Smart City Living: Cooling Singapore
3 Nov | Dr Kristina Orehounig will present Cooling Singapore and how the Digital Urban Climate Twin could help planners tackle the urban heat at the 'Smart City Living' event at the World Expo.
Like many tropical cities, Singapore is vulnerable to the effects of the Urban Heat Island (UHI), exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global climate change. Tackling urban heat is a complex challenge, with implications for planning, energy, transportation, building, and patterns of consumption. The approach, therefore, must be based upon sound scientific knowledge, in partnership with governmental and industry stakeholders.
In the presentation and panel 'Smart City Living' hosted by the Singapore Pavilion at the World Expo, Dr Kristina Orehounig, Lead Principal Investigator of the Cooling Singapore project at the Singapore-ETH Centre, will present how Cooling Singapore sets out to mitigate the UHI effect by furthering the scientific knowledge required for climate-sensitive design of the urban environment.
To improve liveability and well-being of residents and sustainability of Singapore as a whole, the team is developing a digital urban climate twin (DUCT) of Singapore, which allows planners and government agencies to simulate various scenarios in order to identify suitable measures to mitigate urban heat. Dr Orehounig will present the concept of the DUCT and showcase its potential applications.
Dr Orehounig will be joined by Tony Khoo, CEO of EM Services Group and Omar Saeed, Director of ST Engineering in this hybrid session to jointly address how digital smart city solutions are being used to address the most pressing challenges in urban development.
'Smart City Living' is part of the Singapore Business Series hosted by the Singapore pavilion at the World Expo Dubai 2020. For more infomation, please refer to the external page official event web page.