Climate Modelling for Resilient Urban Planning
18 May | Prof. Yuan Chao will discuss the interoperability between urban climate modelling, resilient planning, and design practice at the ETH Risk Centre-Future Resilient Systems (FRS) webinar.
Climate resilient urban planning and design is challenging and essential in dealing with climate change and urbanisation, which often have huge uncertainty.
Singapore has warmed notably since the mid-1970s when rapid urbanisation took place, at a rate of 0.25 degrees Celsius per decade according to the Meteorological Service Singapore. This rate is higher than the global average rate. If the rate of current urban development remains unchanged, local warming will lead to a rise in demand for electricity for cooling and an increased risk of residents suffering from heat stress.
At the third webinar of the ETH Risk Centre-Future Resilient System lunch webinar series, Asst Prof. Yuan Chao, module leader and principal investigator of the Climate Resilience in High-Density Cities module at the Future Resilient Systems programme, will discuss the interoperability between urban climate modelling and planning/design practice for future resilience. He will present on the impact projection of climate change at the regional scale, as well as urban scale modelling and planning strategies towards building scale design principle. He will then introduce a systematic approach to support real-time modelling and pre-emptive urban planning and design.
About the speaker
Dr Yuan is a Presidential Young Professor at the Department of Architecture, NUS. He is the founder and a Principal Investigator of the NUS Urban Climate Design Lab. His research interests focus on climate-sensitive urban planning and design for sustainable and resilient cities. His research topics cover urban wind environment, traffic-related and transboundary air pollution, anthropogenic heat, passive cooling technologies, and urban greenery. His goal is to support and develop practical planning and design in real life.
Dr Yuan currently leads his research team – in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich. He is the module leader of Climate Resilience in High-Density Cities module at FRS.
Dr Yuan serves as Associate Editor for Urban Climate (Elsevier) and Editorial Board Member of Landscape and Urban Planning (Elsevier). His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, book chapters, as well as a self-authored book.
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