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A. Mahdavi:
"Introduction to current topics in building performance - Buildings - Climate - People";
Talk: Current Topics in Building Performance WinterTerm 2016/2017, Current Topics in Building Performance WinterTerm 2016/2017; 2016-10-07 - 2017-01-20.

Global climate change + urban climate
Indicator: Urban Heat Island Index
Mean hourly UHI distribution (rd‐s/7)
Beyond UHI‐Index:
The variance of the urban micro‐climate
A tale of two streets
The street without trees has
Cooling load
How to predict the effectiveness of mitigation?
The potential and limits of urban scale models and the importance of model calibration
What variables influence urban climate variance?
Sky View Factor
What variables influence urban climate variance?
Aspect Ratio of the Urban Canyon
What variables influence urban climate variance?
Building Compactness
CTI correlation with the variables of the U2O - Vienna, reference summer day
CTI correlation with the variables of the U2O - Vienna, reference summer day
CTI correlation with the variables of the U2O - Vienna, reference summer day
Aspects of people's presence and behavior in buildings
Two common fallacies
Case study
Real office area at TU Wien
o Monitored indoor and outdoor
environment, occupants' presence and
operation of window
o Empirically based understanding of
occupant behavior
o Benchmark to evaluate existing models'
predictions
Results
Window operation models
Window operation predictions - Validation calendar year
Implications for annual heating demand predictions
When use what model?

Global climate change + urban climate
Indicator: Urban Heat Island Index
Mean hourly UHI distribution (rd‐s/7)
Beyond UHI‐Index:
The variance of the urban micro‐climate
A tale of two streets
The street without trees has
Cooling load
How to predict the effectiveness of mitigation?
The potential and limits of urban scale models and the importance of model calibration
What variables influence urban climate variance?
Sky View Factor
What variables influence urban climate variance?
Aspect Ratio of the Urban Canyon
What variables influence urban climate variance?
Building Compactness
CTI correlation with the variables of the U2O - Vienna, reference summer day
CTI correlation with the variables of the U2O - Vienna, reference summer day
CTI correlation with the variables of the U2O - Vienna, reference summer day
Aspects of people's presence and behavior in buildings
Two common fallacies
Case study
Real office area at TU Wien
o Monitored indoor and outdoor
environment, occupants' presence and
operation of window
o Empirically based understanding of
occupant behavior
o Benchmark to evaluate existing models'
predictions
Results
Window operation models
Window operation predictions - Validation calendar year
Implications for annual heating demand predictions
When use what model?

Urban Heat Islands, Occupancy, Building Performance, Numeric Simulation, Urban Heat Island mitigation, occupancy modelling