Webinar #28 in the RECLAIM Network Webinar Series took place on the 4th September 2024.
Webinars will share best-practice and facilitate knowledge exchange between practitioners, researchers, policymakers, businesses, environmental groups, charities and individuals interested in implementation of green-blue-grey infrastructure for making our vulnerable living spaces more healthy, sustainable and resilient.
Speakers
Dr Julie Futcher RIBA MlntP
Urban Generation Co-Founder
Title of the talk:
“Understanding the #UrbanClimate RULES!””
Biography :
Julie Futcher is a chartered architect and an independent consultant on sustainable urban development. Her research explores the role of London's emerging morphology in the context of climate responsive urbanism and focuses on the dynamic and interdependent influence of built form (particularly tall buildings and increasing urban density), on access to passive resources (i.e., day sunlight and ventilation), and in turn, building energy management (heating, cooling and ventilation). Her research falls at the intersection of building and urban physics, policy, building and urban climate science, and draws attention to many of the built-form outcomes which currently fall outside the broader discussion on sustainable urban development.
Dr Thomas Kjeldsen
Reader, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, University of Bath
Title of the talk: “Catchment scale benefits and disbenefits of green space”
Biography:
Dr Thomas Kjeldsen is a Reader in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, UK, where he teaches introductory courses on engineering risk and uncertainty to undergraduate and postgraduate civil engineering students. He specialised in water resources engineering before moving to the United Kingdom. Following a year working as a consulting hydrologist, he spent a decade working as a research scientist at the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), where he headed research into hydrological extremes.
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