Increased urban air temperatures due to urbanization affect the buildings' energy
performance and the outdoor thermal comfort. Aiming on the establishment of adaption …

Economic and social development of urban and rural areas continues in parallel with the
increase of the human population, especially in developing countries, which leads to …

Increasing awareness of the urban heat island (UHI) effect has raised attention about the
outdoor thermal comfort in cities worldwide. Several studies in the last decades have …

Over the past years the concern of the international scientific community towards the study of
the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon has been growing. Such issue is particularly …

This paper, while referring to a case study, focuses on the assessment of the input
parameters based on the equations solved by ENVI-met. The output data of different …

This paper focuses on the benefits on the local microclimate and the building energy saving
resulting from green roof retrofits. The research investigates a case study located in a …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the design of courtyards for the
microclimatic enhancement of outdoor spaces. However, there is still little knowledge …

Urban systems, from their early origins, were acknowledged to be responsible for both
benefits and penalties due to anthropogenic actions affecting human wellbeing. In this view …

Due to the severe effect of urban heat island (UHI), the street geometries, including the
orientation and aspect ratio, exert certain impacts on urban microclimates and outdoor …

Background Given the increasing trend of global warming and extreme weather conditions,
including heat waves and its effects on health, the present study was done to investigate …