Future climate and change in liveability of a city's housing environment

重组城市住房以提供负担得起的可持续住房，同时为改善居住环境和减轻住房的生态影响(使住房脱碳)做出贡献，是英国和国际上当代最紧迫的社会挑战之一。该项目旨在展示建筑物之间空间的城市小气候模型如何能够有效地描述和预测城市住房开发项目的宜居性变化，从而有助于改善住房设计成果(宜居性和脱碳)和项目评估。正在进行的住房存量能源模型(HSEM)研究为英国和欧洲住宅部门的脱碳政策提供了参考，包括全国范围内采用符合更高环境性能标准的新建筑规范的估计轨迹。尽管HSEM的进一步发展将继续压低一个国家住房存量的碳足迹，但对于能源驱动型住房存量重组和气候变化之间的复杂相互作用如何导致住房环境宜居性的变化，研究要少得多。目前，在住房存量模型研究中，甚至连宜居性的物理维度(例如，室外和室内空气质量、热舒适性、植被生物多样性等)也很少被考虑。该项目试图以英国最新的气候变化预测(UKCP18)为例，开发一个住房存量宜居性建模框架。该模型将解决室外和室内环境质量的组成部分，作为宜居性的潜在指标。鉴于类似的住房挑战在许多其他国家也存在，这项研究也将具有国际意义和相关性。该项目将与谢菲尔德住房公司(SHC)合作，谢菲尔德住房公司是一家公私合资开发商，目标是在未来10-15年内在谢菲尔德建造大约2300套新住房。SHC承诺以20050 GB的现金和实物捐赠为证明，提供拟议的学生资助。该项目涉及WRDTP的三条专题路径，但最核心的是城市、环境和宜居性路径(CEL)，因为其重点是健康的城市、可持续的城市发展、相互联系的社区以及人口与气候变化之间互动的日益重要。该项目还位于数据、通信和新技术(DCT)路径中，强调数据环境、数据通信、可视化分析和数据驱动的决策制定。此外，该项目与可持续增长、管理和经济生产力(SMP)途径产生了共鸣，因为它明确提到了高水平的量化方法，以及国家监管和公共服务在促进变化方面的作用。

"Restructuring urban housing to deliver affordable sustainable homes while contributing to enhanced living environment and mitigating housing's ecological impact (decarbonising housing) is one of the most pressing contemporary societal challenges in the UK and internationally. This project aims to demonstrate how urban microclimate modelling of the spaces between buildings can generate effective descriptors and predictors of change in the liveability of urban housing developments and thus contribute to improved housing design outcomes (liveability and decarbonisation) and project appraisals. On-going research into housing stock energy modelling (HSEM) has informed policies on decarbonising the residential sector in the UK and Europe, including estimated trajectories of nation-wide adoption of new building specifications meeting higher environmental performance standards. While further development of HSEM will continue to drive down the carbon footprint of a nation's housing stock, much less research has been given to how change in liveability of housing environments may result from the complex interaction between energy-driven housing stock restructuring and climate change. Currently, even the physical dimension of liveability (e.g., outdoor and indoor air quality, thermal comfort, vegetation biodiversity, among others) is rarely taken into account in housing stock modelling research. This project seeks to develop a housing stock liveability modelling framework using the latest UK climate change projections (UKCP18) as an example. The model will address the components of outdoor and indoor environmental quality as potential indicators of liveability. Given that similar housing challenges are seen in many other nations the research will also be of international significance and relevance.The project will be a partnership with the Sheffield Housing Company (SHC), a public-private joint venture developer aiming to build approximately 2,300 new homes in Sheffield in the next 10-15 years. SHC is committed to the proposed studentship evidenced by the £20,050 cash and in-kind contribution. The project relates to three WRDTP thematic pathways but is most centrally located within the Cities, Environment and Liveability (CEL) pathway, given its focuses on healthy cities, sustainable urban development, connected communities and the growing importance of interactions between populations and climate change. The project is also situated well within the Data, Communication, and New Technologies (DCT) pathway through its emphasis on data landscape, 'datafication', visual analytics and data-driven decision-making. In addition, the project resonates with the Sustainable Growth, Management and Economic Productivity (SMP) pathway given its explicit reference to high-level quantitative methods and the role of state regulation and public services in facilitating change."