Urban Heat Island Mitigation: The Roles Of Landscapes And Green Roofs
This online engineering PDH course examines the causes and impacts of urban heat islands and the role of landscapes and green roofs in mitigating them.
Urban heat islands make cities significantly warmer than their surrounding rural areas, increasing energy demand for cooling, worsening air quality, raising heat-related health risks, and adding economic costs for communities and infrastructure.
Cooling needs vary according to climate, urban form, building materials, vegetation cover, and neighborhood conditions, requiring strategies that are matched to local microclimates and supported by measurement and modeling of their cooling benefits.
This course covers the science of evapotranspiration and shading, urban microclimates and thermal comfort, urban forests and street trees, parks and green corridors, cool pavements and water features, and extensive and intensive green roofs. It also emphasizes policy frameworks and incentives, maintenance and long-term performance, case studies from cities worldwide, climate adaptation, and equity in urban cooling.
This 2 PDH online course is applicable to civil and environmental engineers, as well as other technical professionals who are interested in learning more about urban heat island mitigation and its applications in landscape and building design.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the urban heat island effect, its causes, and its environmental, health, and economic impacts
- Explaining how evapotranspiration, shading, and urban microclimates affect cooling and thermal comfort
- Familiarizing with landscape strategies such as urban trees, parks, green corridors, cool pavements, and water features
- Understanding extensive and intensive green roofs and their thermal, energy, and stormwater benefits
- Explaining policy frameworks, incentives, and maintenance needs for urban cooling, with case studies
- Understanding climate adaptation trends and equity considerations in urban cooling
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Urban Heat Island Mitigation: The Roles Of Landscapes And Green Roofs”, prepared by Amr Abouseif.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of ten (10) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.