Ford, Brian;
Mumovic, Dejan;
Rawal, Rajan;
(2022)
Alternatives to air-conditioning: policies, design, technologies, behaviours.
Buildings and Cities
, 3
(1)
pp. 433-447.
10.5334/bc.256.
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Abstract
Far from being a panacea, air-conditioning is shown to create social, environmental and economic problems. Alternatives to air-conditioning are identified as a key means of reducing energy demand and carbon emissions, improving resilience to heat, and providing a healthy indoor environment. These alternatives are more than a technological issue and help to reframe coolth as an attribute and not a commodity. This editorial introduces the themes and individual papers in this special issue. It explores the implications of these alternative solutions across a range of issues: health and wellbeing; air quality; heat stress; technical/design solutions; economics and equity; climate change; social expectations and practices; policy and regulation; supply chain and procurement; education and training. Recommendations for change involve policy and regulation, construction industry business models, redefining the design decision process, improving performance and feedback, and updating workforce skills and capabilities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Alternatives to air-conditioning: policies, design, technologies, behaviours |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/bc.256 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.5334/bc.256 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | COPYRIGHT: © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. Buildings and Cities is a peerreviewed open access journal published by Ubiquity Press. |
| Keywords: | adaptation; air-conditioning; climate change; cooling; design; energy demand; environmental control; passive cooling; public policy; thermal comfort |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150633 |
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