Climate change is leading to increasingly frequent and severe heat waves, which elevate the risk of human thermal stress in indoor environments. These conditions can make buildings uninhabitable during extreme events and long after they have passed. Therefore, it is crucial to design future-proof buildings and systems that can withstand such shocks and mitigate their impact on human well-being. This performance is known as thermal resilience to overheating.

Currently, resilience is not considered in building design practice, and there is no existing framework in building standards to address these shocks.

This webinar will present the findings of the Flemish project ReCOver++, conducted by KU Leuven, Ghent University, Renson, Archipelago, and Arcadis Belgium. We will introduce a novel indicator for assessing the resilience of buildings and discuss an adapted workflow for designing buildings and sizing systems to ensure their resilience to overheating.

This webinar is organised by the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) in collaboration with Venticool. The webinar is facilitated by INIVE.