Building resilience to overheating into 1960's UK hospital buildings within the constraint of the national carbon reduction target: Adaptive strategies

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Building resilience to overheating into 1960's UK hospital buildings within the constraint of the national carbon reduction target: Adaptive strategies

C. A. Short¹, Kevin J. Lomas², Renganathan Giridharan², A.J. Fair¹•Institutions (2)

University of Cambridge¹, Loughborough University²

01 Sep 2012-Building and Environment (Elsevier)-Vol. 55, Iss: 3, pp 73-95

TL;DR: In this article, the design and delivery of robust hospital environments in a changing climate has been investigated, where the authors use dynamic thermal models calibrated against measured data to understand the environmental performance of the current NHS Estate and to establish its resilience.

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About: This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2012-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 77 citations till now.

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The implications of a changing climate for buildings

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Pieter de Wilde¹, David Coley²•Institutions (2)

University of Plymouth¹, University of Bath²

01 Sep 2012-Building and Environment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between climate change and buildings and the emerging body of knowledge on the subject, as well as classifying and summarizing the contributions to this special issue.

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Thermal comfort standards, measured internal temperatures and thermal resilience to climate change of free-running buildings: A case-study of hospital wards

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Kevin J. Lomas¹, Renganathan Giridharan¹•Institutions (1)

Loughborough University¹

01 Sep 2012-Building and Environment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on internal temperatures during the day and at night in wards within the tower building at Addenbrooke's hospital, which has a hybrid ventilation strategy.

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149 citations

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Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems

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Sarah Curtis¹, Alistair Fair², Jonathan Wistow¹, Dimitri V. Val², Katie Oven¹ - Show less +1 more•Institutions (2)

Durham University¹, University of Edinburgh²

05 Dec 2017-Environmental Health

TL;DR: This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental Change programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care systems in the United Kingdom of extreme weather events, under conditions of climate change.

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Abstract: This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care systems in the United Kingdom of extreme weather events, under conditions of climate change. Extreme weather events considered include heatwaves, coldwaves and flooding. Using a structured review method, we consider evidence regarding the currently observed and anticipated future impacts of extreme weather on health and social care systems and the potential of preparedness and adaptation measures that may enhance resilience. We highlight a number of general conclusions which are likely to be of international relevance, although the review focussed on the situation in the UK. Extreme weather events impact the operation of health services through the effects on built, social and institutional infrastructures which support health and health care, and also because of changes in service demand as extreme weather impacts on human health. Strategic planning for extreme weather and impacts on the care system should be sensitive to within country variations. Adaptation will require changes to built infrastructure systems (including transport and utilities as well as individual care facilities) and also to institutional and social infrastructure supporting the health care system. Care sector organisations, communities and individuals need to adapt their practices to improve resilience of health and health care to extreme weather. Preparedness and emergency response strategies call for action extending beyond the emergency response services, to include health and social care providers more generally.

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96 citations

Cites background from "Building resilience to overheating ..."

...However, increased use of mechanical cooling would undermine the NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy and contravene the Climate Change Act [21, 22]....
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...Modern or temporary buildings may perform worse in terms of thermal regulation than older buildings [22, 28, 21, 29]....
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...Options for lowenergy refurbishment of existing, 1960s hospital buildings could halve their energy use [22]....
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...Refurbishment of existing hospital buildings could improve thermal comfort [21, 22] and solar shading options may help to reduce internal temperatures....
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Dynamic energy performance analysis: Case study for energy efficiency retrofits of hospital buildings

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Annamaria Buonomano¹, Francesco Calise¹, Gabriele Ferruzzi¹, Adolfo Palombo¹•Institutions (1)

University of Naples Federico II¹

15 Dec 2014-Energy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an investigation methodology, useful for designers and other stakeholders involved in hospital energy refurbishments, based on an integrated approach which combines dynamic energy performance simulations and experimental campaigns.

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Natural ventilation in warm climates: The challenges of thermal comfort, heatwave resilience and indoor air quality

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Tariq Ahmed¹, Prashant Kumar², Laetitia Mottet³•Institutions (3)

University of Cambridge¹, University of Surrey², Royal School of Mines³

01 Mar 2021-Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors looked at the ability of natural ventilation to provide adequate thermal comfort, resilience against heatwaves, and good indoor air quality in warm climates and found that single-sided ventilation demonstrates the poorest ability to provide thermal comfort while cross ventilation highlights better performance in terms of reducing indoor air temperatures compared to outdoor.

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Abstract: In buildings, energy is primarily consumed by mechanical air conditioning systems. Low energy alternatives, such as natural ventilation, are needed. However, they need to be able to cope with increasing heatwaves and pollution, particularly in warm climates. This review paper looked at the ability of natural ventilation to provide adequate thermal comfort, resilience against heatwaves, and good Indoor Air Quality in warm climates. Single-sided ventilation demonstrates the poorest ability to provide thermal comfort, while cross ventilation highlights better performance in terms of reducing indoor air temperatures compared to outdoor. However, windcatchers and solar chimneys displayed even better performance by producing relatively high ventilation rates. During heatwaves and future climatic scenarios, natural ventilation, by cross-ventilation, was not able to meet internal thermal comfort standards. A potential low energy solution could be combining solar chimneys or windcatchers with water evaporation cooling. A critical synthesis of the literature suggests that these systems can generate high ventilation rates and keep indoor temperatures around 8 °C cooler than outdoor temperatures in warm weather (>35 °C). However, no studies were found testing these systems against future climate scenarios, and further studies are recommended. The literature supported natural ventilation being effective in removing pollution generated indoors due to adequate ventilation rates. However, using unfiltered natural ventilation for areas with high outdoor pollution can increase the indoor deposition of harmful particulate matter. With increasing air pollution, further studies are urgently required to investigate filter enabled natural ventilation, particularly with solar chimney/windcatcher incorporated.

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UK Climate Projections science report: Projections of future daily climate for the UK from the Weather Generator

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Philip Jones, Chris Kilsby, C. Harpham, Glenis, A. Burton - Show less +1 more

01 Jan 2009

TL;DR: In this article, the UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) Weather Generator (WG) is introduced and the needs and principles and how it can be used to assess changes in extremes at spatial and temporal scales finer than the UKCP09 probability distribution functions (PDFs).

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Abstract: In this report the UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) Weather Generator (WG) is introduced. This report covers the needs and principles and how it can be used to assess changes in extremes at spatial and temporal scales finer than the UKCP09 probability distribution functions (PDFs) can provide. Further, an illustration in the way the WG is perturbed to account for future climate change works and some illustrative maps of changes in extremes across the UK are also provided

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...[28] using the UKCP09 weather generator [31] assuming the global A1B emissions scenario as described in the IPCC Special report on Emissions Scenarios (i....
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On the creation of future probabilistic design weather years from UKCP09

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Matthew E. Eames¹, Tristan Kershaw¹, David Coley¹•Institutions (1)

University of Exeter¹

01 May 2011-Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

TL;DR: In this article, a method for the creation of future probabilistic reference years for use within thermal models is discussed, and a comparison is made with the current set of future weather years based on the UKCIP.

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Abstract: Weather data are used extensively by building scientists and engineers to study the performance of their designs, help compare design alternatives and ensure compliance with building regulations. Given a changing climate, there is a need to provide data for future years so that practising engineers can investigate the impact of climate change on particular designs and examine any risk the commissioning client might be exposed to. In addition, such files are of use to building scientists in developing generic solutions to problems such as elevated internal temperatures and poor thermal comfort. With the publication of the UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) such data can be created for future years up to 2080 and for various probabilistic projections of climate change by the use of a weather generator. Here, we discuss a method for the creation of future probabilistic reference years for use within thermal models. In addition, a comparison is made with the current set of future weather years based on the UKCIP...

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"Building resilience to overheating ..." refers methods in this paper

...For each option the predicted annual energy demands and CO2 emissions of one ward, the refurbished multibed ward 6MB7, were predicted using IES and the Bedford 2010 weather [28] and compared with the NHS and TM46 benchmarks (Figs....
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...[28] using the UKCP09 weather generator [31] assuming the global A1B emissions scenario as described in the IPCC Special report on Emissions Scenarios (i....
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Thermal comfort standards, measured internal temperatures and thermal resilience to climate change of free-running buildings: A case-study of hospital wards

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Kevin J. Lomas¹, Renganathan Giridharan¹•Institutions (1)

Loughborough University¹

01 Sep 2012-Building and Environment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on internal temperatures during the day and at night in wards within the tower building at Addenbrooke's hospital, which has a hybrid ventilation strategy.

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149 citations

"Building resilience to overheating ..." refers background or methods in this paper

...The procedure for creating the weather data has been described in detail elsewhere [16] so is described in brief here....
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...Initial results from this work have been reported for a 46-day (1104 h) period, 1 July to 15 August 2010, by Lomas and Giridharan [16]....
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...The model devised was used in conjunction with weather data for 2010 taken at Bedford [16] to predict the annual overheating risk and the annual energy demands for the existing ward....
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...10 For example [16], shows that the nurses’ stations in the core of the Tower substantially overheat....
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...The strategies sought also to improve the internal environment in the wards and other spaces,10 and in this regard the features that are considered in the BREEAMHealthcare 2008 scheme [27] are pertinent, not least because Trusts are increasingly 8 Lomas and Giridharan [16] examined the potential for patient operated internal ceiling fans to improve summertime temperature conditions, but this measure would not impact on the energy use and CO2 emissions....
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Resilience of naturally ventilated buildings to climate change: advanced natural ventilation and hospital wards

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Kevin J. Lomas¹, Yingchun Ji²•Institutions (2)

Loughborough University¹, De Montfort University²

01 Jun 2009-Energy and Buildings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of single-sided natural ventilation (SNV) and edge in, edge out (EINE) with a form of EINE for various UK locations and found that the spaces conditioned using the ANV strategy were more resilient to increases in both internal heat gains and climatic warming.

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"Building resilience to overheating ..." refers background or result in this paper

...Individuals sensitive to high temperatures are likely to be present at all times in hospitals, including those with compromised thermoregulatory systems (the elderly, the chronically and severely ill, those on certain medications that impair perspiration) as well as those who cannot take action in the face of high temperatures (small children, the bed-bound, patients with mental illnesses) [10]....
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...These results concur with those reported earlier for stack ventilated buildings outside the London environs [10]....
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...There are few examples of innovative natural ventilation/passive cooling strategies being used in hospital buildings, although recent research suggests that 70% of an acute hospital could be naturally ventilated while notional propositions for such strategies have been made [10,12]....
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Analyses and algorithms for new Test Reference Years and Design Summer Years for the UK

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Geoff Levermore, J. B. Parkinson¹•Institutions (1)

University of Manchester¹

01 Nov 2006-Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

TL;DR: In this paper, test reference years (TRYs) are required for energy analyses and design summer years (DSYs) for assessing natural ventilation in the sum-measure.

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Abstract: With the increasing use of simulation for building design, test reference years (TRYs) are required for energy analyses and design summer years (DSYs) for assessing natural ventilation in the summe...

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"Building resilience to overheating ..." refers methods in this paper

...The TRYs and DSYs for the current climate were created by the Prometheus project research team at Exeter University from the 25 years of hourly data that was available from the Bedford station (1980e2004) using the standard CIBSE method as described in Levermore and Parkinson [30]....
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