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Newsletter "FCL-G Weekly Update 13" - issued on March 28, 2024
Newsletter "FCL-G Weekly Update 13" - issued on March 28, 2024
- Our group's paper has been selected for oral presentation and poster exhibition at the Science of Cities Symposium, WCS 2024. PhD student Yuqin will also present a poster on her own research.
- PIs Christoph and Panos attended a workshop at Heatherwick Studios in London, which collated scientists and industry partners interested in the intersection of cognitive science and architecture.
- A paper led by Ayda Grisiute, former CKG researcher and ETHZ PhD student, title "An ontology-based approach for harmonizing metrics in bike network evaluations" has been submitted for review. Pieter Herthogs contributed to this work.
- A collaboration paper between POW and SUE has been accepted as poster for the WCS in June. The submission is titled "Land-use patterns and the deployment potential of distributed solar energy system in a high-density tropical city: A Singapore case study"
- Tianyu is working on the first paper
- Einar is starting to test the urban numerical model
- Weijing is starting field observations of sites in Singapore
- Research from DEN on Singapore is prominently showcased in “Climate. Knowledge. Action!”, a new permanent exhibition at the Vienna Museum for Technology and Design, which opened on March 13, 2024. The exhibition not only documents the damage but also uses a variety of examples to show that it is in the hands of policymakers, society, and everyone to take action to turn the tide.
- Thomas has been appointed as an expert member of the Holcim Academy, established by Holcim, a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions. The Academy advocates for sustainable construction, research in building methods, and education in construction and materials. It offers workshops, courses, and seminars for professionals, students, and researchers to encourage innovation and raise industry standards in construction and environmental care.
- Master student Tommaso Ferrari has started his master project "Building Stock Modelling for Urban Mining" in the group of Stefanie Hellweg. The project is supervised together with Madaster.
- Master student Nirando Bacchetta has started his master thesis "Re-Use Practices in the Construction Industry: Analysis of Material Streams from Demolition Sites" in the group of Stefanie Hellweg. The thesis is supervised together with Eberhard.
- Last week marked the start of the SWIRCULAR project! An exciting milestone that paves the way for collaborations and innovation. This partner project aims to unlock the potential of digitalisation in accelerating the transition to circular economy in the built environment.
- ESD members Aleksandra Kim and Carlo Schmid presented their work on "Building stock modelling" at the Applied Machine Learning Days conference in Lausanne this week.
- An abstract for a poster presentation at the “Data Science for the Sciences (DS4S) conference in Bern, Switzerland has been accepted. Ayca Duran is going to present her work on facade image segmentation for BIPV. The conference will take place on 11-12 April 2024 (https://www.ds4s.ch/about)
- Jidong Kang has co-authored a paper with his former colleagues from FRS on BIPV system expansion under uncertainty. The paper titled "A distributionally robust optimization model for photovoltaic system expansion planning under demand and irradiance uncertainties" is now under revision at Applied Energy. First author is Zhuochun Wu.
- The IBPSA Building Simulation 2023 conference proceedings have been published. From POW, we have a paper by Ayca Duran on BIPV and Urban Microclimate, titled “A parametric approach to evaluate the impact of BIPV facades on outdoor thermal comfort in different urban contexts” (https://publications.ibpsa.org/conference/paper/?id=bs2023_1308)
- Justin McCarty has submitted a review paper titled “Solar energy in the city: A data-driven literature review on urban photovoltaics” to “Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews”
- The abstract for WCS symposium titled as “Land-use patterns and the deployment potential of distributed solar energy system in a high-density tropical city: A Singapore case study” has been accepted for poster presentation. The work is led by Jidong Kang, Prof Yuming Fu and in collaboration with the module “Semantic Urban Elements” Cai Chenyi and Pieter Herthogs
- A review paper titled "Critical review of mycelium-bound product development to identify barriers to entry and paths to overcome them" written by Prof. Hortense has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
- Tiziano Derme, with the Artist and composer Nadine Schütz have been awarded the Arts Production grant 2024 supported by Pro Helvetia and Ars Electronica. The project will be exhibited during Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, from September 4-8, 2024
ongoing research.
- Participatory model conceptualization workshop conducted in Antananarivo with stakeholders (pre-setup to serious game design).
- Fanny Voélin starting a new survey campaign in Antananarivo.
We carried out a successful seminar week with our MAS students visiting agricultural pioneers, researchers and experts around the Zürich Metropolitan region. The first review of the site analysis took place on 13. March.
- Our AMIL module organised the third AMIL-LTA-URA workshop (2024 Spring workshop) on Mar 27 in the value lab and online. Participants include both PIs and Co-I, Postdoc and PhD students from both Singapore and Zurich hubs. Seven members, Prof Adey Bryan, Assis Prof Prateek Bansal, Prof Kay Axhausen, Zhuhan Jin, Arnor Elvarsson, Qiming Ye, Jin Rui Yap, of our module gave presentations to participants of both local authorities. The workshop functions as a chance to examine the progresses of respective research packages of the module, also serving as a valuable chance to receive feedbacks, supports, alignments from stakeholders. The next workshop is projected to be held around September 2024.
- Arnór Elvarsson and master student (Fabrice MARGGI) of Prof Adey Bryan have each had a conference paper accepted to the Swiss Transport Research Conference held in May. The papers are titled “A methodology to identify and assess transport infrastructure development considering land-use uncertainty” and “Implementing early-stage highway planning support in Dübendorf-Hinwil considering uncertain land-use and mobility demand”.
- Qiming Ye has one of the EV charging infrastructure planning study (abstract) been accepted by the 18th IACP Annual Conference. (link)
- A co-authored poster of Pengyuan's got accepted in the World Cities Summit 2024 on the topic of Advancing Human-centered Urban planning: incorporating Human Perception in Digital Twins.
- A collaborator from US got in touch with Pengyuan for a US-Swiss funding opportunity
- A co-authored paper of Pengyuan collaborated with UAL submited to the second round of review in CEUS > An abstract out of the paper mentioned above sumitted to ISPRS-TCIV Symposium
- Shuyang submitted another co-authored paper to CDRF 2024
- Yue Zhu has submitted her manuscript on urban morphology and pluvial floodwater distribution. > Dengkai Chi's manuscript on greenspace patterns and mortality in Swiss adults is under internal review.
- The team is preparing a data paper on urban patterns (e.g., street networks, buildings, blocks, greenspace...) in >40 cities, led by Jing Wang.
- Naika Meili gave a research seminar at the Tropical Environmental Change (TEC) group of the NUS Department of Geography. The title is 'Quantification of vegetation effects on hydrology and climate through mechanistic modelling'.