Urban microclimate and its impact on built environment–a review

S Yang, LL Wang, T Stathopoulos, AM Marey - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing urbanization and population growth have brought attention to urban
microclimates in recent years. The study on urban microclimate and its impact on the built …

A review of simplified numerical approaches for fast urban airflow simulation

X Xu, Z Gao, M Zhang - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
As the urban area under study continues to expand, the high computational cost of urban
wind and thermal environments simulation is becoming a major challenge for researchers …

Times series forecasting for urban building energy consumption based on graph convolutional network

Y Hu, X Cheng, S Wang, J Chen, T Zhao, E Dai - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The world is increasingly urbanizing, and to improve urban sustainability, many cities adopt
ambitious energy-saving strategies through retrofitting existing buildings and constructing …

Impact of urban wind environment on urban building energy: A review of mechanisms and modeling

P Jie, M Su, N Gao, Y Ye, X Kuang, J Chen, P Li… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the context of global warming, improving energy-use efficiency is an important research
topic in the fields of green buildings and eco-cities. There is an indivisible coupling …

A street-scale simulation model for the cooling performance of urban greenery: Evidence from a high-density city

J Huang, T Hao, Y Wang, P Jones - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
How much can greenery cool a city remains inconclusive in literature, especially in a high-
density city where plants interact with anthropogenic heat from surrounding buildings and …

Optimizing energy efficiency through building orientation and building information modelling (BIM) in diverse terrains: a case study in Pakistan

AM Khan, MA Tariq, Z Alam, WS Alaloul, A Waqar - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Building orientation plays a key role in enhancing the built environment's energy efficiency
through the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and energy simulation. Due …

Correlating the urban microclimate and energy demands in hot climate Contexts: A hybrid review

NM Waly, H Hassan, R Murata, DJ Sailor… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Through demand for heating and cooling, local climate can affect the energy loads of
buildings by up to 80%. The main research limitation in this field of research is the single …

Improved energy performance evaluating and ranking approach for office buildings using Simple-normalization, Entropy-based TOPSIS and K-means method

F Sun, J Yu - Energy Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Reasonable evaluation of building energy performance can provide great benefit for
government (policy makers) to put forward effective energy conservation policies, and …

[HTML][HTML] How do street trees affect urban temperatures and radiation exchange? Observations and numerical evaluation in a highly compact city

R Segura, ES Krayenhoff, A Martilli, A Badia, C Estruch… - Urban climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Street trees are an important driver of street microclimate through shading and transpirative
cooling, which are key mechanisms for improving thermal comfort in urban areas. Urban …

Estimating cooling loads of Arizona State University buildings using microclimate data and machine learning

A Alyakoob, S Hartono, T Johnson, A Middel - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
In hot arid urban climates, building cooling equipment consumes the greatest share of
energy out of all building end-use equipment. For existing buildings, dynamic system-based …