Climate change is leading to increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves, which elevate the risk of human thermal stress in indoor environments. These conditions can make buildings uninhabitable during extreme events and long after they have passed. Therefore, it is crucial to design future-proof buildings and systems that can withstand such shocks and mitigate their impact on human well-being. This performance is known as thermal resilience to overheating.

Currently, resilience is not considered in building design practice, and there is no existing framework in building standards to address these shocks.

This webinar will present the findings of the Flemish project ReCOver++, conducted by KU Leuven, Ghent University, Renson, Archipelago, and Arcadis Belgium. We will introduce a novel indicator for assessing the resilience of buildings and discuss an adapted workflow for designing buildings and sizing systems to ensure their resilience to overheating.

This webinar is organized by the AIVC in collaboration with venticool. The webinar is facilitated by INIVE.

AGENDA (CET)

• 14:00 | Welcome and Introduction. Hilde Breesch, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 14:05 | ReCOver++ project: wrap up. Hilde Breesch, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 14:15 | A novel indicator to assess thermal resilience of buildings to overheating, Douaa Al Asaad, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 14:30 | How to design a resilient building? Lessons learnt from an architectural view, Joost Declercq, Archipelago, Belgium
• 14:45 | Exploring the effect of different measures on thermal resilience: implications for design of HVAC systems and energy use, Debora Resta, Arcadis, Belgium
• 15:00 | Questions and answers
• 15:30 | End of Webinar

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