COMFORT AT THE EXTREMES

CATE 2022 – 3rd International Conference on COMFORT AT THE EXTREMES: COVID, Climate Change and Ventilation

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  5^th – 6^th September 2022, Edinburgh

  As the world began to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and was coming to grips with the continuous rise in record breaking temperatures around the world this conference attracted some 130 people from 24 countries to look at how these events might impact on the design of buildings.

  Starting with a welcome party at the spectacular Edinburgh Castle it was held over two days in the historic venue of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, originally designed by Robert Adams in the 1770s. The multi-disciplinary brought together speakers from the medical and building professions, engineers, architects, physical and social scientists, politicians and decisions makers. Some important shared research showed how natural ventilation was effective in purging viral loads from hospital warms and clinics and pointed to the need to ensure that opening windows were employed not only in hospitals but also in any buildings in which groups worked together and were subjected to high risks from pathogen transmission.

  A further strong signal from the conference was that new ways of looking at comfort were coming to the fore, including the use of personal comfort technologies and also of local radiant heating and cooling systems. In addition to standout plenary sessions there were ten workshops:

  CATE 22 WORKSHOPS:

  COVID-19 in Buildings: Lessons and Impacts
  Extreme Weather Design
  Natural Ventilation: New Thinking
  Thermal Comfort: New Directions
  Physiology at the extremes
  Resilient Cities and Communities
  Energy and Emissions: Drivers and Impacts
  Behaviours and Controls
  Building Case Studies: Offices, Homes, Care Homes, Schools
  Drivers and Barriers for Change: Regulations and Standards

  A number of the papers are included in the resulting Routledge Handbook on Resilient Comfort

  The Proceedings are open access and available here

  Along with some brilliant keynote online presentations on:

  AIR FILTRATION ON HOSPITAL WARDS AND COVID;
  DESIGNING AIR FLOWS TO MINIMISE COVID TRANSMISSION;
  COMFORT AND VENTILATION IN HOSPITALS;
  REDUCING COVID DEATHS IN WARDS WITH A WINDOW OPENING REGIME;
  URBAN STRATEGIES FOR EXTREME HEATWAVES;
  MODELLING THE IMPACT OF TREES ON COOLING LOADS IN BUILDINGS;
  THE COOLING CRUNCH – USE FANS BEFORE HVAC – A HOW TO;
  STANDARDS – WHOSE STANDARDS?;
  HUMANS AND BUILDINGS IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE;
  ITS HOTTING UP: HOW MUCH AND HOW FAST?

  Windsor Conferences

  Papers from previous conference are available in downloadable pdf form on the Windsor Conference site