Dossier Hot climates
#13 - Urban planning in cities with hot and dry climates: the case of Cairo
Despite the awareness of the need to focus on sustainable urban development in the 1980s, Egypt faces a lack of convergence (...)
#12 Urban planning and constraints under the hot climate in Brazil
With a significant rural exodus and a territory very sensitive to the effects of global warming, Brazil must reorganize the (...)
#11 Urban planning and development in tropical climates: the example of French Guiana
As the example of French Guiana illustrates, sustainable construction in a warm climate is not only a technical challenge (...)
#10 Energy: a major challenge for sustainable building in the Antilles
Energy consumption is growing rapidly in the Caribbean, both as a result of population growth and the very strong economic (...)
#9 Construction with raw soil in Senegal
In Senegal, the construction sector is booming. Today, concrete is used on construction sites, but although it is produced (...)
#8 The use of typha in Senegal, interview with Ernest Dione
In Senegal, 75% of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are generated by building activities. With strong urban (...)
#7 Development strategy for the "tropical built" sector
With the "BIOREV Tropics" project, Nomadeis, BioBuild Concept and the Laboratoire d'Écologie Urbaine de La Réunion, have (...)
#6 Construction of local building materials sectors: a social as well as an economic challenge
The impact of building materials on climate change is a major challenge for the construction sector, as they are responsible (...)
#5 Biomimetism: a solution for building in hot climates?
In more than 4 billion years, Nature has acquired certain know-how in design. So why not apply it to human productions? This (...)
#4 Building bioclimatic in tropical climate and Reunion Island
Building bioclimatic infrastructures in Reunion Island and, more generally, in the DROMs and COMs (formerly DOM-TOM) requires (...)
#3 Bioclimatism, standardization and local reality: an impossible equation to solve?
The bioclimatic approach is particularly suitable for construction in tropical or hot climates. With more than thirty years (...)
#2 Hot or tropical climate: a clear but difficult definition
What could be more natural than to define what is meant by a warm climate before fully initiating this dossier. Brahmanand (...)
#1 Edito - Sustainable construction in hot climates
The ambition of this dossier is to gather a series of testimonies that illustrate, in all their dimensions, the challenges (...)