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Urban heat island impacts on building energy consumption: A review of approaches and findings
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In this paper, the authors reviewed existing literature for improving the understanding of UHI impacts on building energy consumption and found that UHI could result in a median increase of 19.0% in cooling energy consumption, and a median decrease of 18.7% in heating energy consumption.About:
This article is published in Energy.The article was published on 2019-05-01. It has received 260 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban heat island.read more
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The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat: A Study of 108 US Urban Areas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between "redlining" or the historical practice of refusing home loans or insurance to whole neighborhoods based on a racially motivated perception of safety for investment, with present-day summertime intra-urban land surface temperature anomalies.
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Recent progress on urban overheating and heat island research. integrated assessment of the energy, environmental, vulnerability and health impact synergies with the global climate change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed and reported the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating in energy, peak electricity demand, air quality, mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.
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Heating and cooling energy trends and drivers in buildings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a source of information on thermal energy use in buildings, its drivers, and their past, present and future trends on a global and regional basis.
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Optimum insulation thicknesses and energy conservation of building thermal insulation materials in Chinese zone of humid subtropical climate
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the new aerogel super-insulation material for building-energy-conservation application in a typical office building of humid subtropical climate as a model, established a whole-life-cycle assessment model to exploit the optimum economic thickness, and further evaluated the energy-saving rate, economic benefits, the greenhouse-gas emissions, etc.
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Impact of urban heat island on energy demand in buildings: Local climate zones in Nanjing
Xiaoshan Yang,Lilliana L.H. Peng,Zhidian Jiang,Zhidian Jiang,Yuan Chen,Lingye Yao,Lingye Yao,Yunfei He,Tianjing Xu +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of neighborhood-scale urban heat island (UHI) on the energy performance of buildings was investigated. But the authors focused on the residential buildings and did not consider the office buildings.
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