RT Journal Article
T1 Impact of Global Warming in Subtropical Climate Buildings: Future Trends and Mitigation Strategies
A1 Videras Rodríguez, Marta
A1 Sánchez Cordero, Antonio
A1 Gómez Melgar, Sergio Jesús
A1 Andújar Márquez, José Manuel
AB The growing concern about global climate change extends to different professional sectors.In the building industry, the energy consumption of buildings becomes a factor susceptible to changedue to the direct relationship between the outside temperature and the energy needed to cool andheat the internal space. This document aims to estimate the energy consumption of a MinimumEnergy Building (MEB) in different scenarios—past, present, and future—in the subtropical climatetypical of seaside cities in Southern Spain. The building energy consumption has been predictedusing dynamic building energy simulation software tools. Projected climate data were obtained infour time periods (Historical, the 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s), based on four emission scenarios definedby the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): B1, B2, A2, A1F1. This methodology hasbeen mathematically complemented to obtain data in closer time frames (2025 and 2030). In addition,different mitigation strategies have been proposed to counteract the impact of climate change in thedistant future. The different energy simulations carried on show clearly future trends of growth intotal building energy consumption and how current building designers could be underestimatingthe problem of air conditioning needs in the subtropical zone. Electricity demand for heating isexpected to decrease almost completely, while electricity demand for cooling increases considerably.The changes predicted are significant in all scenarios and periods, concluding an increase of between28–51% in total primary energy consumption during the building life cycle. The proposed mitigationstrategies show improvements in energy demands in a range of 11–14% and they could be consideredin the initial stages of project design or incorporated in the future as the impact of climate changebecomes more pronounced.
PB MDPI
SN 1996-1073
YR 2020
FD 2020-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19484
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19484
LA eng
NO Videras Rodríguez, M., Sánchez Cordero, A., Gómez Melgar, S., & Andújar Márquez, J. M. (2020). Impact of Global Warming in Subtropical Climate Buildings: Future Trends and Mitigation Strategies. Energies, 13(23), 6188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en1323618
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026