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Urban Adapt LLC is a consulting group focused on the design and development of heat risk assessments and climate adaptation plans for cities. Our approach to heat risk assessment estimates all dimensions of human heat vulnerability, including population exposure to extreme air temperatures, health impacts at the neighborhood scale, and household adaptive capacity. Through the mapping of both extreme temperatures and heat-related deaths by neighborhood, coupled with the simulation of how health outcomes change in response to heat management strategies, Urban Adapt is the only consulting group combining high-resolution heat risk mapping with neighborhood-scale health impact assessment.

Heatwave
Heat Wave + street trees
Figures: Our approach simulates air temperature and humidity exposures for extreme heat events. These maps illustrate the distribution of air temperatures across the downtown district of Atlanta, Georgia during a historical heat wave event. The map on the left illustrates exposures under present day conditions; the map on the right illustrates how heat exposures for the same event would change in response to a more extensive canopy of street trees.

Urban Adapt LLC is staffed by researchers from the Urban Climate Lab of the Georgia Institute of Technology (urbanclimate.gatech.edu), which has been partnering with cities in the development of heat management strategies and plans for more than a decade. More information on our approach can be found here. Please contact us for more information on our services: inquiries@urbanadapt.us.