Climate Responsive Building Design

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In the face of the climate emergency there is an imperative to develop simple advisory tools for design teams across the world to encourage appropriate decision making to address impacts of the construction, maintenance, operation, and end of use of buildings relating to climate change: energy, carbon, water and biodiversity. This PhD will focus on developing hierarchies of strategic decision making to suit different climatic zones, to identify the relative impacts of design and operational decisions in relation to seasonal and diurnal variations in sunlight; temperature; air movement; humidity rain and snow. The multi method approach will include: a) questionnaires aimed at relevant building design stakeholders, b) building performance modelling, and c) multi criteria decision making analysis (MCDA) workshops to support the development of the advisory tools. The building performance modelling will include use of both case studies and building archetypes.The work will aim to provide guidance on the relevance and timing of decision making through the design and building operation process to address the key issues, with the aim of informing building clients, design teams, and users of the most important factors affecting, and affected by, these impacts in their location. The work will also identify common design approaches to suit aspects of climate categories (eg the Koppen Climate categorisation) which are independent of, and cross, country boundaries.