Resilient Urban Environments

Prof. Runming Yao is a Lead Academic in Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments at the School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University (Secondment), and the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading; Her research and teaching experience focuses on energy and built environmental quality including modeling urban microclimates; indoor and outdoor thermal comfort, air quality and energy efficiency of buildings. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Building Engineering (Elsevier); She had been a principal/co-Investigators for numerous research projects in China and UK in the field of sustainable built environments including the topics of air quality, indoor environmental quality, low carbon buildings, urban environments, etc. She is the Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (FCIBSE); CIBSE Guide: Environmental Design, AM11; Halton Foundation (Ventilation control strategies for schools), author CIBSE Building for Extreme Climate.  Funding: EPSRC, RICS Research Trust, BC, FCO; member of assessment panels for international research councils (NOW, FCT, NSERC, RGC, MOST). She published over 200 papers; frequently presents and gives keynotes at international conferences. 

Introduction.- Concept of livable cities.- Wellbeing and social health.- Burden of heatwaves and Mortality risks.- Air quality and health impact.- Urban heat island and heat stress.- Modeling urban microclimates.- Modelling Air Quality in the Urban Environment.- Urban ventilation.- Balancing noise environment and indoor soundscaping.- Urban Green Infrastructure.- Urban Flood Resilience.- Nature-based solutions.- Energy demand reduction.- Clean and renewable energy.- Zero-carbon cities.- Principles for the planning of zero-carbon cities/communities.- Global policies and practices for transforming city-regions.- Urban maintenance and robustness.- Place-based systems approach to tackle the grand challenges.