{"id":1482,"date":"2023-07-18T15:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T06:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/?page_id=1482"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:18:23","slug":"areas11_toshi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-kikai\/areas11_toshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban and Building Environmental Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-69 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/up_load_files\/areas\/areas11_toshi\/theme_acros.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\"><\/p>\n<p>Energy is essential for maintaining human activity. However, consuming energy not only causes global environmental issues such as global warming and energy resource depletion, but also causes local (urban) environmental issues such as heat island phenomenon and air pollution. We have been researching in our laboratory to clarify the way urban structures and the related energy systems should be built in the near future in order to realize a comfortable urban environment while maintaining a sustainable earth.<\/p>\n<table class=\"el_table_fix\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 20%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/up_load_files\/areas\/areas11_toshi\/NARUMI Daisuke.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"408\"><\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 80%\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;font-size: 12px;margin-left: -20px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Prof. NARUMI Daisuke<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;font-size: 12px;margin-left: -20px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">E-mail: narumi-daisuke<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> [at]<\/span> cc.okayama-u.ac.jp<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;font-size: 12px;margin-left: -20px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Sustainable Urban and Architectural Design\/Carbon Neutral\/Energy System\/Heat Island\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a class=\"el_linkBtn\" href=\"https:\/\/soran.cc.okayama-u.ac.jp\/html\/e79af4edc9004aa98013a101ec5a382a_en.html\">Directory of Researchers<\/a> \u3000<a class=\"el_linkBtn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.okayama-u.ac.jp\/user\/narumi\/index.html\">Link to homepage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>&lt;Sustainable cities and architecture design for the realization of zero-carbon society&gt;<\/h5>\n<p>Japanese Government has been aiming to realize carbon neutrality in 2050, but in order to achieve this, not only the active introduction of renewable energy, but also the transformation of urban structure and the practical application and popularization of ZEB \/ ZEH etc. and it is essential to continuously promote the creation of innovation for decarbonization. our Laboratory has been evaluating CO2 reduction measures in order to establish the ideal way of sustainable cities and architectural design methods in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>&lt;Thermal impacts on citizens due to global and local climate change in cities&gt;<\/h5>\n<p>In big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, in addition to global warming, the urban heat island phenomenon causes rapid warming, which has various effects on citizens such as energy \/ resources, health risks, and air pollution. Our Laboratory focuses on the aspect of the heat island phenomenon as an environmental issue for urban dwellers, quantifies the merits and demerits of the heat island phenomenon as much as possible, and conducts various analyse to propose rules for introduction method of countermeasures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table class=\"el_table_fix\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 20%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/up_load_files\/areas\/areas11_toshi\/WEI Chenghao02.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"408\"><\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 80%\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u3000Asst.Prof. WEI Chenghao\u3000<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u3000E-mail: wei<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">&nbsp;[at]<\/span> okayama-u.ac.jp<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;font-size: 12px;margin-left: -20px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<a class=\"el_linkBtn\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/soran.cc.okayama-u.ac.jp\/html\/c5c14defa8b1f5d03c8f9ec0ed19d09f_en.html\">Directory of Researchers<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: inherit\"> \u3000<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Energy is essential for maintaining human activity. 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