The Basics of Urban Cooling

Associate Professor Sebastian Pfautsch, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Australia

Urban overheating is a global phenomenon. Driven by densification and expansion of cities the phenomenon is accelerated by regional climate change impacts. In this talk, Associate Professor Pfautsch will explain how the issue of urban overheating is tackled at Sydney Olympic Park. His project, called SIMPaCT (Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns), combines environmental sensing, machine learning and geo-spatial modelling to maximise transpiration cooling, turning a 42-hectare parkland into a natural air conditioning system.

All welcome.

This visit was made possible through a Fellowship awarded by the University of Surrey’s Institute of Advanced Studies.