Impacts of urban location and climate change upon energy demand of office buildings in Vienna, Austria

Influence of climate change on summer cooling costs and heat stress in urban office buildings

“…without active cooling equipment. In the latter type of buildings, unfavorable conditions due to overheating have an important influence on the wellbeing and the productivity of the office workers (Leaman and Bordass 1999;Seppänen et al 2003;Berger et al 2014). If these adverse conditions become too severe, precautions are demanded according to international and national legislations.…”

An integrated supply-demand model for the optimization of energy flow in the urban system

“…Building energy models cover a range of spatial scales from a single building to the whole city and can rely on bottom-up simulation techniques and Geographical Information System (GIS)-based tools. Bottom-up simulation models have been widely used to estimate energy demand in buildings (De Lieto Vollaro et al, 2015;Verbai et al, 2014;Kavgic et al, 2013;Eom et al, 2012) and to study their design and renovation (Aksoezen et al, 2015;Chantrelle et al, 2011) or the way they are affected by the urban climate (Berger et al, 2014;Hong et al, 2013;Liu and Sweeney, 2012). Development of simulation models have been also pursued by scholars for analyzing energy efficiency metrics in residential buildings with a special focus on managing heating and cooling loads and introducing demand side management programs (Mardookhy et al, 2014;Ma et al, 2014;Jiang et al, 2013;Tulsyan et al, 2013).…”

Modelling the spatiotemporal change of canopy urban heat islands

“…Berger, et al [14] in their study concluded that hottest locations in moderate climates tend to reduce energy demands in the wintertime. From that, the identification of UHI events in terms of location, time and magnitude would help building designers for the more accurate simulation of building energy usage particularly for air conditioning and refrigeration [14].…”

“…From that, the identification of UHI events in terms of location, time and magnitude would help building designers for the more accurate simulation of building energy usage particularly for air conditioning and refrigeration [14]. So, urban planners should take into account the impacts of UHI for future cities, and work on the possible solutions to mitigate theme in existing cities.…”