April 26, 2016

Singapore has a highly urbanized environment and an estimated 85% of the population lives in high-rise public housings known as HDBs. With the population projected to increase further, the demand for housing developments is expected to rise in tandem. Hence, there is an urgent need to find out more about the micro-climate of these urbanized housing developments.

A study was conducted in 2009 for this purpose. The team conducting the study comprises of Bernadett Balázs (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology), Terianne Hall (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matthias Roth (National University of Singapore), and Leslie K. Norford (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). They study the difference of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, rainfall, pressure and surface temperature between an open area and a chosen HDB block.

Their project is kindly funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre for Environmental Sensing and Monitoring (CENSAM).

To learn more about their project, please click here.