Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool for Global Cities
Addressing the existential threat of climate change is critical to sustain the earth and prolong human life on it. Recent spate of unprecedented increase in extreme weather events has resulted in damage to lives and property, raising fundamental questions about our level of preparedness to combat them. Urban environments are heterogenous and complex, dominated by buildings responsible for majority of carbon (CO2) emissions. Cities consist of buildings which release CO2 directly when they use equipment that relies on combustion. Retrofitting the buildings with carbon-free utilities and infrastructure is the key to achieving lower emissions in cities and urban environments. However, the socio-economic and structural organization of buildings in global cities may present challenges in the implementation of decarbonization plans. The age and design of buildings, electrical capacity, thermal distribution, demographic characteristics, income levels, type of dwelling, and ownership are important spatial variables that must be input and modeled in a geographic information system (GIS) environment for developing an Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool (IUDPT). Open-source datasets may be utilized to build an IUDPT that could be used in the implementation of decarbonization of cities. The City of New York has embarked on an ambitious program of decarbonizing buildings that aims to reduce CO2 by 2050. We present a methodology to ingest, analyze, and model a wide range of open-source datasets for developing the IUDPT. The interactive model will enable practitioners and policymakers to achieve a realistic plan for implementing a holistic building decarbonization plan.
Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool for Global Cities
Addressing the existential threat of climate change is critical to sustain the earth and prolong human life on it. Recent spate of unprecedented increase in extreme weather events has resulted in damage to lives and property, raising fundamental questions about our level of preparedness to combat them. Urban environments are heterogenous and complex, dominated by buildings responsible for majority of carbon (CO2) emissions. Cities consist of buildings which release CO2 directly when they use equipment that relies on combustion. Retrofitting the buildings with carbon-free utilities and infrastructure is the key to achieving lower emissions in cities and urban environments. However, the socio-economic and structural organization of buildings in global cities may present challenges in the implementation of decarbonization plans. The age and design of buildings, electrical capacity, thermal distribution, demographic characteristics, income levels, type of dwelling, and ownership are important spatial variables that must be input and modeled in a geographic information system (GIS) environment for developing an Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool (IUDPT). Open-source datasets may be utilized to build an IUDPT that could be used in the implementation of decarbonization of cities. The City of New York has embarked on an ambitious program of decarbonizing buildings that aims to reduce CO2 by 2050. We present a methodology to ingest, analyze, and model a wide range of open-source datasets for developing the IUDPT. The interactive model will enable practitioners and policymakers to achieve a realistic plan for implementing a holistic building decarbonization plan.
Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool for Global Cities
GIScience & Geo-environmental Modelling
Rahman, Atiqur (Herausgeber:in) / Sen Roy, Shouraseni (Herausgeber:in) / Talukdar, Swapan (Herausgeber:in) / Shahfahad (Herausgeber:in) / Bhaskaran, Sunil (Autor:in) / Berg, Vladimir (Autor:in) / Bhatia, Sanjiv (Autor:in) / Kumar, Jayant (Autor:in) / Collins, Andrella (Autor:in)
04.03.2023
31 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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