CATE 2021 – Oman
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The 2021 Comfort At The Extremes Conference (www.cate21.com) was held from the 24th to the 26th October 2021 at the College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, following on from CATE19 in Dubai. The hosts of this conference in Oman stressed the urgent need, and importance of, research into how best to adapt to the impacts of changing climates, energy systems and societal pressures on the sustainability and resilience of built environments, ecosystems, countries and the planet, not least in the very hot climate of the Middle East.
The conference reached out to all relevant researchers, governmental bodies, industries with vested interests in the future nature, scale andimpacts of extreme temperature trends and events. Problems were outlined and possible solutions and opportunities to build safer, healthier and better societies and economies were presented. A clear focus was on looking to integrate the work of many different disciplines and promote research collaboration between researchers and industry.
A range of papers described the past present and futures projects in Oman itself, a country located on the south-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, with a hot and dry climate in the inland arid, hot desert region, bordered to the East by humid coastal areas. Papers covered a range of subjects including:
- Thermal comfort and vernacular architecture
- Comfort after COVID-19
- Sustainability in extreme climate
- Climate change and building design
- Natural ventilation and its role in thermal comfort
- Construction materials in extreme climates
- Outdoor thermal comfort
- Climate change and building design
- Policies and regulations of construction in extreme climates
- Smart building systems
- Resilient thermal comfort
The full proceedings are available on the conference website along with some of the presentations at: www.cate21.com
Windsor Conferences
Papers from previous conference are available in downloadable pdf form on the Windsor Conference site
