CATE 2023 – CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India, 13th -15th December 2023
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Climate change affects various geographical, social, cultural, economic, and climatic contexts
differently. Additionally, its impacts are visible at extreme physical scales ranging from an individual
human body and its physiology to the urban level. Therefore, we need diverse solutions for diverse
scales and contexts. The plethora of probable solutions must also be interdisciplinary to demonstrate
effectiveness in multiple domains that affect each other.
Building on the success of the international ‘Windsor Conferences on Thermal Comfort (1994-2020)’
and the ‘Comfort at the Extremes Conferences’ in Dubai (2019), Oman (2021), and Edinburgh (2022),
CATE 2023 brought diverse groups together to deliberate interdisciplinary solutions and strategies
oriented toward climate change and associated extreme events at several scales. This prestigious
conference, hosted by the Faculty of Technology, CEPT University, and the Centre for Advanced
Research in Building Science and Energy, CEPT Research and Development Foundation, took place
from December 13th to 15th, 2023, at CEPT University.
The conference featured thirteen keynote addresses, four workshops, a dedicated exhibition floor for
universities to showcase teaching methodologies, curricula, and student work aligned with the
conference theme, and fifty-five paper presentations. Over 350 people from academia and industry
participated in the conference. The workshops focused on topics such as the process of designing
resilient and highly energy-efficient buildings; alternative avenues of coping with climate challenges
concerning modification of the built environment and human active and passive measures; and
challenges and opportunities for the application of Urban Building Energy Models in cities in the
global South.
Paper presentations covered the following thematic areas:- Circular Economy, Building Materials And Methods
- Climate Resilience – Buildings And Communities
- Human Physiology And Adaptation
- Design Intervention In Buildings For Thermal Comfort
- Health And Well-Being In Buildings
- Low-Energy Cooling Technologies
- Nature-Based Solutions
- Thermal Comfort Models, Metrics And Resilience
- Urban Heat Island And Outdoor Comfort
The Book of Proceedings of CATE 2023 has been published by CEPT Press; each paper has been
assigned a unique DOI. Individual papers and the entire proceedings can be accessed here.Click here to have a glimpse of CATE 2023!
Windsor Conferences
Papers from previous conference are available in downloadable pdf form on the Windsor Conference site
