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March 2019 - September 2023
Southeast University (China)
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September 2014 - July 2017
Southeast University (China)
Field of study
September 2008 - June 2013
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Urban green infrastructures (UGIs) play an essential role in reducing urban building energy consumption by cooling surrounding areas and shielding buildings from direct solar radiation heat gain. Although the energy-saving effect of UGIs is widely agreed upon, there is a lack of systematic knowledge about how UGI morphology affects urban building e...
Studies have shown that urban vegetation can be an effective strategy for reducing energy consumption in urban buildings by regulating the microclimate and shading solar radiation on building surfaces. However, an understanding of the potential energy savings of vegetation morphological planning at the urban scale is still lacking, particularly reg...
In order to address the increased urban heat island (UHI) effects and energy demand caused by global urbanization, it is imperative to seek sustainable urban design solutions. It is widely acknowledged that urban green infrastructure (UGI), which includes site-scale vegetation and building-integrated vegetation, influences the energy consumption of...
To address the challenges associated with the efficiency of calculating beam shadows on building exterior surfaces in dense urban contexts being low, a novel “neighbourhood shading building surfaces” determination criterion is proposed. The criterion was applied to the beam shadow calculation methods to evaluate its effectiveness in two case studie...
Studies have confirmed that urban green infrastructure (UGI) profoundly impacts urban building energy consumption by regulating urban microclimate, providing shading to buildings, and other mechanisms. This impact is largely dependent on the morphology of UGI. Although this conclusion is widely accepted there lacks a systematic approach to quantify...
The concept of net zero energy building (NZEB) has attracted worldwide attention and has the potential to achieve significant energy and emissions reductions. Various technical strategies have been demonstrated to be able to achieve the net-zero-energy target. However, this issue becomes more complex when the economic performances of these strategi...
The morphology of urban green infrastructure (UGI) will affect the quality of urban environment and the way people perceive. The three-dimensional morphological features of UGI have been proven to be the key factors to effect urban ecological environment, which have rarely been incorporated into the UGI morphology in the previous researches. In thi...
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The problem of the urban thermal environment is becoming increasingly noticeable in the process of modern urban development. The temperature patterns in central business districts can be more complicated due to the heterogeneous urban spaces and diverse building forms, which need more cross-scale research. This study investigated the correlation be...
Urban energy simulation can provide valuable information to urban planning, urban energy management, and urban emission reduction. Therefore, urban energy simulation has become an active research discipline. Various urban energy simulation methods and techniques have been developed and applied to cities on different scales. A review is conducted to...
One of the many consequences of urbanization is the expansion of cities into rural areas, which leads to the transformation of lands from natural surfaces to developed surfaces. It is widely considered an established fact that urbanization generally increases the heat island effect. The objective of this study is to understand the pattern of urban...
The number of occupants and its changing pattern over time are key information for building and urban energy simulation. However, the commonly used assumption and simplification of a fixed occupancy schedule does not reflect the complicated reality, leading to significant errors in energy simulation. Therefore, dynamic occupant density models which...
