Project Investigation Objective

Investigation Plan

Project Investigation Objective

Mitigation of UHI can offer more living urban environment through improved thermal comfort and lesser energy requirements. Existing UHI mitigation approaches offer cooling fabrics, urban landscaping, water, and shade as potential temperature-moderation options and boost the adaptability to increasing climate in the cities. The efficiency of any UHI mitigation strategy varies by location, city (density, scale) and local climate. The thermal properties of building materials provide an important contribution to this thermal storage. Application of materials with increased reflexibility, reduced heat capacity and improved damp ability or absorption in the context of paving materials can therefore be a rational means of reducing UHI. Such cool materials as urban pavement, building roofing and facades can be implemented. A cool fabric has a low thermal conductivity, low thermal efficiency and low thermal volume, maximum thermal reflectance, high incarnated humidity for evaporation or infiltration into the soil.

The existing modern urban region in Australia majorly reflects the modern materials to beautify the buildings. In this case glass façade is majorly uptake by these modern urban regions. Completely glazed façades, especially reflecting, are quite like mirrors, and so during peak hours of hot days the most solar energy will be diverted downhill towards other buildings or roads normally built of concrete mix and absorb 90-95% of solar radiation (thermal radiation).

The building will have some solar heat, but the remaining is disrupted towards neighboring buildings via the glass panels. In addition, heat could efficiently be trapped on a street level depending on elements like the façades of surrounding buildings as well as the size of the street. Not simply glass facades, there's the same impact for every kind of solid metallic material. It is desired to reduce the UHI effect for the reasons described in the discussion. The urban planner may help integrate these into urban design with urban models and simulation tools to predict the impact of mitigating measures. The studies have found that urban planners employ empirical models more than numerical models. The project implies the model of the Australian urban region and outcome for the simulation results in context to urban heat island. Further strategies to mitigate the excessive heat will be discussed and proposed to reduce the UHI effect.

Climate change is not just a forecasting issue, it is happening today and measures to mitigate change can only reduce its intensity. Climate change adaptation is thus a key growing priority for Australian cities. Analysis of historical climate data from Australia showed that close to surface temperatures in 2030 were predicted to rise by 0.7 C by 2090, and 1.3 C by 2090 compared with 1910 baseline. In this statistical analysis, the fundamental assumption is that climate pattern. The Australian average surface temperatures in 2014 reveal a shift in temperatures of 0.5 C to -1 C compared to 1910 throughout most of the continent — including the Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne.

For future research into Urban Heat Island the recommendations are given, such as the classification of the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) are easy to recognize. The LCZ classification does not, though, provide an adequately integrated description of land use characteristics. However, it is to be highlighted that it should be utilized at the city level and that when regions are too heterogeneous, it cannot be used. Without the use of very big data sets, empirical models will probably not help explain the cooling effects of any