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A Toolkit for Weatherproofing Urban Homes in a Climate of Change
UCL IEDE lecturer Anna Mavrogianni is to present at RE.WORK Future Cities summit, held in London on 04-05 December 2014.…
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
Demolition or Refurbishment of Social Housing?
London tenants and residents facing demolition commissioned this report to review technical evidence for refurbishment v. demolition of social housing.…
UCL Urban Laboratory
Iqbal Hamiduddin participates in Grand Designs Live
Iqbal Hamiduddin participates in Grand Designs Live. 16 October 2014. Together with Channel 4 Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud and self–build guru Ted Stevens, Iqbal Hamiduddin – BSP Lecturer in Transport Planning and Housing –was a judge…
The Bartlett School of Planning
Prototype flood house wins Bartlett Materialisation Grant
Prototype flood house wins Bartlett Materialisation Grant. 26 August 2014. A collaborative team led by Matthew Butcher from The Bartlett School of Architecture and Rokia Raslan and Jonathon Taylor from The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies have…
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
C&PM academics win Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities grant
C&PM academics win Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities grant. 1 August 2014. A team of academics at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management and the Department of Geography have won funding from UCL’s Grand Challenge of…
The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
Fair Pay for Fair Use? Social Challenges to Individual Heat Metering
Current energy policies and popular opinion assume that paying for the heat you use to keep your home warm is entirely fair.…
UCL Energy Institute
UCL-Energy staff publish 'The shape of warmth: temperature profiles in living rooms'
UCL-Energy staff publish 'The shape of warmth: temperature profiles in living rooms'. 8 July 2014. The most commonly used family of models in representing the UK building stock, BREDEM (the Building Research Establishment Domestic Energy Models),…
UCL Energy Institute
A socio-technical approach to post-occupancy evaluation: interactive adaptability in domestic retrofit
A socio-technical approach to post-occupancy evaluation: interactive adaptability in domestic retrofit. 30 June 2014. Chiu, LF; Lowe, R; Raslan, RM; Altamirano, H; Wingfield, J; (2014) A socio-technical approach to post-occupancy evaluation:…
UCL Energy Institute
"Londoners 'priced out' of housing market": Peter Rees speaks to BBC News
Londoners 'priced out' of housing market": Peter Rees speaks to BBC News. 30 May 2014. The Bartlett School of Planning's Professor Peter Rees has spoken to BBC London political editor Tim Donovan about high-rise residential developments like the St…
The Bartlett School of Planning
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