{"id":223105,"date":"2025-10-08T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/climate-smart-housing-design-helps-cities-beat-the-heat"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:19:46","slug":"climate-smart-housing-design-helps-cities-beat-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/climate-smart-housing-design-helps-cities-beat-the-heat","title":{"rendered":"Climate-smart housing design helps cities beat the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/climate-smart-housing-design-helps-cities-beat-the-heat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Painting walls in light colors, insulating roofs, choosing medium-sized windows, and aligning buildings to the sun\u2019s path may seem like simple choices. But they could provide powerful defenses against climate change for millions of people in the world\u2019s most vulnerable regions.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the message of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0378778825010072\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, appearing in the journal <i>Energy and Buildings<\/i>, which identifies low-cost, climate-smart design strategies as crucial for future housing in Latin America\u2019s rapidly warming cities.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers used computer simulations to test how various climate-resilient building projects would perform under current and projected climate conditions in five major cities\u2014Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo, in Brazil, Santiago (Chile), Bogot\u00e1 (Colombia), and Lima (Peru).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting walls in light colors, insulating roofs, choosing medium-sized windows, and aligning buildings to the sun\u2019s path may seem like simple choices. But they could provide powerful defenses against climate change for millions of people in the world\u2019s most vulnerable regions. That\u2019s the message of a study, appearing in the journal Energy and Buildings, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}