A5055206068- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Energy Load and Power Forecasting
- Climate variability and models
The University of Sydney
2017-2024
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2023-2024
University of Tasmania
2024
UNSW Sydney
2021-2023
Centre for Safe Air
2019-2023
Australian Government
2023
National Health and Medical Research Council
2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021
Ruhr University Bochum
2021
National University of Singapore
2021
Abstract Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major contemporary challenge that substantially impacts livability sustainability. Overheating represents multifaceted threat to the well‐being, performance, health of individuals as well energy efficiency economy cities, it influenced complex interactions between building, city, scale climates. In recent decades, extensive discipline‐specific research has characterized heat assessed its implications on...
In humid subtropical climates with a green environment, windows are the most dominant envelope elements affecting indoor visual and thermal comfort connection to outdoors. This research aims optimize dynamic external shading system for north-facing in Sydney, Australia, which acts automatically eight predefined scenarios response conditions. The method of investigation was simulating multi-objective optimization approach using Non-dominated Sorting Particle Swarm Optimization (NSPSO) assess...
Overheating is widespread across diverse building typologies. In the context of global warming, it becoming increasingly problematic in naturally-ventilated dwellings which air-conditioning not an available option. Whilst CIBSE TM59 offers most widely used overheating assessment criteria for homes, have been rigorously tested against real-world observations made beyond temperate regions UK. With aim to examine applicability subtropical residential contexts, statistical analysis was performed...
Daylight penetration significantly affects building thermal-daylighting performance, and serve a dual function of permitting sunlight creating pleasant indoor environment. More recent attention has focused on the provision daylight in rear part spaces designing sustainable buildings. Passive Anidolic Daylighting Systems (ADS) are effective tools for collection redistribution towards back room. As affordable low-maintenance systems, they can provide alleviate problem over-provision near...
In the face of escalating global temperatures and extreme climate challenges, this study addresses pressing concern overheating within homes by introducing a new Comfort Rating Method. Our approach presents departure from conventional norms in domain thermal comfort modelling incorporating Effective Temperature index (ET*), which considers not only air mean radiant temperature but also humidity, essential for holistic assessment. Moreover, we extend our model to account indoor movement,...
Recent climatic trends of two nearby stations in Sydney were examined terms hourly ambient air temperature and wind direction for the time period 1999–2019. A reference was set monthly number cooling (CDH) heating (HDH) degree hours that temperatures exceeded 24 °C (T24) or below 14 (T14), parameters affecting not only energy demands but also quality life. The linked to dominant synoptic conditions local phenomena: sea breeze inland winds. results indicated both areas had higher mean HDH...
Wind tunnel testing and thermal comfort simulations were conducted to explore the performance of a wind-tower in typical, medium-density apartment building located subtropical Sydney. The research design consisted three phases; first, wind experiments measured pressure distributions over surface four-storey model scaled at 1:100. Secondly, hourly indoor air velocities predicted for six warmest months Sydney using Typical Meteorological Year 2013. Finally, evaluated cooling potential towers....
We aimed to determine the associations between ambient air pollution, specifically particulate matter less than or equal 10 microns and 2.5 (PM10 PM2.5 respectively) ozone (O3), stillbirths. analysed all singleton births 20–42 weeks gestation in metropolitan Sydney, Australia, from 1997 2012. implemented logistic regression assess pollutants stillbirth for each trimester entire pregnancy. Over study period, there were 967,694 live 4287 Mean levels of PM10, O3 pregnancy 17.9 µg/m3, 7.1 µg/m3...
Climate change significantly impacts building performance. Indoor comfort, energy demand, carbon emissions, and maintenance costs vary according to the local climate. This research has been conducted, investigate, simulate, analyze, compare discuss potential impact of climate on thermal heating cooling needs in a hospital, hotel, school residential home located top 8 deserts coldest regions world. Simulations were conducted for future using ten (10) general circulation models (GCM) based...
Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major contemporary challenge which substantially impacts livability sustainability. Overheating represents multi-faceted threat to well-being, performance, health of individuals as well the energy efficiency economy cities, it influenced complex interactions between building, city, scale climates. In recent decades, extensive discipline-specific research has characterized heat assessed its implications on human...
Earth and Space Science Open Archive This preprint has been submitted to is under consideration at Earth's Future. ESSOAr a venue for early communication or feedback before peer review. Data may be preliminary.Learn more about preprints preprintOpen AccessYou are viewing an older version [v1]Go new versionIntegrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human LifeAuthorsNeginNazarianiDScottKrayenhoffiDBenjaminBechteliDDavidHondulaRiccardoPaoliniiDJennifer...
Overheating is widespread across diverse building typologies. In the context of global warming, it becoming increasingly problematic in naturally-ventilated dwellings which air-conditioning not an available option. Whilst CIBSE TM59 (UK) offers most widely used overheating assessment criteria for homes, there has been scant scientific validation against real-world observations. With aim to validate criteria, statistical analysis was performed on thermal comfort field data collected from 162...