Urban heat island effects are already known for decades to result in increased urban
outdoor temperatures as compared to the surrounding countryside. At the same time, recent …

Recent years have witnessed growing concern about climate change's impact upon office
buildings' performance in regard to energy consumption and indoor thermal comfort. A …

As a consequence of global climate change, a vicious circle of raising outdoor temperatures
and consequently increasing CO 2 emissions associated with raising energy demands for …

Indoor climatic conditions are strongly influenced by outdoor meteorological conditions. It is
thus expected that the combined effect of climate change and the urban heat island effect …

This paper aims to quantify and analyse the impact of urban heat island and climate change
on summer indoor thermal comfort in buildings at district level. By leveraging the models of …

The concept of implementing energy savings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has
become a key element of energy policies of any industrialized country. In the civil sector and …

Urban settings and climate change both impact on energy use and thermal comfort inside
buildings. This paper first presents a study of changes in energy demand in residential …

This study assesses the impacts of sustainable urban development adapted to climate
change in the city of Stuttgart, Germany. We use the state-of-the-art meteorological …

This article presents key energy use figures and explores the energy saving potentials in
office buildings across Europe by simulating several currently available scenarios. The …

Climate change is considered an important global threat, with a significant impact on the
energy performance, since buildings will be subjected to higher average outdoor …