Simulating Urban Microclimates: The São Paulo Case Study
Are you ready to tackle heatwave and improve thermal comfort in your city?
Urban environments, especially in dense and peripheral areas, often face significant microclimatic challenges. As city planners and environmental agencies seek to implement effective green infrastructure strategies, it's crucial to understand how different interventions impact a city's microclimate.
In this expert-led session, we'll dive into a real-world case study from São Paulo, Brazil. We'll share how we partnered with the São Paulo City Environmental Agency to analyze a critical urban area using advanced microclimatic simulations. You'll learn about the innovative methodology we developed, the key findings from our study, and the actionable recommendations we provided to help the city create more resilient and comfortable urban spaces.
What You’ll Learn:
- The São Paulo "Atlas of Temperatures" Project: An overview of the city's innovative urban environmental management tool and the motivations behind this specific case study.
- Data-Driven Methodology: How we used a combination of local weather station data, EPW files, and a unique material database to create a highly accurate simulation model for a subtropical climate.
- The Role of Vegetation vs. Structural Shading: A direct comparison of the microclimatic effects of green infrastructure (trees) and tensile membrane structures, including their impact on air temperature, mean radiant temperature, and thermal comfort during a heatwave.
- Beyond the Simulation: How these findings directly informed the city's urban planning and risk mitigation strategies in a low-income, peripheral neighbourhood.
Who should attend the webinar:
- Urban planners, architects, and designers interested in microclimatic analysis and green infrastructure.
- Environmental consultants and researchers working on urban heat island mitigation.
- City officials and environmental agency staff involved in urban planning and climate resilience projects.
- Anyone interested in the practical application of microclimatic simulation tools like ENVI-met in real-world scenarios.