May 2024 Community Talks: Angelos Chronis, CEO and co-founder of Infrared City, engages in a captivating conversation with Emanuele Naboni, a renowned expert in environmental design and simulation. Together, they delve into the pressing issues surrounding climate change, buildings, and urban environments, offering unique insights and innovative solutions. Chronis and Naboni explore the disconnect between architects' design intuition and the technical analysis performed by simulation experts, emphasizing the need for tools that bridge this gap and enable climate-informed decision-making early in the design process. The conversation also touches on the global shift towards cooling as the dominant energy use in buildings, challenging conventional wisdom around topics such as courtyards, insulation, and greening. The conversation underlines the need for a systemic, multi-variable approach to urban environmental simulation, as well as real-time simulation methods and interactive tools accessible to non-specialist stakeholders. Through our community efforts at infrared.city we aim to provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to actively contribute towards a more sustainable built environment. If you would like to know more and gain access to our real-time simulation tool, signup on our waitlist at: https://infrared.city/ ---- Doctor Emanuele Naboni is a technologist in the field of energy and climate change and an academic. He has held professorships at prestigious institutions worldwide: EPFL, ETH Singapore, Royal Danish Academy, UC Berkeley, UNSW Sydney, UNIPR, and Norman Foster Institute. Naboni's international teaching experience includes invitations to lecture at over 110 universities globally, such as TU Delft, Aalto University, the University of Oxford, and NUS. He worked on projects involving NASA and BIG and had post-doctoral work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. For several years, he was part of the "Performance Design Studio" at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP in San Francisco. He now consults Atkins Realis, Trenitalia, Mario Cucinella Architects, the European Commission and the World Health Organization.
