Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heat waves and poweroutages: Key concepts and definition

[en] The concept of climate resilience has gained extensive international attention during the last few years and is now seen as the future target for building cooling design. However, before being fully implemented in building design, the concept requires a clear and consistent definition and a commonly agreed frame-work of key concepts. The most critical issues that should be given special attention before developing a new definition for resilient cooling of buildings are (1) the disruptions or the associated climatic shocks to protect against, (2) the scale of the built domain, (3) the timeline of resilience, (4) the events of disruption, (5) the stages of resilience, (6) the indoor climate limits and critical comfort conditions, and (7) the influencing factors of resilient cooling of buildings. This paper focuses on a scoping review of the most of the existing resilience definitions and the various approaches, found in 90 documents, towards possible resilient buildings. In conclusion, the paper suggests a definition and a set of criteria —vulnerability, resistance, robustness, and recoverability— that can help to develop intrinsic performance-driven indicator sand functions of passive and active cooling solutions in buildings against two disruptors of indoor thermal environmental quality—heat waves and power outages.

Disciplines :

Architecture

Author, co-author :

Attia, Shady ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Techniques de construction des bâtiments

Levinson, Ronnen

Ndongo, Eileen

Holzer, Peter

Berk Kazanci

Homaei, Shabnam

Zhang, Chen

Olesen, Bjarne W.

Qi, Dahai

Hamdy, Mohamed ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Techniques de construction des bâtiments

Heiselberg, Per

Language :

English

Title :

Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heat waves and poweroutages: Key concepts and definition

Publication date :

15 May 2021

Journal title :

Energy and Buildings

ISSN :

0378-7788

eISSN :

1872-6178

Publisher :

Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume :

239

Issue :

110869

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778821001535?via%3Dihub

Name of the research project :

[OCCuPANt] Impacts of climate change on buildings in Belgium during summer

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