Heat mitigation

Social housing temperatures in NSW exceed health and safety limits: study

14 Sep 2022

Many low-income households can endure temperatures in their homes close to 40°C during summer and as little as 5°C during winter.

Light coloured roofs stay cool during summer

Are cool roofs the future for Australian cities?

15 Jun 2022

Outdoor air temperature and cooling energy consumption can be significantly reduced by solar reflective material, research finds.

a montage of a city on the water at day and night

Innovative building materials help moderate temperature year-round

15 Feb 2022

The next generation of supercooling materials can help keep cities cooler in summer and warmer in winter.

How machine learning can clean up our cities

03 Feb 2022

Computational design can identify greater efficiencies across the built environment, enabling us to create more sustainable cities.

Super cool building materials prove powerful arsenal against climate change

26 Oct 2021

New building materials that reflect rather than absorb solar energy can reduce peak temperatures in our cities by up to four degrees.

Researchers will develop a technology heat mitigation plan for one of the world's hottest cities

24 Aug 2020

Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Royal Commission has engaged UNSW’s High Performance Architecture team to reduce the city’s temperatures and make it more sustainable.

Parramatta study reveals ways to reduce city temperatures by 2°C

27 Aug 2019

Cooling strategies, such as increased greenery and shading and the installation of water features to mitigate urban heat can increase comfort by 50-60 per cent.

Cooling Darwin: UNSW plan to fight climate change

03 Sep 2018

Urban overheating threatens the lives of people in Darwin, but researchers from UNSW's Faculty of Built Environment have calculated how many lives could be saved by changing the city.