Resilient cooling strategies – A critical review and qualitative assessment
Journal article, 2021
The global effects of climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of extreme events such as heatwaves and power outages, which have consequences for buildings and their cooling systems. Buildings and their cooling systems should be designed and operated to be resilient under such events to protect occupants from potentially dangerous indoor thermal conditions. This study performed a critical review on the state-of-the-art of cooling strategies, with special attention to their performance under heatwaves and power outages. We proposed a definition of resilient cooling and described four criteria for resilience—absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity, restorative capacity, and recovery speed —and used them to qualitatively evaluate the resilience of each strategy. The literature review and qualitative analyses show that to attain resilient cooling, the four resilience criteria should be considered in the design phase of a building or during the planning of retrofits. The building and relevant cooling system characteristics should be considered simultaneously to withstand extreme events. A combination of strategies with different resilience capacities, such as a passive envelope strategy coupled with a low-energy space-cooling solution, may be needed to obtain resilient cooling. Finally, a further direction for a quantitative assessment approach has been pointed out.
Critical review
Climate change
Heatwave
Resilient
Qualitative analysis
Building cooling
Passive cooling
Active cooling
Low-energy cooling
Power outage
Author
Chen Zhang
Aalborg University
Ongun Berk Kazanci
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Ronnen Levinson
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Per Heiselberg
Aalborg University
Bjarne W. Olesen
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Giacomo Chiesa
Polytechnic University of Turin
Behzad Sodagar
University of Lincoln
Zhengtao Ai
Hunan University
Stephen Selkowitz
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michele Zinzi
Ente Per Le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente
Ardeshir Mahdavi
Vienna University of Technology
Helene Teufl
Vienna University of Technology
Maria Kolokotroni
Brunel University London
Agnese Salvati
Brunel University London
Emmanuel Bozonnet
La Rochelle University
Feryal Chtioui
La Rochelle University
Patrick Salagnac
La Rochelle University
Ramin Rahif
University of Liège
Shady Attia
University of Liège
Vincent Lemort
University of Liège
Essam Elnagar
University of Liège
Hilde Breesch
KU Leuven
Abantika Sengupta
KU Leuven
Liangzhu Leon Wang
Concordia University
Dahai Qi
Université de Sherbrooke
Philipp Stern
Institute of Building Research & Innovation
Nari Yoon
Korea University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dragos Ioan Bogatu
Polytechnic University of Turin
Ricardo Forgiarini Rupp
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Taha Arghand
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Services Engineering
Saqib Javed
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Services Engineering
Jan Akander
University of Gävle
Abolfazl Hayati
University of Gävle
Mathias Cehlin
University of Gävle
Sana Sayadi
University of Gävle
Sadegh Forghani
University of Gävle
Hui Zhang
University of California
Edward Arens
University of California
Guoqiang Zhang
Hunan University
Energy and Buildings
0378-7788 (ISSN)
Vol. 251 111312Subject Categories
Other Civil Engineering
Energy Systems
Building Technologies
DOI
10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111312