Housing latest
259 results
Blog: It's time for a new debate about low-carbon heating
Blog: It's time for a new debate about low-carbon heating. 22 May 2014. Most people in the UK heat their homes using boilers powered by natural gas, but this cannot continue in the long term if the 2050 target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by…
UCL Energy Institute
The Housing, Energy and Wellbeing (HEW) Project
The Housing, Energy and Wellbeing (HEW) Project. 12 May 2014. Funded by the EPSRC and managed by staff at the The Complex Built Environment Systems group (CBES) at UCLinvestigates Integrated decision making about housing, energy and well-being, and…
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
WUF7 conversations on the road to defining the Habitat III agenda for cities
Last week many members of the Development Planning Unit attended the 7th World Urban Forum in Medellin, Colombia.…
Development Planning Unit
A coupled summer thermal comfort and indoor air quality model of urban high-rise housing
A coupled summer thermal comfort and indoor air quality model of urban high-rise housing. 13 April 2014. A coupled summer thermal comfort and indoor air quality model of urban high-rise housing. 8th Windsor Conference: Counting the Cost of Comfort…
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
A coupled summer thermal comfort and indoor air quality model of urban high-rise housing
A coupled summer thermal comfort and indoor air quality model of urban high-rise housing. 13 April 2014. A coupled summer thermal comfort and indoor air quality model of urban high-rise housing. 8th Windsor Conference: Counting the Cost of Comfort…
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
DPU part of side-event on Right to Housing at the 25th Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva
DPU part of side-event on Right to Housing at the 25th Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva. 17 March 2014. The guiding principles for Adequate Housing and Security of Tenure produced by UN Special Rapporteur in Adequate Housing and Human…
Development Planning Unit
Tackling the housing crisis: C&PM student joins innovation panel
Tackling the housing crisis: C&PM student joins innovation panel. 17 February 2014. Christopher Worrall, BSc Project Management for Construction student, shared his dissertation research with an innovation panel formed by Family Mosaic to evaluate…
The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
UCL-Energy researchers investigate radon-related risk of lung cancer in English dwellings
UCL-Energy researchers investigate radon-related risk of lung cancer in English dwellings. 11 February 2014. Researchers at the UCL Energy Institute and the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies joined with researchers at the London School of Hygiene…
UCL Energy Institute
Children, parents and home energy use: Exploring motivations and limits to energy demand reduction
Children, parents and home energy use: Exploring motivations and limits to energy demand reduction. 1 February 2014. Children, parents and home energy use: Exploring motivations and limits to energy demand reduction. Energy Policy, 65 351-358. Fell,…
UCL Energy Institute
Children, parents and home energy use paper published
Children, parents and home energy use paper published. 22 January 2014. 'Children, parents and home energy use: Exploring motivations and limits to energy demand reduction', a paper written by UCL-Energy Principal Research Associate Lai Fong Chiu,…
UCL Energy Institute