Buildings and Urban Microclimate Challenges: Impacts on Thermal and Wind Environments
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 1149
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ventilation path; engineering; urban environment; CFD
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Interests: heat island; local climate; urban environment; GIS
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Interests: thermal environment; thermal risks; urban design
Interests: environmental behavior and spatial design; urban heat island; outdoor thermal comfort; wind environment; energy consumption; relocated households; acoustic environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the advancement of urbanization, the distribution of buildings and urban spatial patterns has changed significantly. High-density development and building construction have made urban thermal and wind environment problems increasingly serious. The unreasonable layout of buildings is becoming an important cause of the enhanced urban heat island effect, the decline of ventilation performance, the deterioration of residents' thermal comfort, and the increase of energy load.
This Special Issue focuses on the core role of buildings in the urban microclimate environment, aiming to explore the impact of building form, layout, and spatial scale on the urban thermal and wind environments, as well as the corresponding climate-adaptive design and optimization strategies. We welcome research results from various means, such as theoretical research, empirical analysis, numerical simulation, and architectural design practice, to promote the development of climate-adaptive buildings and urban environments.
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- The impact of building form and distribution on urban thermal and wind environments;
- The impact of building layout on urban heat island effect and local climate;
- Building and street block design strategies to improve thermal and wind environments;
- Building and urban climate assessment and regulation through big data or AI;
- Microscale and mesoscale local climate analysis based on remote sensing, GIS, CFD, ENVI-met, etc.
Dr. Yasuyuki Ishida
Dr. Zheng Wang
Dr. Yifei Peng
Dr. Xilin Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building form
- building layout
- local climate
- ventilation path
- street canyon effect
- wind and thermal environment
- thermal comfort
- ENVI-met
- CFD
- GIS
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