Resilient Urban Solutions
Our mission is to enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas
Climate Change adaptation
Cities, buildings and infrastructure are mostly designed for past climate and we need to prepare for future climate, otherwise there might be disastrous consequences. Therefore, besides climate change mitigation, societies should think of climate change adaptation. This requires quantifying the probable impacts of climate change and providing sustainable solutions that guarantee reliable performance buildings, infrastructure and urban systems.
We have our pioneering methods to investigates impacts of climate change and quantify the effectiveness of adaptation strategies in urban areas. We have our cutting-edge approaches that use the most recent future climate projections and considers several complex interactions, influencing factors, uncertainties, climate scenarios and extreme weather events.
Climate Change resileince
A successful transition towards sustainability needs adequate consideration of climate change including extreme events to ensure the reliable performance of buildings and urban systems in the long run. Climate resilience is an emerging concept that is increasingly used to represent the durability and stable performance against extreme climate events. However, there are major limitation in the state-of-the-art to adequately design and prepare urban systems to satisfactorily address plausible extreme climate events. Furthermore, the complexity of the climate and urban system models and the mismatch between their temporal and spatial resolutions are the major limitations in linking these models. In this regard, we have developed our pioneering approaches to address the limitation and assess the climate resilient of urban systems.
Relevant publications
Here are some works that we have published about impact assessment of climate change:
- Nik, V.M., Perera, A.T.D., Chen, D., “Towards climate resilient urban energy systems: A review”, Na-tional Science Review. doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa134.
- Perera, A.T.D., Nik, V.M., Chen, D., Scartezzini, J.-L., Hong, T., “Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems”, Nature Energy 2020;5:150–9. doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0558-0.
- Perera, A.T.D., Wickramasinghea, Nik, V.M., Scartezzini, J.-L., “Introducing reinforcement learning to the energy system design process”. Appl Energy 2020;262:114580. doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114580.
- Javanroodi, K., Nik, V.M., “Interactions between extreme climate and urban morphology: Investigat-ing the evolution of extreme wind speeds from mesoscale to microscale”, Urban Climate, 2020; 31:100544. doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100544.
- Perera, A.T.D., Nik, V.M., Wickramasinghea, Scartezzini, J.-L., “Redefining energy system flexibility for designing distributed energy system”, Applied Energy, 253:113572, Nov. 2019, doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113572.