The Effects of Future Climate Change on Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings in China
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required to investigate optimum building standards for
each different climate region in China, which are also
economically feasible. This study has not taken the ef-
fects of urban heat islands, which will make the quest for
producing low-energy buildings even more challenging.
6. Acknowledgements
D.C. would like to thank Dr John Parkinson of the Uni-
versity of Manchester for extracting the HadCM3 files
for the grid boxes 1952, 2337 and 2623.
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