Thermal and climatic zoning for construction in the southern part of Chile Verichev, Konstantin Salimova, Alisa Carpio Martínez, Manuel This article is part of the special issue “17th EMS Annual Meeting: European Conference for Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2017”. It is a result of the EMS Annual Meeting: European Conference for Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2017, Dublin, Ireland, 4–8 September 2017. This paper presents the results of the updated boundaries of thermal zones in the tree southern regions of Chile, based on the method of heating degrees-days according to hourly temperature measurements at meteorological stations in the last decade. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning of Chile has not updated these boundaries since 1999. Using the Climatic Severity index method, the relative energy consumption of dwellings was analyzed for cooling and heating in summer and winter periods, respectively. The analysis revealed that, within the limits of a single thermal zone, the energy costs for cooling in the summer period of the same house may differ by 50 %. 2019-02-01T12:25:08Z 2019-02-01T12:25:08Z 2018-05 journal article Verichev, Konstantin; Salimova, Alisa; Carpio, Manuel. Thermal and climatic zoning for construction in the southern part of Chile. Adv. Sci. Res., 15, 63–69, 2018. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/54654] 2198-3844 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/54654 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España Lucien Wald