[Bldg-sim] Urban Climate Simulation in the Cloud this Thursday

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Urban Climate Simulation on a High-Performance Cloud



Thursday June 16 at 12:30 p.m. ET


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Description

Urban architects and engineers need to design expanding cities that are resilient and healthy under existing and future climate scenarios. However, testing the climate related health performance of proposed urban developments remains challenging.

Klimaat's (http://www.klimaat.ca) urban climate simulation (UCS) evaluates climate performance of city development based on its form, surface characteristics and ecology. It generates urban climate maps to analyse performance of buildings or neighbourhoods against such metrics as perceived temperature, wind ventilation and solar shading characteristics. Explore how urban form, surface characteristics, and ecology inform urban climate and health issues like heat related mortality or wind dispersion of air pollutants.

UCS uses a high-performance cloud computing platform (https://parallelworks.com) that allows the process to scale massively on parallel computing clusters for high resolution, fast and remotely accessible iterative design.


Presenters

Meiring Beyers, Ph.D., Co-founder Klimaat Consulting & Innovation, Guelph, Ontario, Canada -http://www.klimaat.ca
Meiring Beyers is a Co-founder of Klimaat where he consults on integration of climatic and environmental characteristics into sustainable design solutions. He has 15 years of experience in environmental physics. His work has included effects of windblown snow, integrating climate design and renewable energy technology in master planning and building climate performance design projects.

Matthew Shaxted - Founder & President, Parallel Works, Inc - Chicago, IL - https://www.parallelworks.com/
Matthew Shaxted is a civil engineer and an award-winning web user interface expert working at the intersection of parallel computation, design and the built environment. He has recently left SOM to co-found Parallel.Works (http://parallelworks.com), a startup focused on making supercomputing easy and cost effective for the architecture and engineering disciplines.


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