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Adaptive comfort assessments in urban neighbourhoods: Simulations of a residential case study from London

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Gunawardena, K 

Abstract

A warming climate, increasing frequency and severity of extreme heat events, and the heat island effect are cumulatively expected to exacerbate climate thermal loading on urban buildings. This in turn could lead to increased summertime overheating risk, with any active means for addressing this likely to influence future energy consumption and CO2 emission patterns. This paper examines how the microclimatic loading presented by the heat island (UHI) effect influences summertime adaptive comfort in traditional urban residential buildings.

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Keywords

Adaptive comfort, Residential overheating, Urban heat island effect, Space-conditioning, Cooling loads, Urban energy use

Journal Title

Energy and Buildings

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Journal ISSN

0378-7788
1872-6178

Volume Title

202

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Funding: this work was partly supported by the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust, University of Cambridge.