Artificial intelligence technologies such as computer vision (CV), machine learning, Internet
of Things (IoT), and robotics have advanced rapidly in recent years. The new technologies …

Increasing awareness of the urban heat island (UHI) effect has raised attention about the
outdoor thermal comfort in cities worldwide. Several studies in the last decades have …

Metrics are instrumental in design assessments. Solar performance metrics help designers
to evaluate solar access in cities. Metrics should be used early in the urban planning stages …

This paper presents the results of an investigation on the relationship between urban block
typology, solar energy harvesting potential and building energy use efficiency in the context …

The effects of climate change and Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomena have raised the
attention for monitoring and evaluating the outdoor thermal comfort. The urban vegetation …

The mean radiant temperature, T mrt, which sums up all shortwave and longwave radiation
fluxes (both direct and reflected) to which the human body is exposed is one of the key …

Building geometries strongly constrain the on-site solar energy use. In this work, solar
energy use is measured by solar energy penetration and capital costs for the photovoltaic …

This study identifies the use of the sky view factor (SVF) in urban climate studies. In addition,
it relates air temperature differences to the SVF and examines these differences with respect …

This study is focused on two aspects of the urban heat island (UHI). Firstly, the study is
aimed at examining the difference in temperature between zones that are classified into …

The use of high resolution 3D urban raster and vector databases in urban climatology is
presented. It applies two different methods to the calculation of continuous sky view factors …