Abstract
Many factors and aspects of the construction and operation of buildings depend on climatic parameters and climatic zones, so these will be fundamental for adapting and mitigating the effects of climate change. For this reason, the number of climate-oriented publications in building is increasing. This research presents an analysis on the most-cited climate-oriented studies in building in the period 1979–2019. The main themes, the typologies of these investigations and the principal types of climatic zoning used in these studies were analysed through bibliographic and manual analysis. A broad spectrum of themes directly and indirectly related to climate and climatic zones and buildings was demonstrated. It was found that 88% of all climate-oriented investigations, to one degree or another, are within the scope of the general topic of energy conservation. A thorough understanding of all climate-dependent aspects will help in designing dwellings appropriately in different climate zones. In addition, a methodology that facilitates the establishment of a typology of climate-oriented research is presented. This typology can be used in future research in different scientific areas. It was also revealed that the climate zones of the National Building Codes of China, the USA and Turkey prevailed in the studies analysed.
Highlights
The construction industry, in general, and the building industry, in particular, are characterised by a high level of consumption of resources and emissions, which greatly impacts the environment [1,2]; 40% of the total energy consumption and one-third of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are associated with the construction and operation of buildings [3,4,5]
Among the published aspects is the development of methodologies that allow the use of current meteorological data for the energy simulation of the dwellings [10,11], as well as the development of works that are aimed at improving the hierarchy of climatic zones in buildings [12,13], so as to reduce the construction of inefficient houses from an energy point of view, and that take into account the urban, mesoclimatic and microclimatic conditions for buildings [14,15,16,17,18]
Due to the large number of publications dealing with construction from a climate or climate-oriented point of view, either directly or indirectly, the main objective of this work is to establish a scientific map of climate-oriented studies in building, through a bibliographic and manual analysis of the most-cited publications in the period 1979–2019, and to identify the main topics, the typologies of these investigations and the main types of climatic zoning used in these studies and the principal climate zones in which the investigated works were implemented
Summary
The construction industry, in general, and the building industry, in particular, are characterised by a high level of consumption of resources and emissions, which greatly impacts the environment [1,2]; 40% of the total energy consumption and one-third of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are associated with the construction and operation of buildings [3,4,5]. These GHGs, mostly CO2 , are emitted throughout the entire life cycle of buildings, typically, the operation phase accounts for the majority of energy consumption and emissions compared to the construction and demolition phases [6,7,8]. Among the published aspects is the development of methodologies that allow the use of current meteorological data for the energy simulation of the dwellings [10,11], as well as the development of works that are aimed at improving the hierarchy of climatic zones in buildings [12,13], so as to reduce the construction of inefficient houses from an energy point of view, and that take into account the urban, mesoclimatic and microclimatic conditions for buildings [14,15,16,17,18]
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