Residential buildings’ thermal performance and comfort for the elderly under climate changes context in the city of São Paulo, Brazil

Making energy simulation easier for future climate – Synthesizing typical and extreme weather data sets out of regional climate models (RCMs)

“…[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]), thermal comfort and Indoor environmental quality (e.g. [25][26][27][28][29][30]), building characteristics as well as construction and retrofitting strategies (e.g. [31][32][33][34][35]) and assessing the energy saving potentials and the performance of building components ( [20,33,[36][37][38]).…”

A Parametric Study and Performance Evaluation of Energy Retrofit Solutions for Buildings Located in the Hot-Humid Climate of Paraguay—Sensitivity Analysis

“…and T se , respectively), and the heat transfer through the building's envelope are also studied.The discomfort rate is computed considering two methods: the former, according to the acceptable indoor operative temperatures for buildings in the Category II of the standard EN 15251 for the design of buildings without mechanical cooling systems [22], which employs the adaptive method [23]; and the latter, applying the statistic method, using fixed threshold values of comfort temperature. This approach was already adopted for the thermal comfort assessment of buildings by several scientific research [24][25][26][27][28][29].In order to set the fixed range for the city of Asunción, which does not have a national standard energy code, a scientific literature analysis was performed. The static models usually set fixed thresholds values of comfort temperatures, and they have been widely used in a significant number of thermal regulations around the world.…”

O impacto da vegetação no microclima em cidades adensadas e seu papel na adaptação aos fenômenos de aquecimento urbano. Contribuições a uma abordagem intersdisciplinar

“…As ondas de calor são cada vez mais frequentes e intensas, 7 o que já não é incomum no Brasil. 8 Além do aumento da temperatura média, um aumento na ocorrência dos eventos extremos é esperado, com a intensificação das chuvas intensas, 9 das ondas de calor, com consequências na saúde e mortalidade. Megacidades como São Paulo são vulneráveis ao aquecimento global e efeitos de aquecimento local, provocados pela urbanização.…”

“…Acesso em 11/05/2015. 8 "Temperatures were particularly high in the south of Brazil and in northern Argentina. In Argentina the average temperature anomaly for the year to October would place it second highest on record.…”

“…Under the current climate in São Paulo, microclimate results at the pedestrian level for an urban park of 1ha and dense trees with LAI 4,6, in the middle of a dense urban environment with 15 floors' towers, presents a difference in comfort indexes about 10 o C (TEP) and 13,4 o C (PET), when compared to the same urban scenario without vegetation. In a future climate scenario (2045 to 2074), with the air temperature raising according to IPCC AR5 RCP8.5, the same park presents a reduction of 5 o C (TEP) and 6 o C (PET); adding street trees, the reduction goes to 7 o C (TEP) and 8,5 o C (PET), both significant for human thermal comfort. The strategy to keep dense trees in urban parks, connected to street trees configuring a green infrastructure network in the city, can contribute directly for the adaptation to extreme climate events, creating an oasis effect during heatwaves.…”