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Urban Space Engineering Lab
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A lab that protects buildings and people from urban heat and fire.
AboutAbout the lab
Considering the environment and fire safety of urban spaces.
The Urban Space Engineering Lab studies how to maintain everyday environments in buildings and cities, and how to ensure safety in the event of a fire.
The lab aims to integrate urban and building environments well while reducing energy use and CO2.
Ensuring safety in a fire in new kinds of spaces, such as huge high-rise buildings and underground spaces, is also an important theme.
Through experiments and analysis of how fires burn and how smoke spreads, the lab aims to realize fire-resistant timber buildings and buildings that allow safe evacuation.
Key terms
- Urban overheating
- The process by which a city gets hotter as heat accumulates in buildings and pavement.
- Solar radiation
- The light and heat that reach the ground from the sun.
- Daylight
- Brightness during the day from sunlight.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the adjustment of everyday environments and the control of environments for safety in emergencies. It also conducts basic research on using outdoor weather and on simulating the built environment, and studies ways to ensure environmental performance and fire safety as building performance, from design through management.
*Illustrative imageControlling Heat and Light in Buildings and Cities
The lab studies methods for comprehensively controlling the thermal and lighting environments in spaces such as offices and stations. Preventing urban overheating in summer requires keeping air flowing between buildings, and arranging buildings and choosing exterior wall materials so that heat from solar radiation does not accumulate.
*Illustrative imageMaking Fire Safety Visible
Many people think that fires rarely happen, or that they would be fine even if one did, which is one reason fire damage never disappears. The lab studies technologies that show possible fires in visible form and in numbers, and that predict and reduce fire damage to buildings and cities.
*Illustrative imageFire-Resistant Building Structures and Timber Buildings That Do Not Collapse Even When Burned
Steel and concrete also lose strength at high temperatures, so the lab studies the properties of materials at high temperatures in order to use each material where it fits best. It also studies "timber buildings that do not collapse even when burned," which extinguish themselves through the choice of tree species and the combination of materials.
*Illustrative imageDaylight and Weather Observation and New Measurement Methods
Building environments are affected by outdoor weather. At the lab's daylight and weather observatory, it measures weather elements that change with season, time of day, and weather, such as the brightness of daylight and the amount of solar radiation, which ordinary Japan Meteorological Agency stations do not measure.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKazunori Harada
- Associate ProfessorDaisaku Nii
- Assistant ProfessorAnyang Sun
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “2003 fire in Seattle Municipal Building” Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Controlling Heat and Light in Buildings and Cities: “Concourse at Manchester Piccadilly Train Station - geograph.org.uk - 7101887” Ian S / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Making Fire Safety Visible: “Fire Drill” Victor I. Daniel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Fire-Resistant Building Structures and Timber Buildings That Do Not Collapse Even When Burned: “Structural Fire Resistance ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Daylight and Weather Observation and New Measurement Methods: “Pyranometr CMP22” A. Kardaś / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural History Lab): “Exterior facade of Kannon Hall Buddhist temple with Goshikimaku Buddhist flags Ninna-ji Kyoto Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Human Settlement Studies Lab): “Village house in Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Building Safety Control Lab): “Earthquake damage in San Francisco's Marina District on the north side of the city from the Loma Prieta Earthquake” Nancy Wong / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Living Space Environmental Control Lab): “Interior of a traditional Japanese house” TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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