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

Day 2

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Day 3

Friday, 15 July 2022

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

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