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From social and technical to socio-technical: integrated research on domestic energy efficiency
From social and technical to socio-technical: integrated research on domestic energy efficiency. 1 October 2015. Research understanding energy consumption is usually approached from either an engineering or social science perspective. The result is…
UCL Energy Institute
Assessing uncertainty in housing stock infiltration rates and associated heat loss: English and UK case studies
Assessing uncertainty in housing stock infiltration rates and associated heat loss: English and UK case studies. 1 October 2015. Strategies to reduce domestic heating loads by minimizing the infiltration of cold air through adventitious openings…
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
Future Energy Blog - energy policy: rationalisation or politicisation?
Future Energy Blog - energy policy: rationalisation or politicisation? 30 September 2015. "The Conservative government inherited a problem in energy policy. So did the Coalition government before it', writes Prof Michael Grubb in the first in a…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Optimising energy storage to balance high levels of intermittent renewable generation
Optimising energy storage to balance high levels of intermittent renewable generation. 30 September 2015. Optimising energy storage to balance high levels of intermittent renewable generation. 33rd USAEE/IAEE North American Conference Pittsburgh, USA…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
ISR Professor responds to Shell Arctic drilling decision
ISR Professor responds to Shell Arctic drilling decision. 29 September 2015. UCL ISR Director Prof Paul Ekins OBE, commented in response to Shell's recent decision to abandon oil drilling operations in the Arctic saying:. "I hope that Shell’s…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
UCL Urban Laboratory launches university-led urban regeneration case studies
UCL Urban Laboratory launches university-led urban regeneration case studies. 29 September 2015. UCL Urban Laboratory has today launched five case studies in university and community-led urban regeneration (download below), which explore the role of…
UCL Urban Laboratory
UCL Energy Institute Director comments on Volkswagen emission tests
UCL Energy Institute Director comments on Volkswagen emission tests. 29 September 2015. Professor Bob Lowe, Director of the UCL Energy Institute has responded to the recent news of Volkswagen's emission tests of it's diesel-powered vehicles:. 'It…
UCL Energy Institute
UCL-Energy shipping expert comments on shipping industry progress ahead of COP21
UCL-Energy shipping expert comments on shipping industry progress ahead of COP21. 29 September 2015. Dr Tristan Smith, Lecturer in Energy and Transport at UCL Energy Institute, has commented on the recent key messages launched by the International…
UCL Energy Institute
Computing Britain with Dr Hannah Fry
Computing Britain with Dr Hannah Fry. 28 September 2015. In a recent documentary series for BBC Radio 4, Dr Hannah Fry looks back over 75 years of computing history in Britain. Starting with the creation of computer memory in the 1940s,…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Dr Rodrigo Firmino to investigate surveillance and security in cities
We are pleased to announce that Dr Rodrigo José Firmino is to begin a 12-month position as UCL Urban Laboratory Honorary Senior Research Associate, following a research agenda titled "Connected Spaces, Controlled Movements: Technology, Surveillance,…
UCL Urban Laboratory