Local and state governments find it challenging to adopt aggressive residential building
codes that require energy-efficiency upgrades beyond those with a reasonable payback …

Environmental issues, costs, and limited energy supply, among other concerns have been
driving the efforts toward more energy efficient buildings over the last four decades. Hence …

Abstract Municipalities use Heat Vulnerability Indices (HVIs) to quantify and map relative
distribution of risks to human health in the event of a heatwave. These maps ostensibly allow …

Continued growth in the American Southwest depends on the reliable delivery of services by
critical infrastructure systems, including water, power, and transportation. As these systems …

Recently, due to the increase in the number and severity of heat waves, there is a growing
interest in understanding overheating inside buildings and the associated health risks. As a …

The leading source of weather-related deaths in the United States is heat, and future
projections show that the frequency, duration, and intensity of heat events will increase in …

Buildings play a significant role in indoor and outdoor exposure to heat in urban areas. In
this study, we quantify the heat mitigation potential of typical building energy efficiency …

When heat waves coincide with loss of access to air conditioning (eg, due to power
outages), the adverse impacts on well-being of occupants will be exacerbated. Hence, there …

The objective of the present study was to examine the effects of a confluence of
demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and environmental factors that systematically …

Heat vulnerability of urban populations is becoming a major issue of concern with climate
change, particularly in the cities of the Southwest United States. In this article we discuss the …