Mortality benefit of building adaptations to protect care home residents against heat risks in the context of uncertainty over loss of life expectancy from heat

Ibbetson, Andrew; Milojevic, Ai; Mavrogianni, Anna; Oikonomou, Eleni; Jain, Nishesh; Tsoulou, Ioanna; Petrou, Giorgos; Gupta, Rajat; Davies, Martin; Wilkinson, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2021.100307

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“…Furthermore, shading protections and cooling measures, such as mechanical or natural ventilation [ 16 ], are key to environmentally mitigate indoor overheating [ 17 ]. In fact, window shading systems have proven to noticeably reduce heat deaths during warm periods [ 18 ] and the use of inactive design methods, such as air infiltration, becomes a cheapest solution to achieve comfort in low-energy buildings, reducing energy consumption, especially in warm periods [ 19 ]. In this line, Pérez-Andreu et al [ 20 ] assess the impact of several strategies (such as infiltrations, shading devices or natural ventilation) on heating and cooling energy demand under future climate change scenarios, through the analysis of a single-family building located in Valencia.…”

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Climate change mitigation: thermal comfort improvement in Mediterranean social dwellings through dynamic test cells modelling

Calama-González

León-Rodríguez

Suárez

2022

Int J Energy Environ Eng

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Global warming will lead to adverse consequences for human health and well-being. This research ought to determine whether passive low-cost strategies freely controlled by users (ventilation strategies, solar shadings or window operation) could be applied in low-income dwellings to meet acceptable thermal comfort to retrofit the Mediterranean social housing stock of southern Spain towards climate change. On-site measurements registered in some test cells (controlled environment with no users’ influence) were used to calibrate dynamic energy simulation models. The impact of several future periods, climate zones of southern Spain and orientations on thermal comfort was assessed. The results show that climate change triggers a more significant increase in outdoor temperatures in summer than in winter. Should ventilation be kept to minimum and blinds opened during daytime in winter, higher comfort would be achieved, with great differences between orientations and south reporting the best results. The higher the outdoor temperatures due to climate change, the higher the percentage of comfort hours (i.e. 23–68% in the present and 50–75% in 2080). In summer, natural night ventilation and blinds closed during daytime lead to the best comfort result, with negligible temperature differences between orientations. Future climate change scenarios worsen the percentage of comfort hours (i.e. 96–100% in the present, while up to 17% in 2080). Mechanical ventilation and blind aperture schedules were found to have the highest influence on overheating discomfort. Likewise, mechanical and natural ventilation schedules had the highest impact on undercooling discomfort.

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Climate change mitigation: thermal comfort improvement in Mediterranean social dwellings through dynamic test cells modelling

Calama-González

León-Rodríguez

Suárez

2022

Int J Energy Environ Eng

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Future Changes in Indicators of Climate Hazard and Resource in the UK

Arnell,

Dorling,

Fowler

et al. 2023

Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK

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The UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) funded several projects that have calculated how climate change is likely to affect climate hazards and resources across the UK, using the latest UK Climate Projections (UKCP18). Under a high emissions scenario, heatwaves and high temperature extremes become more frequent across the UK, leading to an increase in human mortality, animal heat stress, potato blight, wildfire danger and damage to road and rail infrastructure. Cold weather extremes continue to occur but become less frequent. Also under high emissions, the growing season starts earlier, lasts longer and is warmer; this is particularly beneficial for grassland and viticulture, but the chance of summer drought and dry soils increases. The precise effects vary across different agricultural systems. With respect to rainfall, high hourly and daily totals become more frequent, leading to a greater chance of flash flooding. River floods become more frequent in the north and west of the UK, but low river flows and droughts also become more frequent, and water quality in upland water sources declines. The actual size of the change in risk is uncertain, primarily due to uncertainty in exactly how rainfall will change. There are large differences in change in risk across the UK. However, the actual size of the change in risk is uncertain, primarily due to uncertainty in exactly how rainfall will change.

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Dessai,

Lonsdale,

Lowe

et al. 2023

Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK

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Investing in ‘gluing’ roles, as was performed by the UKCR Champions, is essential for building community and delivering impact, as is a strong online and social media presence and a programme of community building events. Resilience research should be ‘user’ or ‘challenge’ led and needs to invest in ways of working that facilitate innovative and transdisciplinary approaches. Key research gaps remain including in understanding compound, transboundary, cascading and systemic risks; place-based vulnerability assessments that combine risk information with other socioeconomic and behavioural factors; and scaling-up climate services. Future adaptation research programmes should prioritise further developing the research-practice community to adequately address the complex challenge of building resilience.

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Mortality benefit of building adaptations to protect care home residents against heat risks in the context of uncertainty over loss of life expectancy from heat

Cited by 8 publications

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Climate change mitigation: thermal comfort improvement in Mediterranean social dwellings through dynamic test cells modelling

Climate change mitigation: thermal comfort improvement in Mediterranean social dwellings through dynamic test cells modelling

Future Changes in Indicators of Climate Hazard and Resource in the UK

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