Recorded presentations

This page provides recordings of the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Evolving Cities, 13-15 July 2022.

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Day 1

Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Session 1: Solent future transport (1)

Keynote: Cllr Satvir Kaur, Leader of Southampton City Council, UK

Session 2: Low carbon comfort

Keynote: Dr Jens Madrian, NEOM Energy, Saudi Arabia

Session 3: Sustainability in business

Keynote: Paul Copping, Fawley Waterside, UK

Residential heating forum

Keynote: Alan Penn, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, UK

Day 2

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Session 4: Energy technologies (1)

Keynote: Laura Bishop, Ground Source Heat Pump Association, UK

Session 5: Cities, wellbeing and behaviour

Keynote: Nick Tyler, Director of University College London Centre for Transport Studies, UK

Session 6: Solent future transport (2)

Keynote: Isaac Kiva, Secretary, State Department of Public Works, Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works, Kenya

Session 7: Resilient future infrastructure

Keynote: Toby Harris, Chair of the National Preparedness Commission, UK

Day 3

Friday, 15 July 2022

Session 8: Energy technologies (2)

Keynote: Lixiao Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

Session 9: Smart cities and data

Keynote: Chris Cooper, Principal KnowNow Information Ltd, UK

Session 10: Socio-techno solutions in cities

Awards and closing ceremony

Solent future transport (1)

Keynote: Satvir Kaur, Leader of Southampton City Council, UK
Welcome to the City of Southampton

Invited speaker:

  • John Preston, The Solent Future Transport Zone: Research Challenges for Evolving City Regions

Contributed papers

  • Mohanad Al-Behadili, Freight consolidation in the Solent Region: Concepts, benefits and challenges
  • Behrad Koohy, Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Traffic Signal Control in Smart Cities
  • Mostafa Mahdy, Mapping Electric Vehicle Charging Points for Hampshire County using the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Optimisation
  • Seyed Mohammad Hossein Toliyat, Investigating the impacts of connected and automated vehicles on road carbon emissions: A semi-systematic literature review

Low carbon comfort

Keynote: Dr Jens Madrian, NEOM Energy, Saudi Arabia
Designing a 100% renewable based energy system for NEOM from scratch

Invited speaker:

  • Sebastian Stein & Christina Vanderwel, Low carbon comfort research opportunities

Contributed papers:

  • Benjamin Lellouch, Building Management System (BMS) for Low Carbon Comfort
  • Gregory Sewell, Utilising children as agents of change to reduce heating use in domestic dwellings
  • Bryan Ming De Gan, Simulation of outdoor air pollution in Southampton

Sustainability in business

Keynote: Paul Copping, Fawley Waterside, UK
Learnings from Fawley Waterside

Invited speaker:

  • Jonathan Trice, The Impact of Sustainability on Commercial Real Estate

Contributed papers:

  • Ben Anderson, Using the GHG Protocol and Science Based Targets to estimate Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and set reduction targets for a city-based University: Experiences and early results
  • Anna-Maria Spicher, Innovative extrapolation statistical methods for the calculation of carbon emissions for real estate assets
  • Maria Jangsten, District Cooling – assessment of price models supporting the efficiency
  • Michaël Knaute, How the new European taxonomy for sustainable activities will enable the transition to more sustainable cities?

Residential heating forum

Keynote: Alan Penn, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, UK
Levelling up the UK: dissecting disparities and developing a taxonomy of towns

Forum panellists:

  • Adam Goulden, Chief Executive of the Environment Centre (tEC)
  • C harlotte Johnson, Head of Research Programmes at the Centre for Sustainable Energy
  • Chitra Nadarajah, Head of Climate Change and Environmental Strategy at Hampshire County Council
  • Andrew Waggott, Head of Energy Services at Portsmouth City Council

Energy technologies (1)

Keynote: Laura Bishop, Ground Source Heat Pump Association, UK
Heat pumps as a pathway to achieving net zero carbon in buildings

Invited speaker:

  • Chris Nicholls, Options for cost-effective home heating: a case study of a ground source heat pump installation

Contributed papers:

  • Meng Gao, Thermal performance analysis of a large scale water pit heat storage
  • Eleonora Baccega, Improvement of building envelope performance through phase change materials (PCMs): Results of experimental activities
  • Muhammad Talut, Coupling-up Urban Buildings Together for Augmented Solar PV Output In Bangladesh

Cities, wellbeing and behaviour

Keynote: Nick Tyler, University College London Centre for Transport Studies, UK
Putting people at the centre of post-pandemic city design

Invited speaker:

  • Alan Wilson, Levelling up, the much needed outcome from decarbonising properties

Contributed papers:

  • Christelle Blunden, Becoming a National Park City
  • Yuqi Dai Low-Carbon Resilience Planning to improve Urban Ecological Security: A Critical Review
  • Fatma Erdem, As pharma is to people, so infrastructure is to cities
  • Zhiry Hawez Baiz, Reshaping the Tourist Movement in Historical Urban Areas for Enhancing Architecture Conservation: Historical District of Koya City as a Case Study

 

Solent future transport (2)

Keynote: Isaac Kiva, Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works, Kenya
Towards a sustainable and low carbon built environment, a view from Kenya

Contributed papers:

  • Nima Dadashzadeh, Environmental and health information effects on travel behaviour in the Solent region, UK
  • Jisun Kim, Mobility as a Service interface design requirements with a focus on gender differences

  • Seda Sucu, Mobility as a Service and Sustainable Travel Behaviour: Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Alan Wong, Future Transport Zone – Top-down and Bottom-up Monitoring and Evaluation

Resilient future infrastructure

Keynote: Lord Toby Harris, Chair of the National Preparedness Commission, UK
A system of systems view of the evolution of cities – being inclusive

Contributed papers:

  • David Hutchinson Port City infrastructure challenges and opportunities to achieving Zero Emissions: A case study utilising Portsmouth International Port
  • Lauren McMillan, Principles for Resilient Civil Infrastructure
  • Xiaoxue Hu, Design and cooperative operation strategy optimization of multi energy source district heating system with solar energy
  • Toby Roberts, Southampton port-city: A circular economy hub for southern England

Energy technologies (2)

Keynote: Lixiao Zhang, BEIS, UK
High resolution mapping of urban building stock in China: material efficiency and allometric growth

Contributed papers:

  • Massimiliano Manfren, Interpretable data-driven energy modelling to support decarbonisation strategies – Southampton Highfield Campus case study
  • Alastair Scott, Energy system transition of the Southern Gas Network
  • Mustapha Karkri, Thermal insulation of gypsum boards made with olive pomace: Characterization and simulation study
  • Gary Wilburn, New build and retrofit: achieving net zero carbon now! Focussing on regeneration and positive impact
  • Abdulsalam Alghamdi, Experience of installing rooftop solar PV systems in Saudi Arabia
  • Ben Anderson, Mapping the Hampshire energy use landscape: A preliminary evidence base for a future local energy strategy

Smart cities and data

Keynote: Chris Cooper, Principal, KnowNow Information Ltd, UK
Will we ever have a smart city?

Invited speaker:

  • Nick Allott, The unusual nature of cyber security threat facing cities and strategies to mitigate them

Contributed papers:

  • Viviana Bastidas Melo, A Competency Framework for Leading Place-based Digital Innovation
  • Lauren McMillan, Machine-learning-based health monitoring and leakage management of water distribution systems
  • Markus Hofmeister, Universal digital twin – Cross-domain flood assessment in smart cities using knowledge graphs
  • Luke Blunden, Spatio-temporal variation of particulate concentration measured from a moving vehicle in the City of Southampton, UK

Keynote: Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Minister for Energy and the Green New Deal, UK
Cities evolution, a view from a policy perspective

Socio-techno solutions in cities

Contributed papers:

  • Patrick James, A carbon and cost assessment of alternatives to a natural gas CHP plant for a University Campus
  • Jennifer Williams, How Smart Buildings Can Benefit from Privacy-Preserving Audio Analysis
  • Philip Turner, Acceptability of a heat deferral approach for UK residential heating: ​Impacts from an online focus group approach​
  • Sager Alsulamy, Reducing electricity loads and emissions in an off-grid city in KSA
  • Nasser Alghamdi, Supply chain for PV farms, developed v developing countries
  • Ellis Ridett, Large consumers absorbing local renewable power generation through direct connection using private wires: a real-life case-study on the Isle of Wight, UK

Awards and Closing Ceremony
Presentation of awards for presentations, poster, and poster pitch