{"id":3511,"date":"2020-09-09T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2020-10-23T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T13:13:43","slug":"ksap-case-researchers-speak-at-35th-passive-and-low-energy-architecture-plea-virtual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2020\/09\/09\/ksap-case-researchers-speak-at-35th-passive-and-low-energy-architecture-plea-virtual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"KSAP CASE Researchers speak at 35th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Virtual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent School of Architecture and Planning&#8217;s (KSAP) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/case\/\">Centre for Architecture and the Sustainable Environment<\/a> (CASE) Research Centre took part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plea2020.org\/\">35<sup>th<\/sup> PLEA Virtual Conference<\/a> on the 1st &#8211; 3rd September 2020. This year&#8217;s virtual conference theme was \u2018Planning Post Carbon Cities\u2019.\u00a0 KSAP had one of the largest presence from a single school, which was attended by professional and experts from all over the world. CASE, along with their collaborators, presented eight papers covering wide range of topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kyveli Filippidou: &#8216;Assessing heat stress in hospital wards using Wet Bulb Globe temperature: A case study in Mediterranean climate&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-planning\/people\/1117\/mohajerani-parin\">Parin Mohajerani<\/a>: &#8216;Evaluation of a Ventilation System of an Auditorium in England, In Terms of Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-planning\/people\/1086\/nikolopoulou-marialena\">Marialena Nikolopoulou<\/a>: &#8216;Climate Change Adaptation and Retrofit of a Victorian Townhouse in Margate: the 5-year Living Lab&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Agnese Salvati: &#8216;Impact of Urban Albedo on Microclimate: Computational Investigation in London&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-planning\/people\/2077\/telli-mohamed\">Mohamed Telli<\/a>: &#8216;Thermal conditions in urban settlements in hot arid regions: the case of Ksar Tafilelt, Ghardaia, Algeria&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-planning\/people\/2057\/watkins-richard\">Richard Watkins<\/a>: &#8216;Earth Tube Efficacy: Analysis of Heating &amp; Cooling Performance from Long Term Data in UK&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-planning\/people\/2833\/yeninarcilar-muhammed\">Muhammed Yeninarcilar<\/a>: &#8216;Investigating the Impact of Urban Texture on Urban Albedo: Case Study of London&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-planning\/people\/1086\/nikolopoulou-marialena\">Marialena Nikolopoulou<\/a>: &#8216;Analysis of courtyards heat mitigation potential in warm and dry urban locations: Diurnal Thermal Range variants on the porosity of the city&#8217;, co-author as part of a collaboration with the University of Seville.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CASE&#8217;s paper titled, &#8216;Climate Change Adaptation and Retrofit of a Victorian Townhouse in Margate: the 5-year Living Lab&#8217; written by Marialena Nikolopoulou, Richard Watkins, Elena Rueda-de-Watkins, Leire Dominguez-De-Teresa, Giridharan Renganathan and Alkis Kotopouleas received a commendation at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, Muhammed Yeninarcilar received the SBSE (Society of Building Science Educators) and Jeffrey Cook Student Scholarship to cover his conference registration for his paper titled, &#8216;Investigating the Impact of Urban Texture on Urban Albedo: Case Study of London\u2019, co-authored by Marialena Nikolopoulou, Richard Watkins, Giridharan Renganathan and Alkis Kotopouleas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent School of Architecture and Planning&#8217;s (KSAP) Centre for Architecture and the Sustainable Environment (CASE) Research Centre took part in the 35th PLEA Virtual Conference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2020\/09\/09\/ksap-case-researchers-speak-at-35th-passive-and-low-energy-architecture-plea-virtual-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,120529,158264,24357,70],"tags":[120529,158341,24357,227430,25588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}