Influence of urban canopy green coverage and future climate change scenarios on energy consumption of urban developments

The trend of urban and suburban developments is concluding that more than 70% of the world population will be living inurban areas by mid-21st century within dis-comfortable built environment. In Egypt, a concern about climate change resilientcommunities is having more listeners after Paris climate agreement in 2015. Therefore, assessing present and future outdoormicroclimatic effects on the indoor environmental quality and energy consumption in turn is crucial to build the capacitiesfor mitigation and adaptation strategies. In this research work, the coupled outdoor–indoor simulation methodology is appliedusing ENVI-met and DesignBuilder to let buildings respond to the street canyon conditions since indoor simulation packagesdoes not consider urban details. Such mutual relation is explored in a site case in Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, Egypt, in whichurban canopy green coverage (trees, green walls and roofs) have been applied. Comparing results of indoor thermal comfortfor the examined site buildings in present until end of century (2020, 2050 and 2080) with and without the urban canopy greencoverage; show that indicators and adaptation strategies can be developed for climate change scenarios.