Climate change impacts on critical urban infrastructure and urban resiliency strategies for the Middle East

M Salimi, SG Al-Ghamdi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
A number of published studies have demonstrated that the human habitability of the primary
urban areas in the Middle East, especially a number of areas in Gulf Cooperation Council …

A review of climate change implications for built environment: Impacts, mitigation measures and associated challenges in developed and developing countries

I Andrić, M Koc, SG Al-Ghamdi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
This interdisciplinary review organizes, summarizes and critically analyzes the literature
regarding the nexus between climate change and the built environment, its associated …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic building stock modelling: Application to 11 European countries to support the energy efficiency and retrofit ambitions of the EU

NH Sandberg, I Sartori, O Heidrich, R Dawson… - Energy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
A dynamic building stock model is applied to simulate the development of dwelling stocks in
11 European countries, over half of all European dwellings, between 1900 and 2050. The …

A review of the energy implications of passive building design and active measures under climate change in the Middle East

NA Fereidani, E Rodrigues, AR Gaspar - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
As buildings consume fossil fuel-based energy, they contribute to greenhouse gas
emissions which raise global temperatures. Buildings will then require more energy for …

Advancing the framework for considering the effects of climate change on worker safety and health

PA Schulte, A Bhattacharya, CR Butler… - … of occupational and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In 2009, a preliminary framework for how climate change could affect worker safety and
health was described. That framework was based on a literature search from 1988–2008 …

The impact of future scenarios on building refurbishment strategies towards plus energy buildings

A Passer, C Ouellet-Plamondon, P Kenneally… - Energy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Buildings account for 40% of total global energy consumption. The International Energy
Agency (IEA) and the European Commission (EC) are attempting to achieve an 80 …

A systematic review of climate change implications on building energy consumption: impacts and adaptation measures in hot urban desert climates

NA Kutty, D Barakat, AO Darsaleh, YK Kim - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
The climate change–built environment nexus is complex and intertwined. Recognizing the
rising air temperatures and solar radiations owing to climate-induced global warming, it is …

Building cooling requirements under climate change scenarios: Impact, mitigation strategies, and future directions

AM Khourchid, SB Ajjur, SG Al-Ghamdi - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change affects building cooling demand; however, little has been done to explore
this effect and show its variability in different climatic zones. This review organizes and …

Modeling energy refurbishment scenarios for the Hellenic residential building stock towards the 2020 & 2030 targets

EG Dascalaki, CA Balaras, S Kontoyiannidis… - Energy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Residential buildings in Greece account for about 79% of the exclusive-use building stock
and consume about a quarter of the total final energy consumption, with space heating and …

Definition of nearly zero-energy building requirements based on a large building sample

Z Szalay, A Zöld - Energy policy, 2014 - Elsevier
According to the recast of the Energy Performance Building Directive, Member States must
give an exact definition for nearly zero-energy buildings to be introduced from 2018/2020 …