falasca, Annalisa Di Bernardino, Virgilio Ciancio, Gabriele Curci and Ferdinando Salata
The thermo-hygrometric sensation of pedestrians in outdoor environments can be quantified by means of bioclimatic indices. In this work, the Mediterranean Outdoor Thermal Comfort Index (MOCI) is applied in the city of Rome (Italy) for the purpose of inve...
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