We evaluate the microclimate impacts on potential urban projects to help the city determine the most efficient strategy thanks to the projection of felt temperature.

About

We propose a 3D modeling service to simulate the microclimate around potential urban projects in order to compare each other in terms of efficiency in regard to resilience, taking into account components like sun exposure, temperature, wind speed, and direction, humidity, etc. This service aims to assist city planners in the decision process, the modelization helps them to select the project bringing the more resilience, with a data-driven approach.

Key Benefits

Our simulations have double benefits. We obtain the optimum urban development strategies for new or renovated neighbourhoods to increase outdoor comfort levels and reduce energy consumption for cooling demands. The actual benefits are difficult to quantify as they vary on case to case basis due to the complexity of simulated physical phenomena. For example, simulation of tree implementation in one particular neighborhood led to a variation of lower mean temperature of 2.5°C to 0.9°C from one street to another which attain benefits from lower health risk to lower cooling demand in buildings.

Applications

- Inside cities, we can work with city officials and urban planners. Potentially of all cities concern by urban heat island. On all continents, in developed and developing countries. They need to be aware of the problem and looking for solutions. - Architect and urbanist designers for who the environmental impact of their production is important. We propose them to evaluate and highlight the efficiency of your projects to improve outdoor comfort. - Engineers and industrials, which are looking to demonstrate the effectiveness of their innovative material or installation in order to mitigate the microclimate. - Electricity producers aiming to flatten the peak of energy consumption in the summertime because of cooling demand. - Engineering offices looking for subcontract microclimate expertise.

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