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On the robustness of thermal comfort against uncertain future climate: A Bayesian bootstrap method
  • Publication Type:
    Journal article
  • Authors:
    Cui C, Raslan R, Korolija I, Chalabi Z
  • Publisher:
    Elsevier BV
  • Publication date:
    12/2022
  • Journal:
    Building and Environment
  • Volume:
    226
  • Article number:
    109665
  • Status:
    Published
  • Language:
    English
  • Keywords:
    Robustness Bootstrap, Climate, Overheating, Uncertainty, Simulation
  • Notes:
    © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract
Climate change mitigation and adaptation warrants their synergetic consideration in the building design process, yet past decades have witnessed an unbalanced focus on the mitigation of energy and carbon. In redressing the imbalance, the major challenge lies in the accurate prediction of future building performance via building energy modelling, which is considerably hindered by uncertainties in future climate data. Robustness analysis is a promising technique to inform uncertainty-based decision-making, but its application to future thermal comfort has yet to be sufficiently explored in the built environment. From the perspective of domestic overheating, this paper represents an initial investigation into the implementation of the Bayesian bootstrap method, to quantitatively evaluate the robustness of thermal comfort against uncertain future climate. This is demonstrated using a case study of two typical post-retrofit dwellings in England, where the Bayesian bootstrap also enables the statistical comparison of their expected future overheating risk with climate uncertainty considered. The main findings reveal the magnitude of both overheating risk and its variability experienced during nocturnal occupancy in regulation-compliant dwellings, respectively comprising nearly 15 and 12 times greater than during daytime in extreme cases. Results also imply that adaptive ventilation is potentially the key measure to enhance the robustness of thermal comfort against climate uncertainty. Overall, the Bayesian bootstrap is shown to provide a systematically consistent approach to the robustness assessment of future thermal comfort, which can facilitate the comparability of design alternatives that is vital to the building design decision-making process integrating both mitigation and adaptation strategies.
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