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: Received: 6 February 2024 / Approved: 6 February 2024 / Online: 6 February 2024 (12:05:22 CET)
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ONUS, E.L.; Chinyio, E.; Daniel, E.I. The Impacts of Climatic Features on Residents and Residences: A UK Study. Preprints2024, 2024020367. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0367.v1
ONUS, E.L.; Chinyio, E.; Daniel, E.I. The Impacts of Climatic Features on Residents and Residences: A UK Study. Preprints 2024, 2024020367. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0367.v1
ONUS, E.L.; Chinyio, E.; Daniel, E.I. The Impacts of Climatic Features on Residents and Residences: A UK Study. Preprints2024, 2024020367. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0367.v1
APA Style
ONUS, E.L., Chinyio, E., & Daniel, E.I. (2024). The Impacts of Climatic Features on Residents and Residences: A UK Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0367.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
ONUS, E.L., Ezekiel Chinyio and Emmanuel Itodo Daniel. 2024 "The Impacts of Climatic Features on Residents and Residences: A UK Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0367.v1
Abstract
Introductions- Liveable housing environments face the menace of global climate change. In-frastructure (including buildings and houses) continuously experiences significant impacts ex-acerbated by natural variability in climate. The study addressed how climate change impacts the resilience of residential buildings, increased maintenance frequency, and the wellbeing and comfort of residents in UK residential buildings.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study used deductive reasoning and an empirical epis-temological methodology as a data-collecting basis to evaluate primary information obtained via a questionnaire. Regression analysis was ultimately employed to analyse the collected da-ta.
Result/Discussions: The findings show a significant relationship between climate change and the wellbeing of the occupants of UK residential buildings. Also, the results show that social wellbeing is more important to the occupants than mental and physical wellbeing. It reveals that residential buildings in the UK suffer the cost of maintenance due to continuous reduc-tion in the building fabric's resilience to the impacts of climate change; for instance, a recent increase in rainfall/storms results in unprecedented flooding, which continues to damage the UK residential building fabrics.
Keywords
UK; impacts of climate change; resilience of building fabrics; residential buildings; deterioration of building fabrics; occupants
Subject
Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction
Copyright:
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