Semantic Urban Elements: Linking Urban Analytics, Design, and Usage for Cyber-Physical Cities

- Filip Biljecki, alongside international collaborators, are organising an Special Issue in Environment and Planning B (EPB), a renowned journal in the community

- Filip Biljecki gave guest lectures at Peking University and Tsinghua University.

- Chenyi Cai hosted a representative from the NEOM project in Saudi Arabia

Dense and Green Cities

- Work is progressing well on the book publication, and the team is currently coordinating the graphics and visualisations with the publishers.

- DEN team submitted a poster for the CREATE Symposium 2024 titled - "Spatial Network Analysis-based Methods to Analyse Pedestrian Movement in Multilevel Environments"

Circular Future Cities

- Last week Daniel Hall, Ranjith Soman and Ben Sanchez attended the 41st International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction.

- On the 3-7th of June, Shuyan Xiong attended the Summer School “Closing the Loop: (Re-)Design for Disassembly & Circular Economy”.

- Näf René and Yang Anton presented their master project "Enhancing Sustainability through Dynamic Logistics Optimization for Circular Construction Materials" supervised by Shuyan Xiong and Guillaume Habert.

- Tommaso Ferrari presented his master project "Building stock modelling for urban mining" supervised by Carlo Schmid, Aleksandra Kim and Stefanie Hellweg.

- A journal paper titled "Techniques and Tools for Integrating Building Material Stock Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment at the Urban Scale: A Systematic Literature Review" authored by Wanyu Pei, Filip Biljecki, and Rudi Stouffs, has been accepted for publication in Building and Environment on 8th June.

Powering the City

- Join us for the next BauHow 5: “Decarbonisation of the Built Environment: Current and Future Needs and the Role of Architecture Universities.” this Friday at ETH Zurich: (https://www.linkedin.com/events/decarbonisationofthebuiltenviro7199801627296342016/about/)

- The ETH A/S group presented open master theses last week. Please have a look at the open projects and share with potential student candidates: https://master-buildingsystems.ethz.ch/curriculum/open-semester-and-master-thesis-projects.html

- Last week, we had the pleasure to welcome Prof Bomani Khemet from University of Toronto to ETH Zurich. His research revolves around building systems, natural ventilation and vernacular construction principles

- On Monday 10th June 2024, Dr. Yean Seandglidet from the Mobility-WP joined the meeting with AMI and FRS (organised by FRS) for the Lufthansa Innovation Hub Visit to SEC/FRS, to introduce the overview of POW. For context, the Director of Research and Intelligence from the Lufthansa Innovation Hub in Berlin will be visiting. FRS thinks there is potential interest in a collaboration, although the specifics are still unclear. They invited us to present as the visiting team might be interested in the mobility. Any collaborations are still being discussed with FRS team.

- On Tuesday, Alina Galimshina had a final closure event of the SNF Agora project “building renovating - yes! But how?“, where she and her team presented a web based tool that allows for an easy estimation of the environmental impact on building level and Swiss building stock level - https://alpha--renovatingbuildings.netlify.app/ .

- Alina was also invited as a speaker in a SAPIENS Network conference at the university of Birmingham, where she gave a talk titled “Facilitating the shift to low carbon buildings with enabling tools”, https://sapiensnetwork.eu

- Pit Mathieu presented his master's thesis in Zurich on “predicting BIPV cell temperature with CFD and Machine Learning”, supervised by Justin McCarty and Ayca Duran. His work advances the topic of BIPV-specific temperature models. The developed ML model is trained to temperate climates and it gives us key insights into future work.

Agropolitan Territories of Monsoon Asia

- The team (Stephen Cairns, Niraly Mangal, Joshua Vargas and Pari Biswas, supported by Darshan Lineswala from Singapore), working on a collaborative project funded by the Asia Development Bank, just returned from a capacity-building workshop in Rajasthan, India. They were there to train government officials to integrate ur-scape into their planning processes. It was extremely well-received and we look forward to following up with the final 2 workshops before the end of the year.

- our PhD researcher, Fan Lei, will be spending the next 2 months doing field work in Zhe Jiang and Chengdu, China.

Resilient blue-green infrastructures

Nicolas Salliou presented part of our assessment of stakeholders' mental models about blue-green infrastructures at the "NBS and water-risks conference" in Strasbourg, France.

Game design is ongoing in Antananarivo. Constance Brouillet and Nantenaina Ravoahangilalao are conducting a game testing workshop with team members and stakeholders engaged inserious co-design.

Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure

- Qiming Ye, Canh Do Xuan, Bryan Adey and Prateek Bansal submitted the poster for the CREATE symposium 2024.

- Ms Zhuhan Jin from AMIL of FCL, also a second year PhD student at NUS, held a PhD seminar sharing her latest research on the inter-household travel behaviours. This PhD seminar served as a dryrun for her presentation on the upcoming 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research at the University of Vienna, July 14-18, 2024.

- Module-wise research progress continues smoothly.

The Sea-​City Interface

- PhD researcher Yuan WANG's paper "An integrated framework for jointly assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of surface urban heat island intensity and footprint: China, 2003-2020" accepted by Sustainable Cities and Society

- Pengyuan's book chapter on spatial analysis is accepted in The Encyclopedia of Human Geography.

Comparative Ecology of Cities

- Our Co-I, Dr. Daniel Richards from New Zealand, visited the team on 12 Jun.

- Jing Wang attended the workshop 'Humans in the City: Artificial Intelligence Research and Urban Environments' at AGILE conference in the University of Glasgow.

Engagement Platform

- Search Functionality on the Engagement Platform - The Team is working to implement a search functionality that aims to optimise the ability of users to search and find content relevant to their needs.

Future Cities Laboratory Global

- The June edition of the FCL Global exhibition concluded successfully. We will reinstall the exhibition in URA for the month of July.  In the coming days, the module representatives will be informed of the schedule for device installation and check for 01 July. Please look out for the details. 

- The next round of module survey updates will be opened in the coming weeks. Please prepare the updates and await further instructions.