Low carbon climate-responsive Heating and Cooling of Cities (LoHCool)

LoHCool专注于主题T1“为不同人口密度和气候的城市地区提供经济和节能的供暖和制冷”。它直接面对的难题是在大陆性气候区提供更大的冬季和夏季舒适，同时减轻巨大比例的碳惩罚。它专注于从现有建筑存量中回收价值，其中约34亿平方米居住和工作着约5.5亿市民。这是一个高度跨学科的项目，涉及中国和英国的工程师、建筑科学家、大气科学家、建筑师和行为研究人员，他们测量了中国城市中新建筑（尤其是现有建筑）的实际性能，以调查被动和主动系统在综合设计和再工程中的使用。它关注的是中国夏季炎热/冬季寒冷的HSCW气候带中非常具有挑战性的动态变化。它的目标是通过监测、测量和测量人们的舒适度，并通过开发系统建模（包括能源模拟）来获取对建筑物中当前供暖和制冷技术和实践的深刻理解，从而改善建筑物内的生活条件和舒适度。它将借用英国的研究比较的目的，例如工作检查当前和未来的环境条件在整个国家卫生服务（NHS）医院房地产在英格兰和实际的经济机会，非常可观的，显著改善，同时节省碳在雄心勃勃的NHS目标所要求的速度。它将提出详细的实用和经济的低碳和极低碳方案，以重新设计我们将在一系列城市中确定的主要建筑类型，与当地利益相关者，承包商和建筑专业人士共同开发，探索经济和节能的低碳区域供热和供冷系统。最后，它将在当前气候、“当前”极端事件和未来气候中对它们进行测试，并将估计广泛实施的碳影响和成本。对现有库存的调查结果同样适用于新建项目，在许多方面前景更简单。

LoHCool focuses on topic T1 'Delivering economic and energy-efficient heating and cooling to city areas of different population densities and climates'. It confronts directly the conundrum of offering greater winter and summer comfort in a Continental climate zone whilst mitigating what would be a carbon penalty of prodigious proportions. It concentrates on recovering value from the existing building stock, some 3.4 Billion m2 in which dwell and work some 550 Million citizens. It is highly cross-disciplinary involving engineers, building scientists, atmospheric scientists, architects and behavioural researchers in China and UK measuring real performance in new and particularly in existing buildings in Chinese cities to investigate the use of passive and active systems within integrated design and re-engineering. It focuses on the very challenging dynamic within China's Hot Summer/Cold Winter HSCW climate zone. It aims to enable the much desired improvements in living conditions and comfort levels within buildings through developing a keen understanding of the current heating and cooling technologies and practices in buildings by monitoring, surveying and measuring people's comfort and capturing this understanding through developing systems modelling including energy simulations. It will borrow on UK research for comparative purposes, for example work examining the current and future environmental conditions within the whole National Health Service (NHS) Hospital Estate in England and the practical economic opportunities, very considerable, for significant improvement whilst saving carbon at the rate required by ambitious NHS targets. It will propose detailed practical and economic low and very low carbon options for re-engineering the dominant building types which we will identify in a series of cities, as developed with local stakeholders, contractors and building professionals, exploring economic and energy-efficient low carbon district heating and cooling systems. Finally, it will test them in the current climate, 'current' extreme events, future climates and will estimate the carbon implications and cost of widespread implementation. Findings for the existing stock will be equally applicable to new-build, in many ways a simpler prospect.