Cooling Singapore amid climate change
8 Aug | At the CLC lecture, Professor Gerhard Schmitt will speak about mitigating urban heat island effect and improving outdoor thermal comfort, and Cooling Singapore's interface with Singapore's development.
As global temperatures rise, the impacts of climate change and how to make Singapore more resilient are of increasing concern to Singapore. At the CLC lecture external page Building & Cooling Singapore in an Era of Climate Change, organised by the Centre For Liveable Cities, Professor Gerhard Schmitt will speak about Cooling Singapore.
He will explain the goals of mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect and improving outdoor thermal comfort, putting the spotlight on how the research interfaces with Singapore’s development plan.
Panellists:
- Professor Dr Gerhard Schmitt, Founding Director of Singapore-ETH Centre and lead principal investigator of Cooling Singapore
- Ms Adele Tan, Group Director (Strategic Planning), Urban Redevelopment Authority
- Ms Yan Yan, Director, Campus Planning, Woodland Health Campus
- Associate Professor Dr Winston Chow, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Singapore Management University and principal investigator of Cooling Singapore
The Cooling Singapore project is led by the Singapore-ETH Centre, in partnership with the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), TUMCREATE (established by the Technical University of Munich), National University of Singapore, and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). The project is supported by the external page Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) under the National Research Foundation.