Retrofit Salary Sacrifice
This project analyses deep renovation policy initiatives and policy mixes across the world.
Heating and comfort
We are looking at the impact Covid has had on domestic heating behaviour and energy use during lockdown to provide a unique insight into the radical change in heating practices that can occur.
Commuting and business travel
We are looking at how remote working altered commuting and business travel patterns during the pandemic and whether these changes are likely to continue.
Space, time and infrastructure
We are advancing our modelling work in heating decarbonisation and transport decarbonisation to assess how we can reduce the cost of network infrastructure needed for net-zero, given future energy demand scenarios from the post-Covid recovery.
Local Green New Deals
We are looking at local responses to climate concerns, and in particular how these are being integrated with local responses to the economic and social problems arising from the pandemic.
Place-based business models for net-zero
We’re exploring how digital living & working imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic can inform place-based business models and energy demand reduction.
Digital twins
This project will investigate opportunities for using digital twins in the built environment and their use in transforming energy use and progress towards net-zero.
Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge
This project provides an evidence base of how community groups are responding to opportunities for Community Led DSR and Collective Self-Consumption.
Telecommuting and UK energy demand
UK National Travel Survey data allows us to examine not only the travel behaviours of telecommuters, but also travel impacts of telecommuting on their whole households.
Impact of 5G technology
This project will review evidence on 5G’s energy use, then construct scenarios where 5G has both positive and negative impacts on energy consumption.
CoCo Hybrid Project
This project is looking at how Compact Combination (CoCo) hybrid heating appliances could kickstart a rapid large-scale uptake of low carbon heating into the stock, providing flexibility, comfort, reliability, and familiarity for occupants.
Old for new? Mapping skills and communication networks for local traditional and off-site modular building energy retrofit
This project uses Social Network Analysis to map the skills and communication networks of supply chain actors recruited into local traditional and off-site modular building retrofitting strategies.
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