Decision support for building adaptation in a low-carbon climate change future: the Low Carbon Futures project

The Low Carbon Futures (LCF) project has combined detailed building simulation and future climate projections to provide a series of outputs, including an overheating risk tool, for assessing the future performance of buildings in the UK. The LCF tool incorporates the 2009 UK Climate Projections, and generates multi-climate building performance estimations from just a single simulation output (as might be produced by conventional building software, such as IES-VE or TAS). The result, for given climate scenarios, is a spectrum of probabilities suggesting how that specific building might perform in the future, thus helping the user choose adaptation technologies that might reduce the risk of overheating or cooling failure.