As house prices increase, more people in the UK are converting lofts into additional rooms. However, overheating is a serious issue. This research asked three important questions:
- Are converted lofts more likely to overheat than other rooms in a house?
- What are the best adaptations for reducing loft overheating without using air conditioning?
- How do these adaptations compare in terms of cost-effectiveness?
Using building physics, researchers simulated indoor temperatures in a semi-detached London dwelling under current and future climate scenarios.
European Natural Gas through the 2020s
This working paper looks at a decade of extremes, contradictions and continuing uncertainties for the European gas system
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Valuing the reciprocating services that humans can provide to ecosystems
A new article co-authored by colleagues from the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity examines not only what ecosystems can do for humankind, but also how humans can ‘give back’ or reciprocate.
07 May 2025
Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees, ecology and imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)
A new article by Sertaç Sehlikoglu examines fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)
06 May 2025