Publications | Built Environment

Key publications from the High Performance Architecture research cluster.

Selected books

Aghamohammadi N and Santamouris M (Eds). 2024. Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating: The Impact of Warmer Cities on Climate, Energy, Health, Environmental; Quality, Economy, and Quality of Life, https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780443135026/mitigation-and-adaptation-of-urban-overheating.
Prasad D, Kuru A, Oldfield P, Ding L, Dave M, Noller C, He B. 2023, Delivering on the Climate Emergency: Towards a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-6371-1.
R. Paolini & M. Santamouris (Eds). 2023. Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands, Elsevier. 339 pages. ISBN: 978-0-12-818977-1, https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128189771/urban-climate-change-and-heat-islands.
Oldfield P, 2019, The Sustainable Tall Building A Design Primer, Routledge, London / New York, https://www.routledge.com/The-Sustainable-Tall-Building-A-Design-Primer/Oldfield/p/book/9781138905948.
Santamouris M (Editor). 2019. Cooling Energy Solutions for Buildings and Cities, https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10901#t=aboutBook.
Santamouris M. 2019, Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero, https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128114179/minimizing-energy-consumption-energy-poverty-and-global-and-local-climate-change-in-the-built-environment-innovating-to-zero.

M. Santamouris, L. Ding, F. Fiorito, P. Oldfield, Paul Osmond, R. Paolini, D. Prasad, A. Synnefa. 2017. Passive and active cooling for the outdoor built environment – Analysis and assessment of the cooling potential of mitigation technologies using performance data from 220 large scale projects, Solar Energy, Volume 154, Pages 14-33, ISSN 0038-092X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.12.006. (265 citations).
M. Santamouris, R. Paolini, S. Haddad, A. Synnefa, S. Garshasbi, G. Hatvani-Kovacs, K. Gobakis, K. Yenneti, K. Vasilakopoulou, J. Feng, K. Gao, G. Papangelis, A. Dandou, G. Methymaki, P. Portalakis, M. Tombrou. 2020. Heat mitigation technologies can improve sustainability in cities. An holistic experimental and numerical impact assessment of urban overheating and related heat mitigation strategies on energy consumption, indoor comfort, vulnerability and heat-related mortality and morbidity in cities, Energy and Buildings, Volume 217, ISSN 0378-7788, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110002. (83 citations)
Haddad, S., Zhang, W., Paolini, R. et al. 2024. Quantifying the energy impact of heat mitigation technologies at the urban scale. Nat Cities 1, 62–72 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-023-00005-5. (1 citation, as just published recently)

C Allen, P Oldfield, SH Teh, T Wiedmann, S Langdon, M Yu, J Yang. 2022. Modelling ambitious climate mitigation pathways for Australia's built environment. Sustainable Cities and Society 77, 103554. (35 citations)

For more information about the cluster, please contact:

A/ Professor Lan Ding

Convenor, High Performance Architecture Research Cluster, School of Built Environment, UNSW