Location and Climate Selection

Initially we explored the idea of conducting studies in three completely different climates which were as follows.

Dijon, France: Dijon has a temperate climate which experiences a wide range of temperature variation throughout the year with hot summers and cold winters. Temperature varies by around 40°C between summer and winter conditions.

Cairo, Egypt: Cairo has a hot desert climate, and is extremely hot during the day and experiences cool, even freezing conditions at night due to important solar radiation loss.

Singapore : Humid subtropical climate, hot and humid climate

After some initial investigation work and research studies, we concluded that we would conduct our studies based in a hot desert climate.  Hot climates require large cooling requirements throughout the year and after deciding on the different dynamic technologies we would analyze it was decided that this type of climate would benefit the most from dynamic shading devices and smart glazing as opposed to a cooler climate. Our chosen location was to be Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  The maximum daily temperature in Abu Dhabi can vary from 28 °C to 47°C and so has large cooling requirements throughout the entire.

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