Swan / Brown Retrofitting the Built Environment

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-27347-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

The physical upgrading of the existing domestic and industrialbuilding stock to improve energy performance is an essential partof a transition to a low carbon society. Successfully retrofittingbuildings to improve energy performance is not simply atechnological challenge, it is a complex socio-technical problemthat needs to be addressed in a co-ordinated way, utilising skillsand knowledge from a range of industrial and academicbackgrounds.
Within both the academic and practitioner communities there is agrowing understanding of the scale and nature of the problem, onewhich encompasses issues such as policy and regulation, people andbehaviour, supply chain and process, as well as issues oftechnology. Retrofitting the Built Environment discusses thefactors that impact on the retrofit problem, providing a clearanalysis of the main issues that the academic and industrialcommunities must engage with to resolve the problems of domesticenergy and retrofit. The book is divided into four broadsections:
* Understanding the Problem
* Policy and Regulation
* Implementing and Evaluating Retrofit
* People and Communities
Academic and industrial researchers, policy makers and industrypractitioners will find each section covers a mix of policy,technical and social science issues, presented by both academic andindustry authors, giving a wide and detailed perspective of theissue.
The Editors
Will Swan is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Retrofit inthe School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford.He leads a number of projects in the field of sustainable retrofit,covering a number of topics including monitoring, behaviour andretrofit project delivery, as part of Salford's AppliedEnergy and Buildings Research Group. He sits on the GreaterManchester Buildings Group and also is Chair of the RetrofitInnovation Group.
Philip Brown is Director and Senior Research Fellow atthe Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at theUniversity of Salford. He is the lead academic on end-use energydemand within the Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group, andsits on Greater Manchester's Low Carbon Economic Area groupfor Customer Engagement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swan, William

Brown, Philip

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors vii
Foreword
Kevin Anderson xv
1 Retrofitting the built environment: An introduction 1
Will Swan and Philip Brown
PART 1 Understanding the problem 5
2 Achieving 'systemic' urban retrofit: A framework foraction 7
Tim May, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin and Beth Perry
3 Openness in household energy use: The new Housing Energy FactFile 20
Jason Palmer, Ian Cooper and Martin Hughes
4 Retrofit innovation in the UK social housing sector: Asocio-technical perspective 36
Will Swan
PART 2 Policy and regulation 53
5 A roadmap to significant reductions in energy use for existingbuildings: The long view 55
Stephen Morgan
6 Thermal retrofit and building regulations for dwellings in theUK 67
Stephen Todd
7 Retrofitting existing dwellings: Lessons from the policyinstruments of front-runners 81
Lorraine Murphy
PART 3 Implementing and evaluating retrofit 97
8 Make no assumptions: The selection of domestic retrofitimprovements 99
Charlie Baker, Luke Smith and Will Swan
9 Life cycle assessment of refurbishment strategies forhistorical buildings 113
Gianluca Ruggieri, Giovanni Dotelli, Paco Melià and SergioSabbadini
10 FutureFit: Lessons for the Green Deal from a retrofitlarge-scale project in UK social housing 128
Alexandra Willey
11 Energy monitoring in retrofit projects: Strategies, tools andpractices 141
Richard Fitton
PART 4 Peoples and communities 155
12 Engaging residents in multifamily building retrofits:Reducing energy consumption and enhancing resident satisfaction157
Patricia Gee and Lucrezia Chiappetta
13 Ensuring energy efficiency at the individual level: Gettingpsychologically informed 170
Philip Brown
14 Barriers to domestic retrofit: Learning from past homeimprovement experiences 184
Becky Mallaband, Victoria Haines and Val Mitchell
15 Low-energy design for non-experts: Usability in whole houseretrofit 200
Marianne Heaslip
Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Will Swan is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Retrofit inthe School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford.He leads a number of projects in the field of sustainable retrofit,covering a number of topics including monitoring, behaviour andretrofit project delivery, as part of Salford's AppliedEnergy and Buildings Research Group. He sits on the GreaterManchester Buildings Group and also is Chair of the RetrofitInnovation Group.
Philip Brown is Director and Senior Research Fellow atthe Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at theUniversity of Salford. He is the lead academic on end-use energydemand within the Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group, andsits on Greater Manchester's Low Carbon Economic Area groupfor Customer Engagement.