TY - BOOK AU - Goyal, Nishchay (PBE20226) AU - Rawal, Rajan (Guide) TI - Assessment of universal thermal climateindex in the central business district (CBD) of Ahmedabad (Softcopy is also available) U1 - MBEP TH-0068 PY - 2022/// N1 - Contents 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Background 3 1.2 Purpose statement 3 1.3 Research question 3 1.4 Research objective 3 2 Literature review 4 2.1 Selection of suitable comfort model to access outdoor thermal comfort. 4 2.2 Validation Of the Assessment of Urban Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Its Practical Application ......................................................................................................................... 5 2.3 Workflow and Simulation tool for modelling outdoor thermal comfort, UTCI. 5 2.4 Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) 6 2.5 UTCI Elements 7 2.6 Urban Weather Generator 8 3 Research methodology 9 3.1 Data gathering 10 3.2 Site selection 10 4 Procedure 10 4.1 Morphing Weather files: Urban Weather Generator (UWG) 11 4.2 Future Weather files 12 4.3 Urban Building Energy Model 12 4.3.1 Steps 12 4.3.2 3D Model: Shape file generation 13 4.3.3 Energy Model 15 5 Validation of simulation model 16 6 Results 17 6.1 UTCI: Category 21 7 Conclusion 25 7.1 Limitation 26 7.2 Future scope 26 8 Annexure 26 8.1 Script 26 8.1.1 Urban Weather Generator 26 8.1.2 UTCI 27 8.2 References 29 ER -