The project aims to explore the interactions between energy and climate at the urban scale, resulting in design and engineering solutions which can increase resilience and adaptability.

We foresee that this would involve a review of the energy generation, storage, supply-demand, metering and control landscape, nature-based solutions, climate forecasts and other potential design or social interventions. A modelling approach will be employed, combining environmental micro-climate, building level and local energy system simulation to assess different resilience and adaptability scenarios. The co-benefits will be quantified, such as the effect of green infrastructure on building heating/cooling demand, or the effect of a shift to electric vehicles and active mobility on urban heat island.