Speaker: Siqi Lu
Title: The Built Environment Assessment of Residential Areas during the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak
Abstract:
The COVID-19 epidemic has emerged as one of the biggest challenges in the world, but there is still insufficient understanding of how environmental conditions may impact the COVID-19 pandemic. Airborne transmission is regarded as an important environmental factor that influences the spread of COVID-19. The natural ventilation potential (NVP) is critical for airborne infection control in the micro-built environment, where infectious and susceptible people share air spaces. This research takes Wuhan as the study area to evaluate the NVP in residential areas to combat COVID-19 during the outbreak. I used four fundamental residential area layouts based on the semantic similarity model for point of interest (POI) picking. The study results show that improvement of NVP in spatial and temporal scales and efficiency in the residential areas may help to combat COVID-19.
Date/Time/Location:
Friday, October 14th | 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | AUST 445
For more information, contact: Katie Lamb at katie.lamb@uconn.edu