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The Potential of the Built Environment in Climate-Related Challenges (2nd Edition)

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 April 2025) | Viewed by 2197

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Dr. Marco Ferrero

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Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: architectural engineering; building performances; regenerative design; stone materials; architectural heritage renovation; building information modelling
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is the second edition in a series of publications dedicated to “The Potential of the Built Environment in Climate-Related Challenges” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/Built_Climate).

It is now well documented that the built environment has a major impact on climate change. About half of the world's energy demand is directly or indirectly related to the built environment. The consequences in terms of greenhouse gas emissions are significant, as is the exacerbation of phenomena such as Urban Heat Islands.

Dealing with these problems presents interesting challenges for the development of construction activities, both in the case of new construction and in the case of the renovation or rehabilitation of existing building heritage.

The development of information technology has led to the provision of advanced modelling tools that are capable of carrying out highly sophisticated dynamic analyses and predictions, which are of great assistance to the designer.

However, new and interesting possibilities arise from the possible applications of Artificial Intelligence. Optimisation algorithms are already available that can easily operate on these "Building-Informed Models".

The aim of this Special Issue is to present the state of the art and possible application developments that will facilitate the exploitation of Artificial Intelligence’s potential to reduce the energy impact of the built environment, thus contributing to reductions in atmospheric pollutant emissions and carbon dioxide consumption in the name of combating climate change.

Dr. Marco Ferrero
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable built environment
  • climate adaptation
  • regenerative design
  • complexities and uncertainties
  • architectural engineering
  • architectural and urban design
  • waste management
  • built heritage
  • innovative construction components
  • building energy performance and retrofit
  • citizens’ involvement
  • green and blue solutions

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Exploring the Configurational Relationships between Urban Heat Island Patterns and the Built Environment: A Case Study of Beijing
by Jing Xu, Yihui Liu and Jianfei Cao
Atmosphere 2024, 15(10), 1200; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15101200 - 8 Oct 2024
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 1718
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The spatial heterogeneity of land surface temperature (LST) within cities is profoundly influenced by the built environment. Although significant progress has been made in the study of the urban thermal environment, there is still a lack of research on how the pattern and [...] Read more.
The spatial heterogeneity of land surface temperature (LST) within cities is profoundly influenced by the built environment. Although significant progress has been made in the study of the urban thermal environment, there is still a lack of research on how the pattern and structural layout of the built environment affects the thermal environment. In this study, we take the Fifth Ring Road of Beijing as an example, invert the urban LST on the basis of multisource spatial data, characterize the built environment, and use k-means cluster analysis to investigate the main influencing factors of the LST in different functional areas and building patterns within the city, as well as the spatial relationship between the built environment and the urban LST. The results show the following: (1) The urban heat island (UHI) effect occurs to varying degrees over a large part of the study area, and these UHI areas are mainly concentrated in the southwestern part of the city, forming a large contiguous area between the second and fifth ring roads. (2) Class 1 is dominated by transport blocks, Class 3 is dominated by commercial blocks, and Class 5 is dominated by green space blocks, with a clustering index of 0.38. (3) The high-density, high-height class (HH-Class 2) has a greater number of blocks distributed in a ring shape around the periphery of the second ring road. The high-density, low-height class (HL-Class 2) has a relatively small number of blocks but a relatively large area, and the largest blocks are located in the western part of the study area. (4) In the HH and HL building patterns, extreme heat scenarios often occur; from the perspective of functional areas, the probability of extreme heat in the transport block is much higher than that of other functional areas, and except for the HH scenario, the green space functional area plays a very important role in reducing the temperature. This study explores the characteristics of the built environment that influence the urban LST from the perspective of different urban functional zones in cities to provide decision support for quantitative territorial spatial planning, optimization, and management. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Potential of the Built Environment in Climate-Related Challenges (2nd Edition))
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