Embodied emissions in buildings could be a hidden setback for carbon reduction targets.
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More ambitious plans for making the UK’s homes energy efficient could create 22,545 new full-time jobs.
Turning down your heating by just 1°C can save around £55 a year.
The government’s failure to insulate housing stock has meant that households aren’t insulated from record energy prices.
Climate activists don’t have to be popular to achieve their goals.
Insulate Britain, a new environmental campaign group, is right to highlight the need for action on home insulation.
The ratings used to assess energy efficiency in homes throughout Europe are often inaccurate.
Victoria’s $800 million energy efficiency plan promises to lower power bills, make homes more comfortable and help meet our climate goals. It’s high time other states picked this low-hanging fruit.
As the UK heads into a recession, here are some simple - and cheap - tips to reduce utility bills and make less of an impact on the planet.
Climate change is making extreme weather events, both hot and cold, more frequent across the Great Lakes region. Weatherizing low-income residents’ homes is an important way to prepare.
It’s often more effective, cheaper and less controversial than other efforts to confront climate change.
In the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, France has committed to cutting achieving carbon neutrality for its building stock by 2050. While the goal is ambitious, the challenges are significant.
Aged-care units can be a lottery of comfortable versus uncomfortable temperatures, depending on the building’s construction and where you live within it. That needs to improve.
Before you spend up on heating and cooling, here are a few simple retrofits to try first.
Power-hungry houses that rely on air conditioning to make up for their bad design mean that the electricity grid has to cope with summer demand peaks – and everybody pays.
Scotland’s failure to meet target illustrate a worldwide problem - the right to adequate heating and energy is not being properly recognised.
Improving energy efficiency is not an option for a significant number of people in Australia – renters.
How Messrs Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz could hold the key to the future.
Have you thought about usable space, re-engineering, structural integrity, contamination, insulation and comfort? If not, you need to before jumping into building a home from shipping containers.
There’s loads of advice out there on how to save energy. But how much of it is based on real scientific evidence?
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Professor in Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer - Energy, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Advanced Building Design, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University
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Professor of Sustainable Energy Business and Policy, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of York
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Professor of Biomechanics, University of Hull
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Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy, Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Sydney
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Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University
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Distinguished Fellow, Sustainable Solutions Lab, UMass Boston
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Reader in Political Sociology, Aston University
