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Identifying critical hotspots allows decision-makers to implement more efficiently heat mitigation strategies to protect the citizens and design a safer urban environment.
About
To meet the thermal challenges of large cities, we support decision-makers in defining sustainable strategies in two stages. 1. We compile data from multiple datasets - satellite imagery, weather stations or municipalities OpenData - into a single map, that we call Urban Heat Vulnerability Map. We build this map using 3 sub-indexes: - Exposure, expresses the temperatures of the urban space, - Sensitivity, reflects the population density of vulnerable individuals, - Adaptive capacity, reflects the city's ability to cope with extreme temperatures. We can integrate any other spatial data of interest as soon as it is available. 2. Once the thermal situation is precisely assessed, our urban environment engineers suggest nature-based strategies adapted to the urban profile of the city in order to mitigate the effect of Urban Heat Islands. You can find on our website all our case studies carried out for the last months, including one for the City of Vienna (Austria): https://urban-comfort.eu/clients/.
Key Benefits
City planners can integrate our Vulnerability Map in the Master Plan of the city and the information to target precisely the areas where cooling is the most needed. Because our maps take the demographics into account, deciders are empowered to maximize the efficiency of their heat mitigation investments by implementing solutions where a high-density of vulnerable citizens live.
Applications
We deliver our service to both public and private sectors. We can work directly with municipalities but also with Urban Planners, Architects, and Real Estate Developers. Our service aims to help cities and businesses to identify hotspots in order to implement solutions to reduce the threat of extreme heat in cities.