Resilience of ‘Nightingale’ hospital wards in a changing climate:
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Citations
Thermal comfort standards, measured internal temperatures and thermal resilience to climate change of free-running buildings: A case-study of hospital wards
Summertime temperatures and thermal comfort in UK homes
Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems
Health system resilience: a literature review of empirical research
Health care facilities resilient to climate change impacts.
References
The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
On the creation of future probabilistic design weather years from UKCP09
Thermal comfort standards, measured internal temperatures and thermal resilience to climate change of free-running buildings: A case-study of hospital wards
Resilience of naturally ventilated buildings to climate change: advanced natural ventilation and hospital wards
Analyses and algorithms for new Test Reference Years and Design Summer Years for the UK
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Q2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Resilience of ‘nightingale’ hospital wards in a changing climate" ?
The future weather years were created from the UKCP09 future climate projections assuming an A1B global emissions development scenariof using the method evolved by the University of Exeter for the ‘ Prometheus ’ research project. It can be seen that the occurrence of higher temperatures increases gradually in the TRYs but quite rapidly in the DSYs. The results clearly indicate that neither the existing or refurbished building will overheat in typical years, as judged by the HTM03 and BSEN15251 criteria but in the 2050s warmer night-time temperatures may be experienced ( although these might be ameliorated easily with a refined window opening regimen ). The BSEN15251 approach, which accommodates human adaptation to the prevailing ambient conditions and thus their preference for warmer conditions in free-running buildings as the ambient conditions become warmer, indicates that the refurbishment options that do not incorporate cooling will remain comfortable in both typical and extreme years right up to 2080s.