AI-driven Adaptive Architecture for Climate Resilience
urning weather into signals—and buildings into responses.
About This Course
A three-day, hands-on workshop to build an AI-assisted workflow that unites microclimate data, simulation, and ML to predict heat/wind/flash-flood stress, auto-tune façades/ventilation, and deploy closed-loop building- and canyon-scale controls with decision-grade KPIs.
Aim
Equip participants to build an end-to-end AI workflow that predicts heat/wind/flash-flood stress, auto-tunes façades/shading/ventilation, and deploys closed-loop controls and urban-canyon adaptations with decision-grade KPIs.
Application Details
This platform is an integrated learning and experimentation ecosystem for AI-driven heterogeneous catalysis. It combines structured modules, an AI sandbox for GNN modeling and EDA, real-time assessments, and an AI assistant (“CatalystBot”), with built-in techno-economic and life cycle analysis to evaluate performance, cost, and sustainability of catalytic designs.
Course Objectives
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Establish resilience KPIs & microclimate drivers.
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Assemble site data; run baseline E+/Honeybee/URBANopt/CFD; extract features.
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Train/validate fast ML surrogates for heat, wind, and flood.
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Optimize façade/shading/ventilation; auto-generate control schedules.
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Design rule-based/MPC control loops with sensing & fail-safes.
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Evaluate canyon-scale strategies; stress-test (heatwave + storm); deliver KPI dashboard & reproducible workflow.
Syllabus
📅 Day 1 – Fundamentals of CO₂ Capture, Catalysts & Data
- CO₂ Capture Routes & Products: post-/pre-combustion, DAC; RWGS, methanation, methanol
- Catalyst Families & Characterization: Ni/Co/Cu, bimetallics, perovskites; BET, XRD, XPS, TPD
- Data & Formats: OpenCatalyst/NIST, CSV/Parquet/JSON; units, metadata, reproducibility
- Thermo–Kinetics Essentials: selectivity, activity, stability; mass/heat transfer basics
- ML Landscape: baselines (ridge/XGB), feature engineering (DFT descriptors), GNNs
- Hands-on: Build a tidy catalyst dataset; normalize units; run EDA and simple baselines
📅 Day 2 – ML for Catalyst Design, Screening & Uncertainty
- Representations: graphs for crystals/surfaces, SMILES, SOAP; Δ-learning on top of DFT
- Modeling: message-passing GNNs, attention, transfer learning; multi-task property prediction
- Uncertainty & Calibration: ensembles, heteroscedastic heads, conformal prediction; CRPS
- Design of Experiments & BO: constraints (stability/cost), explore–exploit trade-offs
- Hands-on: Train a compact GNN on adsorption energies (OC subset); evaluate Top-K hits
📅 Day 3 – Process Integration, TEA/LCA & Operationalization
- Reactor & Process Options: fixed-bed, slurry, microchannel; RWGS/methanation loops
- TEA & LCA: cost drivers, carbon intensity, system boundaries (ISO 14040/44), sensitivity
- Monitoring & Control: soft sensors, digital twins, MPC basics for selectivity/yield
- MLOps: data pipelines, validation, drift monitoring, model cards & governance
- Safety & Compliance: HAZOP overview, IEC 61511, GHG Protocol reporting snapshots
- Hands-on: One-page concept report—flowsheet, KPIs, TEA/LCA snapshots, candidate shortlist
Who Should Enrol?
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Architects, façade/building services engineers, and urban designers/planners
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Building performance/ESG/resilience leads and sustainability consultants
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CFD/modeling practitioners and data/ML engineers working in AEC
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Graduate students/researchers in architecture, civil/environmental engineering, and urban climate
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Municipal resilience/Smart City teams and risk/climate adaptation professionals
Course Outcomes
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ML predictors for heat, wind, and flash-flood stress
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Auto-tuned façade/shading/ventilation + control schedules
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Closed-loop controller (rule-based/MPC-ready) with fail-safes
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Urban-canyon adaptation plan with trade-off analysis
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KPI dashboard and a reproducible end-to-end workflow/templates
Course fee
Learners in India
₹2,499
Learners outside India
$50
- Video lectures
- Study material
- Certificate after completion
- 365-day access
The recordings are being uploaded. They appear in your dashboard as soon as they are ready, and we will e-mail you then.
Frequently asked questions
How is this course taught?
Through recorded video lectures from the original live workshop, with the study material. Watch at your own pace, any time.
How long do I have access?
365 days from your registration, on your NanoSchool dashboard.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes, an e-certificate after completion, with a QR code anyone can verify and an "Add to LinkedIn" button.
How can I pay?
By card, UPI or PayPal on the payment page; international bank transfer is also available there.
What is the refund policy?
See our Returns, Refunds & Cancellation policy: Returns, Refunds & Cancellation policy
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