Assessing the climate change adaptation over four European cities
Paper in proceeding, 2021

In recent years, climate change has been widely recognized as a potential problem. The building industry is taking a variety of actions towards sustainable development and climate change mitigation, such as retrofitting buildings. More than mitigation, it is important to account for climate change adaptation and investigate the probable risks and limits for mitigation strategies. For example, one major challenge may become achieving low energy demand without compromising indoor thermal comfort during warm seasons. This work investigates the future energy performance and indoor thermal comfort of four European cities belonging to four different climate zones in Europe; Barcelona, Koln, Brussels, and Copenhagen. An ensemble of future climate scenarios is used, including thirteen climate scenarios considering five different general circulation models (GCM) and three representative concentration pathways (RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). Through simulating the energy performance of the representative buildings in each city and considering several climate scenarios, this paper provides a comprehensive picture about the energy performance and indoor thermal comfort of the buildings for near-term, medium-term, and long-term climate conditions.

Author

Yuchen Yang

Lund University

Vahid Nik

Lund University

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

17426588 (ISSN) 17426596 (eISSN)

Vol. 2069 1 012069

8th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2021
Copenhagen, Virtual, Denmark,

Subject Categories

Energy Systems

Building Technologies

Climate Research

DOI

10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012069

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