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DESCRIPTION:Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82229787692?pwd=JFjJkbxKai
 b9TpY9Mmay9Eg2qHVYWr.1\n\n“Heat Adaptation in Practice: Community-Facing
  Approaches to Extreme Heat in Singapore and India”\n\nwith Veerappan Sw
 aminathan\, CEO of SL2 Group\, Singapore\n\nDate/Time: Tuesday\, August 11
 \, 6pm – 7 pm Pacific Time\n\nAbstract:\n\nExtreme heat is an increasing
 ly urgent climate adaptation challenge\, especially for older adults and h
 eat-vulnerable households living in dense urban and tropical environments.
  While heat resilience is often discussed through the lens of policy\, urb
 an planning\, or public health\, effective adaptation also depends on prac
 tical socio-technical systems that can work in real homes\, care facilitie
 s\, and communities.\n\nThis talk will share lessons from two ongoing comm
 unity-facing projects: StayCool in Singapore\, which combines heat and hum
 idity sensors\, physiological wearables\, an app\, heat alerts\, and train
 ed volunteers to support vulnerable households\; and a heat adaptation pro
 ject at Muthiyor Nanban Home in Tamil Nadu\, India\, which uses site asses
 sment\, environmental measurement\, stakeholder engagement\, and targeted 
 interventions to improve thermal comfort for elderly residents. The talk w
 ill highlight implementation lessons for engineers interested in climate r
 esilience\, sensing\, community systems\, and adaptation in practice.\n\nS
 peaker(s): Veerappan Swaminathan\, \n\nAgenda: \n6:00 pm Introduction\n\n7
 :00 pm Adjourn\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/568260
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/568260
ORGANIZER:e.perkins@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:20
SUMMARY:SusTech Talk August 2026 – Heat Adaptation in Practice: Community
 -Facing Approaches to Extreme Heat in Singapore and India
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/568260
X-ALT-DESC:Description: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center\;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;
 font-size: 18pt\;&quot;&gt;Zoom Link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://us02web.zoom.us/j/822297876
 92?pwd=JFjJkbxKaib9TpY9Mmay9Eg2qHVYWr.1&quot;&gt;https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8222978
 7692?pwd=JFjJkbxKaib9TpY9Mmay9Eg2qHVYWr.1&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=
 &quot;text-align: center\;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 18pt\;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo\;Hea
 t Adaptation in Practice: Community-Facing Approaches to Extreme Heat in S
 ingapore and India&amp;rdquo\;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: cent
 er\;&quot;&gt;with &lt;strong&gt;Veerappan Swaminathan&lt;/strong&gt;\, CEO of SL2 Group\, Sin
 gapore&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center\;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date/Time:&lt;/strong&gt; Tu
 esday\, August 11\, 6pm &amp;ndash\; 7 pm Pacific Time&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstrac
 t:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify\;&quot;&gt;Extreme heat is an incre
 asingly urgent climate adaptation challenge\, especially for older adults 
 and heat-vulnerable households living in dense urban and tropical environm
 ents. While heat resilience is often discussed through the lens of policy\
 , urban planning\, or public health\, effective adaptation also depends on
  practical socio-technical systems that can work in real homes\, care faci
 lities\, and communities.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify\;&quot;&gt;This talk 
 will share lessons from two ongoing community-facing projects: StayCool in
  Singapore\, which combines heat and humidity sensors\, physiological wear
 ables\, an app\, heat alerts\, and trained volunteers to support vulnerabl
 e households\; and a heat adaptation project at Muthiyor Nanban Home in Ta
 mil Nadu\, India\, which uses site assessment\, environmental measurement\
 , stakeholder engagement\, and targeted interventions to improve thermal c
 omfort for elderly residents. The talk will highlight implementation lesso
 ns for engineers interested in climate resilience\, sensing\, community sy
 stems\, and adaptation in practice.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify\;&quot;&gt;
 &amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agenda: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;6:00 pm Introduction&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;7:00 
 pm Adjourn&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;
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