Regulations corroborate the importance of retrofitting existing building stocks or constructing
new energy-efficient districts. There is, thus, a need for modeling tools to evaluate energy …

The current climate change is calling for a drastic reduction of energy demand as well as of
greenhouse gases. Besides this, cities also need to adapt to face the challenges related to …

Dense urban morphologies further amplify extreme climate events due to the urban heat
island phenomenon, rendering cities more vulnerable to extreme climate events. Here we …

The urban thermal and wind environment (UTWE) has become a major concern in urban
planning design. Consideration of the UTWE involves steps of modelling, assessment, and …

The urban context is often simplified or neglected in Building Energy Models (BEMs) due to
the difficulties of taking accurately into account all the heat fluxes emanating from the …

The urban energy infrastructure is facing a rising number of challenges due to climate
change and rapid urbanization. In particular, the link between urban morphology and energy …

One of the major obstacles to using numerical weather prediction models for guidance on
mitigating urbanization's impact on local and regional climate is the lack of detailed and …

An urban microclimate model integrated with the mesoscale, local scale, microscale and
building scale models is presented for the urban thermal environment and urban heat island …

Rapid growth of cities, concerns on global warming and depletion of fossil fuel resources
call for sustainable energy solutions for cities. Distributed energy systems such as energy …

The rapid urbanization introduces changes in the local urban microclimate. Many efforts
have been paid on the impact assessment of building design on local microclimate …