Infrastructure, Design & Changing Climate
Goal
Led by Ph.D. student Gesangyangi, we evaluate how climate change will impact building design requirements, such as heating and cooling specifications.
Objectives
Our approach to this project includes several steps:
Recalculate the climate design chart (2013 edition) produced by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
Use climate models to produce temperature and precipitation related design conditions for Madison, WI under different warming scenarios
Expand this analysis to multiple cities in the eastern United States
Analyze how the change of design conditions will affect electricity use
Research Outcomes
Developed future climate design conditions over Madison, Wisconsin under two different climate change scenarios called, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5
Rescaled historical hourly temperature to future hourly temperature for 16 cities in the eastern US