Urban Heat Resilience for Cooler, Healthier Cities

As cities experience more frequent and intense heatwaves, improving urban heat resilience has become a shared challenge that extends far beyond building services engineering. This CIBSE YEN-hosted event brings together voices from various disciplines, including research, architecture, building services engineering, and urban design to explore how each discipline approaches the challenge of overheating and where greater collaboration can deliver better outcomes.Through a series of short presentations followed by an audience Q&A, each speaker will share their perspectives, from shaping industry-wide guidance and designing heat-resilient buildings to tackling challenges within the industry and translating research into practice. The event will explore how decisions made at every scale are interconnected, encouraging attendees to learn from other disciplines, identify common goals, and explore opportunities for more integrated approaches to climate adaptation.Designed for built environment professionals, this event will be a valuable forum for knowledge exchange, cross-sector collaboration, and practical discussion on delivering cooler, healthier, and climate-resilient cities.