[Featured in Press] ‘I Don’t Want to Go Home.’ Europe’s Housing Is Not Heat-Ready

Olivia Rudgard (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:)

🎙 Our article has been featured in the Bloomberg News! We feel both humbled and elated to see the impact of our research. Our commitment to the 🌍🔜🌡️🥵 climate change agenda and our efforts in promoting and producing knowledge on 🚨overheating risks on 🌍 all scales of the 🌇 built environment, with the collaboration 🤲 with the International Energy Agency Annex 80 team members has been fruitful, which I am deeply proud to be a part of and motivated to keep contributing to its success. In our original article, we strongly criticize the 🦕 EU 🇪🇺 (including the EPBD) for not protecting their citizens 🥵 and failing to develop a harmonized climate-sensitive calculation method for ☀️ overheating risk estimation in 🏚️ residential buildings.

Across vast swaths of the globe, nights are warming faster than days. In many European countries, nights when the temperature never falls below 28C are known as “🌇 tropical nights.” A succession of them limits the body’s ability to recover from daytime heat. Humans’ sleep cycle is key for regulating their internal temperature, and studies have found a link between heat-induced sleep disruptions and excess deaths, particularly from stroke.

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The Bloomberg team contacted me in August 2023, and I had a conversation on our recently published article on overheating in European residential buildings. Since we published our popular paper, we have been interviewed by several news agencies and researchers. If interested in 📢 read the original 📄 article, click the link: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/302756

📝 Citation: Attia, S., Benzidane, C., Rahif, R., Amaripadath, D., Hamdy, M., Holzer, P., ... (2023). Overheating calculation methods, criteria, and indicators in European regulation for residential buildings. Energy and Buildings, 292, 113170.

This paper is the most popular paper we published in 2023 and required more than two years of work. Special thanks to Olivia Rudgard from Bloomberg for the preparation and development of the news article.

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