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
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