Cement concrete pavement is prone to early deterioration during the construction phase, and the early performance during the construction phase is significantly affected by the external temperature and humidity field. This article selects meteorologi...
Buildings in hot–humid climates experience increasing thermal stress due to urban heat islands and climate change, leading to greater reliance on air conditioning. Passive cooling is therefore a crucial low-carbon strategy for maintaining therm...
Against the backdrop of global sustainable development, university campuses are typical high-energy-consuming entities and important carriers for practicing green and low-carbon concepts. However, China’s unified assessment standard for green c...
In recent years, semi-outdoor space has become an important research subject in the field of thermal comfort. Overhead space located on the ground floor is a common type of semi-outdoor space in China’s Lingnan region with a hot and humid clima...
The problem of population aging in China is becoming increasingly serious. Increasing outdoor space can increase the frequency of outdoor activities for the elderly and effectively improve their quality of life. In this study, we examined the thermal...
Airport pavements are prone to early defects during the construction phase, and their early performance during the construction phase is significantly affected by the external temperature field. This article takes the concrete pavement of Xiamen Xian...
In this paper, the energy performance of a university campus in a tropical climate is assessed, and four mixed classroom buildings are compared using benchmarking methods based on simple normalization: the classic Energy Use Intensity (EUI), end-used...
Humidity-regulating materials (HRMs) represent a promising class of passive, energy-efficient materials capable of autonomously modulating indoor environmental conditions, particularly in hot and humid regions where conventional HVAC systems account...
To analyze the performance stability of image intensifiers under humid and hot environments, this study systematically investigates the device performance degradation mechanism through a combination of natural exposure tests, humidity variation aging...
The performance of adhesive-bonded joints, which are being increasingly used in the aerospace and automotive industries, under hot-humid conditions remains largely unknown. The effect of surface treatments on the strength durability of aluminum-lithi...
Due to the different types of courtyards in vertical courtyard system (VCS), their impacts on thermal performance in office buildings may vary. To better understand this issue, this paper investigates the thermal performance impact of three typical v...
Aluminoborosilicate glasses find a wide range of applications, which require good mechanical reliability such as surface damage resistance. Calcium aluminoborosilicate (CABS) glasses have recently been found to exhibit so-called intermediate behavior...
This paper investigated the durability and structural performance of concrete bridge deck pavements under high temperature and high humidity conditions, focusing on three aspects: mix design, road performance evaluation, and structural optimization d...
This work analyzed changes in the corrosion morphology and mechanical performance of 7085 aluminum alloy after outdoor exposures for different times in a humid and hot marine atmospheric environment. After one month of exposure, a pronounced corrosio...
Pocket parks serve as vital everyday green spaces in high-density cities, yet many remain underused, especially in hot–humid regions where thermal discomfort restricts outdoor activities. Traditional pocket-park classification approaches overlo...
Globally, buildings are responsible for around 32% of energy consumption and 34% of greenhouse gas emissions. One reason for this is the poor energy efficiency of much of the current building stock. Around 75% of today’s buildings are projected...
The objective of this research was to determine the proper thermal comfort in an atrium design for single-floor, medium-rise, and high-rise buildings based on different proportions, placements, window opening ratios, and internal condition systems. E...
Vernacular settlements in hot–humid regions preserve climate-responsive spatial knowledge, yet evidence on how linked outdoor, transitional, and indoor spaces jointly shape microclimate and thermal comfort remains limited. This study investigat...
Hot and humid areas experience constant high temperatures and high humidity during summer, causing widespread concern about outdoor thermal discomfort. This paper investigates the effects of landscape design strategies on outdoor thermal environments...
“Desigrated” presented an attempt to integrate heat prevention strategies with low-ex cooling technologies, namely the desiccant and M-cycle evaporative cooling technology, in the form of a façade system for high-rise office buildi...
Urbanisation has significantly transformed human settlements, presenting sustainability challenges, particularly in hot-dry and humid climates. The urban heat island effect and increased energy consumption exacerbate reliance on mechanical cooling an...
Heat waves are deteriorating the indoor thermal environment of non-air-conditioned buildings, bringing more intensive heat-humid exposures, which poses a great threat to human cognitive performance that is closely related to human safety and health....
Frequent extreme weather driven by climate change makes building resilience an essential guarantee for urban livability and sustainable development. As key building energy-consuming facilities, aged refrigeration plants suffer from low efficiency, hi...
To date, energy consumption in buildings accounts for a significant part of the total amount of energy consumed worldwide. The effect of ageing and degradation of various building components is one of the least studied reasons for the possible increa...
The pressure to provide social housing in a fast and economic way, as well as outdated regulations, constrain the design of these buildings, having serious implications for the comfort of occupants and the environment. This becomes more critical in h...
This study focuses on how modern architecture can be interpreted using regional data and how hot and humid climate data ultimately affect façade design. Despite modernism’s dominance in 20th-century architecture, research on its adaptati...
Hot-humid areas have long, hot summers and poor outdoor thermal comfort (OTC). The urban heat island (UHI) effect exacerbates the deterioration of OTC in hot-humid areas, seriously affecting the thermal safety of children’s outdoor activities....
Planting trees is an effective way to regulate the outdoor thermal environment and combat urban heat islands (UHIs). Tree species and layout can have a considerable effect on, for example, the outdoor shading and wind fields, and finally the distribu...
As the gymnasiums in subtropical region with hot and humid climate are naturally ventilated during non-competition periods, occupants exercising indoors often feel uncomfortable, especially in summer. In order to provide thermally comfortable and hea...
Red clay in humid-hot environments suffers from severe water sensitivity and rainfall-induced slope instability, while traditional cement/lime stabilization faces high carbon emission challenges. Existing studies on plant ash-modified red clay mainly...
The number of scientific papers has dramatically increased in recent years; however, such a huge number of papers often become difficult to review qualitatively because of limited time and cost. A text-mining-based bibliometric analysis method is dev...
School buildings in hot-humid climates encounter considerable difficulties in balancing energy use and thermal comfort due to this environment, necessitating optimized design strategies to reduce energy consumption while enhancing occupant comfort. T...
Green roofs may be considered a passive energy saving technology that also offer benefits like environmental friendliness and enhancement of aesthetic and architectural qualities of buildings. This paper examines the energy and economic viability of...
Moisture damage in buildings has traditionally been discussed primarily in relation to winter condensation in cold climates. In hot-humid regions, however, damage develops under different boundary conditions, including warm and humid outdoor air, fre...
Heat loss and gain through windows has a very high impact on the thermal comfort of offices. This paper analyzes a standard low energy consumption university office that has a standard envelope. Dynamic thermal simulations with EDSL Tas software, a p...
Skywells are crucial for climate regulation in traditional Chinese dwelling architecture, exhibiting significant variations across climatic regions. This study focuses on humid–hot China, using Huangshan, to explore skywell parameters’ im...
Research simultaneously examining building energy consumption and outdoor thermal comfort within urban environments remains limited. Few studies have delved into the sensitivity of design parameters based on building energy consumption and outdoor th...
Street vitality has become an important indicator for evaluating the attractiveness and potential for the sustainable development of urban neighborhoods. However, research on this topic may overestimate or underestimate the effects of different influ...
This study compared a programmable logic controller (PLC) combining indoor temperature, outdoor temperature, and outdoor relative humidity with conventional temperature-triggered pad cooling and manual fan adjustment in two commercial rabbit houses i...
Radiative sky cooling is an appealing form of heat exchange between terrestrial objects and outer space through thermal radiation, which is attracting worldwide interest due to its nature as passive cooling, that is, cooling without consuming energy....
To address the pronounced degradation of skid resistance in steel bridge deck pavements exposed to hot, humid, and rainy environments, this study investigates an EA-10 epoxy–asphalt mixture and proposes a gradation design method with skid resis...
Earth-to-air heat exchangers (EAHEs) are widely used to reduce the indoor temperature and associated cooling energy demand of buildings. This study investigated the potential reduction in indoor temperatures via energy-efficient ventilation through E...
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Whenever people spend time outdoors during hot weather, they are putting themselves in potentially stressful situations. Being able to predict whether a person is overheating can be critical in preventing heat-health issues. There is a clear relation...
Air infiltration is a highly uncertain input in building energy simulation, yet its effects on cooling-dominated educational buildings remain poorly quantified. This study quantified infiltration sensitivity in a 34,168 m2 university building in hot-...
The existing building stock faces the challenge of low energy efficiency and requires renovation and upgrading to meet society′s goals of carbon reduction and sustainable development. This study presents an optimization framework utilizing gene...
This study evaluated outdoor thermal comfort in commercial and residential mixed-use blocks in hot and humid climates. A subjective survey questionnaire examined thermal environment metrics, individual data, and 141 pedestrian responses. The findings...
It is quite difficult to investigate thermal comfort in hot–humid regions, and there have not been many real case studies or research related to this issue. In this article, four running events held in nearby popular travel spots in Kaohsiung, the la...
During the conceptual design phase, detailed geometric models are often unavailable, hindering energy-driven decisions for five-story office buildings. This paper proposes a geometry simplification strategy for office buildings in hot–humid reg...
Hot and humid climates challenge conventional residential designs in maintaining thermal comfort, often leading to a heavy reliance on energy-intensive mechanical cooling. This dependence increases operational costs and contributes to elevated carbon...
In tropical regions like sub-Saharan Africa, conventional vapor compression HVAC systems contribute disproportionately to energy use, operating costs, and carbon emissions—particularly in coastal urban areas where humidity-driven cooling demand...
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