Pre-Conference Workshop

Pre-conference workshops are organized for Sunday, 9th Dec 2018, the day before the Conference. If interested, please register online at the same time you register the conference via the ConfTool registration system. Below is the workshop details:

Location: Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Minimum participation requirement/workshop: 10 nos.
Fee/workshop: HK$500 (~USD64)
Cancellation and refund: There may be occasions when cancellations are made due to the failure of the workshop to meet a miumum participation requirement, or other unforeseen event. If the organiser cancels the workshop in its entirety, registered participants will receive a 100% refund in Hong Kong Dollars. Bank charges to be borne by the participants.

Lecturer: Prof. Lutz Katzschner (Meteorologist University Kassel, Germany)
Contributions from: Dr. Farah Kanani (Meteorlogist University Hannover, Germany), Prof Günther Gross (University Hannover, Germany) & Dip.Ing. Sebastian Kupski (Urban Planner, INKEK)
Time & Date: 2:00 pm - 5:15 pm, 9th Dec 2018, Sunday
Venue: Room 507, 5/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)

Synopsis:
Urban climate studies are produced worldwide with different data sets and different methods. Investigations use land use urban structures, meteorological data for their analysis. During the course methods and tools will be discussed how to create an urban climate map and an urban climate recommendation map. Urban structure types, land use data, local climate zones and other are combined with models and measurements. The course is held in knowledge of the problems in urban development. This is concentrated in a higher density but also in a higher areal use of free land. Therefore heat and ventilation has to be covered in an aerial distribution. The effect of their interaction in different climate conditions will be presented.  Based on german guidelines on how to conduct urban climatic maps (VDI 3787 Bl.1) and on climate change and city planning (VDI 3787 Bl.8) working methods and working tools are presented. How to create analysis and recommendation maps in different climates. The course will organize the link between planners, architects and scientist of urban climate.

Schedule:

Lecturers: Prof. Evyatar Erell, Dr. Bin Zhou, Dr. Aviva Peeters (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Time & Date: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, 9th Dec 2018, Sunday
Venue: Room 503, 5/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)

Synopsis:
Vegetation may play a central role in adapting the urban environment to two important features of the local climate: Temperature and precipitation. Flooding is experienced regularly in many cities around the world, because storm water infrastructure is inadequate; because of changes in land cover that result in more surface runoff; or because of more intense rain related to climate change. Upgrading drainage is costly and in many cases impractical, but vegetation – in the form of green roofs, swales, or parks can reduce runoff and moderate peak flows. The same vegetation may have an important role in mitigating extreme heat, if appropriately planned and located. However, current landscape and engineering practice is haphazard and poorly integrated. Vegetation is planted without regard to where it may yield the greatest benefit, and often with insufficient regard to available water resources. The workshop will introduce an integrated methodology for analyzing storm water runoff in existing or planned urban areas, modelling microclimatic conditions in the same neighborhoods, identifying the most effective landscaping interventions and assessing their costs and expected benefits.

Schedule (comprise three 50-minute sessions, with two 15-minute breaks):

Workshop 3 - WUDAPT Level 1&2

Part 1:  W12 Overview and Specific details on W12 Methodology
Part 2:  WUDAPT based WRF & ENVI-met model applications

Lecturers: Prof. Gerald Mills (University College Dublin, Ireland), Prof. Dan Aliaga (Purdue University, USA), Dr. Jason Ching (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Dr. Valery Masson (Meteo France), Prof. Jimmy Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Prof. Denise Duarte (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Prof. Evyatar Erell (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Prof. Ren Chao (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Time & Date: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, 9th Dec 2018, Sunday
Venue: Room 503, 5/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)

Synopsis:
This first PLEA-WUDAPT workshop will focus on specific collaborative activities initiated at PLEA 2017 Edinburgh.   In this one day workshop, we introduce and review (1) the methodology of WUDAPT’s form and function urban morphological data generation developments based on WUDAPT’s innovative portal-based Digital Synthetic City (DSC) tool that mimic 3-D Google type satellite imagery in digital format, and (2) WRF and ENVI-met model enabling application capabilities using WUDAPT.   Activity (1) assures the generation of spatially representative UCPs for each LCZ throughout the urban area and alternatively, a means to produce spatial fields of gridded UCPs, both achieved with practical procedures that yield city specific UCPs by appropriate customizations of the DSC.  This is achieved based upon recognition and adoption of varying building and architecture typologies that reflect the unique characteristics of each urban area’s varying local climate zones and also assurances of accuracy achieved with universal consistency. PLEA expertise and collaborations in TESTBED activities further assures the generation of form and function modeling parameters are regionally customized. The W12 scope and bases complements WUDAPT Level 0 encompassing cities worldwide with a common platform and protocol (www.wudapt.org).   Efforts to integrate the WUDAPT to WRF and the ENVI-met tool, the latter widely used by architectural communities are also discussed.  Further, W12 will facilitate improvements to WRF simulations providing unique spatial fields of UCP and the bases for improving the specific range of urban canopy values for each urban area thus updating WUDAPT Level “0” LCZ Urban Canopy tables. 

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