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• Building energy and carbon performance: Closing the credibility gap

  

  Bill Bordass gives an overview of the present energy and carbon performance in buildings and outlines steps towards closing the credibility gap. »

• Energy benchmarks

  

  Hywel Davies attempts to de-mystify the application and use of Energy Benchmarks. »

• Towards Low Carbon Buildings - New Wine into Old Wineskins?

  

  CIBSE is the standard setter and authority on building services engineering. It publishes Guidance and Codes which are internationally recognised as authoritative, and sets the criteria for best practice in the profession. The Institution speaks for the profession and so is consulted by government on matters relating to construction,... »

• Low Carbon Buildings - Motivation and Objectives

  

  Mr Ward is currently a Reader in the School of Architecture (University of Sheffield). Mr Ward's research has mainly been in the area of building energy usage, in particular ventilation and air movement within buildings and energy issues related to building services systems. Mr Ward has... »

• Understanding, Shaping and Challenging the Built Environment

  

  Professor Rober Lowe is Professor of Energy and Building Science at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL). He is a physicist with a broad interest in the field of buildings, energy and sustainability. After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge from 1974-77, he joined the Open University Energy Research Group... »

• Design Approaches for Non-Domestic Low Carbon Buildings - UK and International Perspective

  

  Matthew started his career in 1986 as a mechanical design engineer working with a number of leading consulting engineers. In 1988 he attained a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Environmental Engineering at London South Bank University and subsequently became a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council.He then went on to... »

• Development of New Summer Design Years for London

  

  Jake Hacker has broad interests in fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer and environmental processes. He trained as an applied mathematician and spent the early part of his career in academic research carrying out theoretical, numerical and laboratory studies in environmental fluid dynamics. He joined ARUP Research and Development... »

• Future Development of Parts L (Energy) and F (Ventilation) of Building Regulations - A Personal View

  

  Robert Lowe is Professor of Energy and Building Science at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL). He is a physicist with a broad interest in the field of buildings, energy and sustainability. After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge from 1974-77, he joined the Open University Energy Research Group... »

• Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate Change Impacts and Outcomes (SCORCHIO)

  

  Professor Steve Sharples graduated with a First in Physics from the University of Nottingham and completed a PhD in wind-induced cooling of buildings at the University of Sheffield, where he eventually became Reader in Architectural Science. He took up the Chair of Environmental Design at Sheffield Hallam University... »

• Development of a Local Urban Climate Model and its Application to the Intelligent Development of Cities (LUCID)

  

  Professor Mike Davies is Professor of Building Physics and Environment at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL). He is also a member of Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES) research group.Professor Davies has a background in monitoring and modelling work in the field of the built environment. He... »