Accepted Abstracts
See below for a list of selected accepted abstracts for ICEC 2021.
Please note: this list is not comprehensive, a full list of abstracts will be published in the forthcoming conference programme.


Cities and infrastructure
- Estimating embodied emissions of concrete and steel in an excavated rail station
- To what extent has the climate emergency strategy adopted by Southampton City Council met the objectives set for it?
- A review of the existing planning tools for calculating the embodied emissions of transport infrastructure. The case of Aurora and Maple pedestrian tunnels in Toronto.
- Pedestrians’ thermal comfort within the Coventry city centre: Planning for 2021 outdoor activities
- Integration of industrial and urban symbiosis from renewable energy perspectives
- Review of struggling secondary high streets across the UK, pre and post COVID
- Embedding improved health outcomes through inclusive transport networks
- Transforming a city centre park to a citizen centric support space
- A methodology for optimising electric vehicle charging, ensuring access to all citizens – a case study in Winchester District, UK
- Developing a universal robust regional environmental assessment platform at the city and organisational level
- Forecasting future demand and constraints in an already constrained network in Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
- Options for future residential land use in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.
- Distribution patterns and predictive model of solar radiation in urban street canyons with panorama images

Smart cities and data
- The London solar opportunity map
- Data driven anomaly detection in office environmental measurements
- Tools for transparency and reproducibility in ‘big’ data driven energy demand research: case-studies of open data, open code and open science
- Investigation and evaluation of energy consumption for office buildings in Vietnam
- Analysis and evaluation of CT transformation error for non self-contained smart meters installed in smart cities
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Tools for transparency and reproducibility in ‘big’ data driven energy demand research: case-studies of open data, open code and open science
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Utilising consumption data to refine energy strategies for KSA building stock
- The operational cost of infrared thermographic detection of faulty photovoltaic solar modules using deep learning
- Resilient cities in the 21st century: effectively responding to natural disasters using artificial intelligence and computer vision technology
- Integration of computational technology for decision making on sustainable urban renewal practice in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus
- Multivariate monthly water demand prediction using classical, ensemble and gradient boosting tree-based machine learning techniques

Energy and net zero carbon
- Emission characterisitcs of compression ignition (CI) engines running on waste cooking oil based biodiesel-nano additive blends
- A zero-carbon heating strategy for new housing developments along the Cambridge-Milton Keynes- Oxford arc
- Climate change and the renewable energy transition in Africa : can Ghana learn from Kenya?
- Life Cycle assessment applied to a Chinese building in Tianjin and international comparison
- Isle of Wight energy autonomous community
- Optimized battery thermal management system using PCM composites- forced convection: experimental and numerical investigation
- Peak load shaving with building integrated PV systems serving cooling loads in Saudi housing sector
- Impact of phase change material on air conditioning loads in buildings in KSA
- Pathway to net zero through local housing authority building refurbishment and energy provision
- Alternative storage approaches to reducing air conditioning load in middle eastern buildings
- Energy consumption of system-built versus cavity wall construction in the social housing sector
- Comparative analysis of electricity consumption profiles in high density cities: a comparison of Portsmouth UK and Xi’an, China
- Car parking spaces can contribute to electrical power generation in cities
- Potential of energy efficiency improvement among listed buildings – a case study in Winchester District, UK
- Seeing the light: the impact of a programme of energy efficient lighting upgrades on the electricity consumption of households in South East of England
- Comparing EPC modelled energy use with real consumption in domestic buildings
- Simulation of integrated systems : a first contribution towards a techno-economic assessment tool for multi-energy systems
- The contribution of decentralized Pphotovoltaic systems to energy poverty alleviation in La Pila, Slp, Mexico

Energy, behaviour and wellbeing
- High electrification rate but energy-poor populations: The rural electrification landscape in isolated off-grid island communities in the Philippines
- Static and dynamic setpoint optimization in residential heat pumps based on learned user behavior
- Energy-saving health reform of sub-healthy living environment after the intervention of new energy – Taking a university dormitory in Wuhan, China as an example
- The impact of thermally compliant buildings on the winter indoor comfort of occupants in cold semi-arid climate: validated and simulated cases
- Eliminating the imbalance of daylighting caused by occupant behaviour via multilevel controlled shading system in open office
- Assessment of environmental comfort in educational buildings. Case study in the north of Spain in winter conditions.
- Simulating the consequences of a real time carbon tax at the city and neighbourhood scale
- Efficient modeling framework of urban heat island effect and generating hourly weather data for outdoor comfort assessment: A case study of Shenzhen
- Energy messaging and personality traits influence on green investment: An online face to face focus group approach
- Understanding personality traits in affluent, highly educated owner occupier UK households to tailor energy efficiency measures offered by energy retailers
- The influence of personality and energy literacy on a households stated acceptance of heat deferral
- Sources, behaviour and mitigation strategies influencing indoor air quality
- Evaluating occupant perceptions of their presence and energy-use patterns in shared office spaces
- An educational awareness program to reduce energy consumption in public institutions: The case of the French Social Security
- Shadows of COVID 19 on the residential architecture and neighborhoods in cities: rethinking the home design as a living space in Ontario