The implications of a changing climate for buildings

P De Wilde, D Coley - Building and environment, 2012 - Elsevier
With a growing global concern about climate change, the building industry is facing the
question of how predicted changes in climate will impact on the performance of buildings …

The use of UKCP09 to produce weather files for building simulation

A Mylona - Building Services Engineering Research and …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Traditionally, hourly weather years such as the test reference years (TRYs) and design
summer years (DSYs) have been used for building energy and thermal performance …

Energy demand for the heating and cooling of residential houses in Finland in a changing climate

K Jylhä, J Jokisalo, K Ruosteenoja, K Pilli-Sihvola… - Energy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We assessed the energy demand of a typical detached house in Finland in the observed
recent and anticipated future climatic conditions. Hourly test reference weather data sets …

Seeing the landscape for the trees: Metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments

MF Johnson, RL Wilby - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rising water temperature (Tw) due to anthropogenic climate change may have serious
consequences for river ecosystems. Conservation and/or expansion of riparian shade could …

A comparison of future weather created from morphed observed weather and created by a weather generator

M Eames, T Kershaw, D Coley - Building and Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
To allow building scientists and engineers to investigate how their building designs fare in
future climates there is the need for future weather files on an hourly timescale, which are …

Comparative analysis of Passivhaus simulated and measured overheating frequency in a typical dwelling in Ireland

E Finegan, G Kelly, G O'Sullivan - Building Research & Information, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) simulations are crucial in balancing
a reduced space heat demand and reduced overheating in Passivhaus dwellings. This …

Climate impacts on flood and coastal erosion infrastructure

P Sayers, C Walsh, R Dawson - Infrastructure Asset …, 2015 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Climate change can affect the performance of flood and coastal erosion risk management
infrastructure (FCERMi) through a number of mechanisms. This review highlights that while …

Review on seaport and airport adaptation to climate change: a case on sea level rise and flooding

MCP Poo, Z Yang, D Dimitriu… - Marine Technology Society …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Seaports and airports are the critical nodes of international supply chains and thus stand on
the edge of social and economic disasters. They are often affected by extreme and rough …

Adaptable housing design for climate change adaptation

O Kinnane, T Grey, M Dyer - … of the Institution of Civil Engineers …, 2016 - icevirtuallibrary.com
It is predicted that climate change will result in rising sea levels, more frequent and extreme
weather events, hotter and drier summers and warmer and wetter winters. This will have a …

Generating design reference years from the UKCP09 projections and their application to future air-conditioning loads

H Du, CP Underwood, JS Edge - … Research and Technology, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
A method is developed to generate future design reference year (DRY) data from the United
Kingdom Climate Impact Programme's 2009 (UKCP09) climate change projections for a …