The urban climate and outdoor air quality of cities that have a positive thermal balance
depending on the thermal consumptions of buildings cause an increase of the urban heat …

Today 54% of the world's population resides in urban areas and in 2050 the projections are
for 66%. Therefore, the issue of city sustainability becomes increasingly important. This …

Abstract Urban Building Energy Models are powerful tools for estimating future states of
energy consumption and energy generation in buildings. Due to the complexity of these …

Urban areas usually experience higher temperatures when compared to their rural
surroundings. Several studies underlined that specific urban conditions are strictly …

Climatic conditions strongly affect the energy performance of buildings, and due to the
synergy between global climate change and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, the climatic …

A wide variety of weather-data are readily available for simulating buildings energy
performance by using dynamic software. However, climate change and its effects on …

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 energy consumptions growth has become an urgent topic that requires solutions for
significantly reduce carbon emission in the next decades. This paper aims in exploring the …

Buildings' energy systems release heat to the atmosphere that contributes to the urban heat
island. In return, the energy demand from buildings depends on the meteorological …

In the last decade a lot of research effort has been spent on identifying the effect of the urban
climate on the energy performance of buildings and HVAC (heating ventilation and air …