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Commercial action against urban heat islands

One of the most overheated spots in urban areas are commercial centres, supermarkets, and outdoor shopping malls. Flat open roofs and large parking lots bare of any shade mark the concrete wasteland of such urban features. Additionally, a high volume…

Greening the city

Urban heat islands (UHIs) have become a well-known issue in built-up areas of large cities. A recent study shows that temperatures in UHIs are on average 5⁰C higher than in surrounding areas. Since a growing proportion of the population in…

SUTEE contribution to EDUCON 2024 conference

SUTEE partners have presented the communication titled “IoT and generative AI technologies to support urban environmental learning” in the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2024 held in Kos (Greece) on May 11-13, 2024. This paper focuses on the critical…

SUTEE in curriculum development

Teacher education in Austria currently undergoes major redesign. This includes a new approach to the curricula currently studied by thousands of prospective teachers for primary, secondary and vocational schools. PHW has been running a very complex development process that also…

The Life (and Death) of Urban Trees

Urban trees live in symbiosis with human habitation. Often for centuries. Their lives are entirely different to that of forest trees. Over their long lifespan, urban trees witness generations of people come and go. They offered shade to historic events…

IoT Workshop for High School Students at ETSISI

On April 9-10, 2023, ETSISI (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos) de la UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) hosted a workshop aimed at high school students interested in studying computer science. The event took place at our campus…

Hugging trees for Health

Tree hugging has increased in popularity in recent years. You don’t have to be a shaman or druid to feel the benefits of getting close to nature and to trees especially. Figure 1. The SUTEE project team around a campus…