The SmartCitiesWorld Summit, which takes place 26-27 June, will act as a call to action for cities to make the transformation of the built environment a central part of their climate action strategies.
The first day of the online event confirmed that the smart cities sector is well aware of its destination but it’s how it gets there that will be the problem.
In 2020, the City of Sydney released a Smart City Strategic Framework to harness the opportunities brought about by digital disruption, to plan for uncertainty and to sustain a global reputation as a leading place to live, work, learn and visit.
A home should not be a bubble in the smart city, but part of the connected fabric for better living and quality of life, says Phil Brunkard, Republic of Things.
Development includes 847 net-zero ready homes on the city’s largest brownfield site, addressing the housing emergency and helping achieve climate action goals.
Three clean technology startups have been awarded $250,000 each in non-dilutive funding to help accelerate energy-efficient, resilient building technologies.
Partnership with the digital arm of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority will combine InfraX’s infrastructure expertise with Tuya’s smart home technologies.
The trial by smart energy company Ivie enables homes with low-carbon tech to test a subscription-style, flat-rate tariff that is not dependent on usage.
Projects funded under the Heat Networks Investment Project will supply over 700 GWh of lower carbon heat and cut more than 81,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.
Awards of $3.5m will help install decarbonising retrofits in buildings while applications are open for Technology Matching Fund Grants, aimed at digital equity.
Malt Drive Park is an expansive development along Newtown Creek waterfront in Queens and has been designed with sculpted topography to mitigate flood risk.
The project sees the transformation of University of Manchester’s North campus into a district to advance innovation across sectors, including digital tech.
US Department of Housing and Urban Development aims to provide best practices for mitigation, building community resilience and lowering cooling costs.
Draft plan for the environmentally friendly, coastal development in Seafield aims to help address the housing emergency that exists in the Scottish capital.
Investing in America Agenda will raise the bar for energy efficiency in buildings across the country, lowering energy costs and combatting climate change.
The programme will distribute $12.62m to 32 local governments, two states, and one Tribe to improve energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Denver Housing Authority’s $661k project aligns with the US city’s climate action goals with houses making use of energy-efficient heat pump technologies.
IN² aims to support corporations and communities towards sustainability goals by providing practical implementation guidance and access to validated technologies.
Liverpool City Region’s new roadmap has been approved, designed to respond to skills, transport, housing and climate challenges in the next four years.
The solar campaign has begun enrolling 1,700 units to an estimated 5,000 residents from seven properties across The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.
The establishment of the new department is a major piece of mayor Wu’s vision to transform planning and development and create a green and growing city.
Netmore’s LoRaWan IoT connectivity will be added to 27,000 apartments across Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg to improve energy efficiency and operations.
Colorado Smart Cities Alliance is launching the fourth annual C² Challenge to source technology solutions that address specific problems faced by communities.
Heat pump partnership brings together state agencies, manufacturers, utilities, and other market actors to support the state’s heat pump and climate targets.
Streamlined environmental review process will reduce timetable by up to two years, and slash around $100,000 in costs per project for housing proposals.
The building utilises a $100,000 grant from Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency to facilitate all-electric design and heat pumps.
Development of the City’s strategy involved community engagement to establish equity and effectiveness criteria, which guided formulation of core policies.
Its latest report advocates a place-based approach to meet net zero targets, but also to deliver safer, healthier and sustainable outcomes for communities.
The fifth round of funding through the Government’s Heat Network Efficiency Scheme will support 33 heat networks across public and private sector organisations.
The roadmap outlines significant enhancements to broaden market reach and simplify deployments, including improved connectivity in challenging environments.
These types of grants help cities plan with the community around major transportation projects to improve access to public transit and affordable housing.
All of these companies are building smart cities technology solutions to issues confronting quality of life in communities across the state of Colorado.
The SmartCitiesWorld Summit, which takes place 26-27 June, will act as a call to action for cities to make the transformation of the built environment a central part of their climate action strategies.
The UK’s Net Zero Investment Taskforce says to retrofit homes we must also try to retrofit a financial system to a purpose for which it was not created.
Collaboration between university and Recovery Office provides a view of Baltimore’s conditions at neighbourhood-level prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Report by global proptech venture capital firm Pi Labs provides analysis of the potential for AI to decarbonise the built environment using just four use cases.
Arup and the WBCSD warn that without understanding where carbon comes from, it will be impossible to make the scale of cuts needed to meet the Paris Agreement.
Built environment professionals are urged to include embodied carbon assessments within Scope 3 reporting for more accurate representation of carbon footprints.
Vienna House will be built with sustainable building components and will use a digital twin to test and optimise components and systems such as passive airflow.
Arup has mapped London’s heat risk across homes, neighbourhoods and essential properties in the wake of climate change, informing the city’s resilience plans.
Working with Edaroth, the council is creating the homes based on a new model created under the city’s involvement in the UN Climate Smart Cities challenge.
Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Energy will work together on domestic efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the building sector.
Project is leveraging IoT and decentralised wireless networks technology to gather real-time data about the wellbeing of Valencia’s most vulnerable citizens.
The Earls Court Development Company plans to create a commercial space for the UK’s clean and climate technology sector on a cleared site in West London.
Kapuso in the Upper Yard is a transit-oriented, affordable housing development, providing homes for low-income families, including public housing residents.
Pilot to decarbonise Boston’s housing stock will support building owners with energy assessments, construction management, and forgivable loan financing.
Houses will be retrofitted with equipment like heat pumps, financed by corporate buyers looking to fund local projects which deliver benefits in their areas.
City of London Corporation report highlights need for a skilled and diverse workforce capable of constructing, retrofitting, and managing sustainable buildings.
IStructE urges architects, engineers and designers to create the built environment in a different way and use new material more sparingly and prioritise reuse.
The Candian city aims to future-proof existing rental buildings, making them more resilient to the impacts of climate change as well as more energy-efficienct.
Thomas Madreiter, director of planning for the city of Vienna, explains how citizen participation and engagement on critical issues has shaped the city’s urban planning strategy to earn it the top ranking in this year’s Economist Intelligence Unit Liveability Index.
A report by the consultancy McKinsey identifies the top decarbonisation levers that it reckons can help reduce built environment emissions by half by 2030.
It is introducing the Building Emissions Performance Standard Policy to existing non-residential and multifamily buildings greater than 20,000 square feet.
Work has started on site to build what is claimed to be the UK’s first mobility hub in Manchester, which forms part of the Ancoats people-first neighbourhood.
A district geothermal ground-source heat pump will provide renewable heating and cooling to Coney Island commercial retail and high-rise residential community.
West Midlands Combined Authority is working with regional stakeholders to develop a pipeline of projects to help attract investment to tackle climate change.
A report from the Urban Land Institute details how zoning updates can improve housing attainability, sustainability, climate resilience, and community health.
It will show the City’s approach to enabling housing production to achieve or exceed the provincial housing target of 285,000 new homes in the next 10 years.
Tool is part of the City’s work to develop a pathway to transition buildings to carbon-free electricity and aligns with its Climate Action and Adaptation Plan.
Through its Urbanverse, the people-centric, integrated district aims to be a model of social, economic and environmental sustainability in the Thai capital.
Master plan for the 2.5 million square feet mixed-use development includes parliament and ministry buildings as well as residential and commercial buildings.
“Branch Out” is a new pilot scheme, designed through the lens of equity, to increase tree cover on private property in areas that are canopy deficient.
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