The topic of our annual BRITE Workshop was “Air Quality in Urban Environments". Speakers from academia and industry discussed the latest initiatives, opportunities and challenges related to this field. The workshop will take place on June 12th on the VUB campus.
The agenda was as follows:
09.00: Welcome address – BRITE news
Pr. Julien Blondeau (VUB)
09.10: Numerical simulation of pollutant transport and dispersion in urban atmospheric flows: challenges, lessons learned and best practices.
Pr. Alessandro Parente (ULB)
09.40: Digital twins for high-resolution, real-time urban air quality assessment: a case study in Brussels.
Alessandro Gambale (BuildWind)
10.10: Coffee break
10.50: On local digital twins.
Ingrid Croket and Maxim Chantillon (IMEC)
11.20: Panel discussion – Building breathable cities
Panelists:
Alessandro Gambale (BuildWind), Pr. Maider Llaguno-Munitxa (UCLouvain), Pierre Dornier (Les chercheurs d’air)
Moderator:
Pr. Aurélie Bellemans (VUB)
11.50: Concluding remarks
Pr. Alessandro Parente (ULB)
12.00: Walking lunch
Please register using this Registration form