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Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Buildings and Urban Areas
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Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Buildings and Urban Areas

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 7553

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gabriele Battista

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Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma TRE University, Via Vito Volterra 62, 00146 Rome, Italy
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; heat transfer; building physics; energy efficiency; experimental measurements; environmental impact
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Dr. Emanuele De Lieto Vollaro

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Department of Architecture, Roma TRE University, Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi 10, 00154 Rome, Italy
Interests: heat transfer; building physics; energy efficiency; experimental measurements; environmental impact
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Dr. Claudia Guattari

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Department of Philosophy, Communication and Entertainment, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Interests: building physics; energy efficiency; experimental measurements; simulation; heat transfer; sustainability
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The increase of people living in large cities and the expansion of new urban areas are keys to defining new sustainable models. It is estimated that about 70% of the EU’s population lives in urban areas, and this is expected to reach 80% in 2030. The rapid increase of energy demand is a general constant around the world. This growth responds to various reasons, among which the increasing awareness of global warming caused by greenhouse emissions, the inevitable exhaustion of traditional energy sources in the following decades (fossil fuels), and the need for countries to assure energy self-dependence stand out. In addition, the contribution of energy consumption from buildings is about 40% of the overall energy use in developed countries. For developing countries, growth in population and urbanization, increasing demand for building services and comfort levels, together with the increased time spent inside buildings assure that the sharp rise in trends in building energy use will continue for a long time.

Therefore, climate changes and urbanization are the main causes behind the increase of floods, heat waves, drought, hurricanes, and rising sea levels all around the world. In large cities, air temperatures, both in summer and winter, are higher than in the surrounding rural areas and contribute to the urban heat island phenomenon.

This Special Issue intends to cover the gap between single-building investigation perspectives and the larger scale (neighborhoods, districts, cities) in order to achieve energy savings, mitigate the urban heat island, and improve indoor or outdoor thermal comfort. Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of a rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Urban heat island;
  • Climate change;
  • Thermal loads of buildings;
  • Building and urban area simulation;
  • Energy retrofit of buildings;
  • Urban building energy modeling;
  • Microclimate mitigation analysis;
  • Indoor and outdoor thermal comfort;
  • Weather analysis under a climate change context affecting energy performance of the built environment;
  • Urban energy balance analysis and simulation;
  • Building energy resilience to climate change;
  • Case studies;
  • Cool materials;
  • Green wall and green roof;
  • Energy efficiency in buildings;
  • Retroreflective materials.

Therefore, manuscripts within these research areas are most welcome.

Dr. Gabriele Battista
Dr. Emanuele de Lieto Vollaro
Dr. Claudia Guattari
Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Urban heat island
  • Numerical model
  • Mitigation technique
  • Energy performance
  • Energy efficiency
  • Thermal comfort
  • Case studies

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Towards Climate Adaptation in Cities: Indicators of the Sustainable Climate-Adaptive Urban Fabric of Traditional Cities in West Asia
by Akram Ahmed Noman Alabsi, Yue Wu, Auwalu Faisal Koko, Khaled Mohammed Alshareem and Roknizadeh Hamed
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(21), 10428; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app112110428 - 05 Nov 2021
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One of the most important criteria for a city’s sustainability is climate adaptation. Simultaneously, traditional cities in West Asia have achieved harmony between architecture and the environment, depending on the experience and culture of the local community, indicating a fundamental stage of adaptation [...] Read more.
One of the most important criteria for a city’s sustainability is climate adaptation. Simultaneously, traditional cities in West Asia have achieved harmony between architecture and the environment, depending on the experience and culture of the local community, indicating a fundamental stage of adaptation to the environment and climate. This research attempted to study and examine the traditional urban fabric, in order to diagnose its significance and ability to solve contemporary problems, such as the lack of comfortable and suitable urban housing environments in hot–dry climate areas, which cover most of West Asia. We used two research methods to create an integrated vision to investigate the indicators and their effect on urban form. Four case studies in the urban fabric and housing communities of West Asia’s hot–dry research areas were chosen for the analytical study. Furthermore, inductive analysis was carried out to determine the most critical sustainability parameters in the particular urban fabric. The climate response parameters of the study cities were evaluated using Ecotect simulation tools, and the determinants of sustainability indicators were quantitatively evaluated to assess each indicator’s impact on the sustainability of the urban fabric. Our findings have implications for assessing the relevance of climate adaptation in the sustainability of cities and their effectiveness in combating the impacts of climate change. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Buildings and Urban Areas)
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Urban Overheating Impact: A Case Study on Building Energy Performance
by Gabriele Battista, Marta Roncone and Emanuele de Lieto Vollaro
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(18), 8327; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11188327 - 08 Sep 2021
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It is well known that the construction sector is one of the main sectors responsible for energy consumption in the current global energy scenario. Thus, buildings’ energy software become essential tools for achieving energy savings. Climate and its implications for building energy performance [...] Read more.
It is well known that the construction sector is one of the main sectors responsible for energy consumption in the current global energy scenario. Thus, buildings’ energy software become essential tools for achieving energy savings. Climate and its implications for building energy performance are a critical threat. Hence, the aim of this study is to evaluate the climatic conditions in urban and suburban areas of Rome, estimating the incidence of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. To this end, meteorological data obtained from three different areas (two airports and one inside the city) were examined and compared. Then, TRNSYS software was used to create a simple building, in order to assess the impacts of various climatic situations on building energy performance. The study revealed significant percentage differences both in terms of energy needs for heating, from −20.1% to −24.9% when the reference stations are, respectively, Fiumicino and Ciampino, and for cooling, with a wider range, from +48.7% to +87.5% when the reference stations are Ciampino and Fiumicino. Therefore, the study showed the importance of more accurately selecting sets of climate values to be included in energy simulations. Full article
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Analysis of the Main Anthropogenic Sources’ Contribution to Pollutant Emissions in the Lazio Region, Italy
by Gabriele Battista, Emanuele de Lieto Vollaro and Roberto de Lieto Vollaro
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(17), 7936; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app11177936 - 27 Aug 2021
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Most cities worldwide suffer from serious air-quality problems, which have received increasing attention in the past decade. The most probable reason for the air-quality problems is the urban population growth, combined with a change in land use due to increasing urban areas. The [...] Read more.
Most cities worldwide suffer from serious air-quality problems, which have received increasing attention in the past decade. The most probable reason for the air-quality problems is the urban population growth, combined with a change in land use due to increasing urban areas. The emission of air pollutants is caused by different anthropogenic processes which can be categorized into the sources of urban traffic, industry, and domestic heating. Dispersion and dilution of air pollutants are strongly influenced by meteorological conditions, especially by wind direction, wind speed, turbulence, and atmospheric stability. With an increasing number of people living in cities, there is the need to examine the correlation between air pollution, local climate, and the effects these changes have on global climate. New interdisciplinary research studies are needed to increase our understanding of the interactions among these aspects. The aim is to analyze the pollutant condition in Rome and the other provinces of the Lazio region with qualitative and quantitative analysis, in order to understand which are the main pollutant sources and what is the correlation of habits of the population on air pollutant emissions. Full article
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