1364: 01/02/2014: Selfish Giants

Selfish Giants
See Also:

NGS CPD

• Global Imperative
• Consequences
• Climate Change
• Green Roof Specification
• UHIE Urban Heat Island Effect

Tall Buildings

• Refurbishment Mod Mov (P)
• Refurbishment Integer Tower (P)
• Refurbishment Sus Towers (P)
• Refurbishment Non-Domestic (P)

NGS JARGON BUSTER

Theme

• Urban Heat Island effect
• 1366: JARGON BUSTER THEME: URBAN DESIGN

Terms

• Albeido
• Climate
• Climate Change
• Climate Zones
• Green Roofs
• Green Walls
• Interdependent Relationships
• Microclimate generation
• Regulated Energy Use
• UHIE
• Urban
• Urban Form
• Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE)
• Urban Morphology
• Urban Setting
• Zone of Influence

NGS CONSULT

• UHIE Urban Heat Island Effect
• Integrated Urban Energy Performance Analysis
• Dr Julie Futcher

NGS DISCIPLINES

NGS PROJECTS

• Future Cities
• CLEAR

NGS PAPERS

• Climate Change, Adaptation, Mitigation, do you like my architecture?

NGS LINKS

Urban Climate

• International association of urban climates

• All urban climate stuff is in one way or another associated them

• its free to join

• website has just changed with a forum.

• it’s a bit clunky and a lot of the day-today stuff is out of date, BUT stick with it as it is an amazing resource

• really nice friendly community

DeMonford University

• http://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk/crew/index.php

• overheating issues in domestic properties 

NGS TOOLS

• CityNET tool (the one with the sliders)

© NGS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
3rd April 2013 – 1st February 2014