Urban planning has a considerable impact on the future energy efficiency of buildings and planners lack useful tools to support their decisions. This paper is intended to contribute to fill this gap by presenting a new method based on a genetic algorithm which is able to search for optimum urban...

In this paper, cooling energy needs are calculated by the steady-state methodology of the Portuguese building thermal code. After the first period of building code implementation, re-evaluation according to EN ISO 13790 is recommended in order to compare results with the dynamic simulation...