CREDS submitted a response to the call for evidence sent out by The House of Commons Select Committee on Science & Technology on 21st December 2018. Read it here.
CREDS submitted a response to the call for evidence sent out by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) on 7th December 2018. Read it here.
CREDS submitted a response to the call for evidence sent out by BEIS, “Energy Performance Certificates in buildings” on 19th October 2018. Read it here.
Two home living exhibitions were recently visited by CREDS researchers. Energy was not featured explicitly in either exhibition – a challenge to CREDS and the wider research community to ensure that future exhibitions about buildings and people take energy and materials use more seriously.
We are pleased to announce that we are looking to fund research proposals for two new ‘Energy Demand Challenges’. The UK Research and Innovation Energy Programme, primarily via EPSRC and ESRC, are funding our work as part of the second phase of a strategy to support the broad community of researchers and innovators in energy demand in the UK.
Done well, home insulation offers many benefits. It helps people achieve comfort at lower cost, lowers energy use and carbon emissions. However, done badly, it can have very negative effects.