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Europe's buildings are designed for a climate that no longer exists—new open dataset offers a fix

The weather files engineers use to design buildings are built from decades of historical measurements. The data can be more than 30 years old. But a building designed today is expected to perform well in 2080, and ideally beyond. Researchers from Norway and Portugal have now released future meteorological data covering more than 5,000 European locations. The files are reliable projections of…

Europe's buildings are designed for a climate that no longer exists—new open dataset offers a fix

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