Urban Cooling Demand Austria - IRUB
Abstract
There is - worldwide and in Austria - a significantly increasing demand for building cooling. It is driven by a combination of increasing prosperity, urbanisation, demographic developments and, last but not least, climate change. At the same time, the current state of knowledge is not yet sufficient to derive concrete conclusions for politics and administration or to initiate technological innovations. Therefore, the project objective is (1) to present and quantify the future cooling demand of buildings and urban districts for Austria, (2) to support decision-makers in the development of climate protection measures and climate change adaptation strategies, and (3) to provide energy suppliers as well as technology and component manufacturers with an estimate of the cooling demand of the future. These goals will be achieved by (1) a systematic analysis of the factors that form the increasing demand for cooling, (2) a scenario analysis of the cooling demand against the background of different climate scenarios, building structures and comfort requirements, (3) a structured techno-economic technology analysis and (4) an exemplary application of the findings to five selected urban districts. Meaningful, target group-specific conclusions and recommendations for action will be developed from the results. In particular, the cooling demand scenarios will be translated into cooling demand maps.
keywords urban cooling demand cooling demand of buildings and urban districts cooling demand maps integrated spatial and energy planning
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Project staff
Lore Abart-Heriszt
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Lore Abart-Heriszt
lore.abart@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85523
Project Leader
01.09.2022 - 30.04.2024