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Professor LUCELIA RODRIGUES's Outputs (58)

The correlation of energy performance and building age in UK schools (2021)
Journal Article
Mohamed, S., Smith, R., Rodrigues, L., Omer, S., & Calautit, J. (2021). The correlation of energy performance and building age in UK schools. Journal of Building Engineering, 43, Article 103141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.103141

In response to the climate emergency crisis, the UK became the first major economy to commit to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By adopting energy efficiency measures, UK schools alone could prevent the release of 625,000 tonnes of CO2, th... Read More about The correlation of energy performance and building age in UK schools.

Overheating and indoor air quality in primary schools in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Mohamed, S., Rodrigues, L., Omer, S., & Calautit, J. (2021). Overheating and indoor air quality in primary schools in the UK. Energy and Buildings, 250, Article 111291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111291

It is estimated that school buildings in the UK are responsible for up to 15% of the total energy consumption of public and commercial buildings. Indoor thermal comfort and air quality in school classrooms are of global concern due to their significa... Read More about Overheating and indoor air quality in primary schools in the UK.

Characterising Brazilian Housing through an Investigation of Policies, Architecture and Statistics (2021)
Journal Article
Tubelo, R., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2021). Characterising Brazilian Housing through an Investigation of Policies, Architecture and Statistics. Journal of Architecture, 26(2), 191-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2021.1895279

Defining common housing characteristics such as typology, floor areas and occupancy rates can be challenging in many countries because of the prevalence of self-built and/or self-promoted accommodation. Yet, for researchers, designers and policy make... Read More about Characterising Brazilian Housing through an Investigation of Policies, Architecture and Statistics.

Comfort within budget: Assessing the cost-effectiveness of envelope improvements in single-family affordable housing (2021)
Journal Article
Tubelo, R., Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., & Zune, M. (2021). Comfort within budget: Assessing the cost-effectiveness of envelope improvements in single-family affordable housing. Sustainability, 13(6), Article 3054. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063054

In Brazil, the delivery of homes for low-income households is dictated by costs rather than performance. Issues such as the impact of climate change, affordability of operational energy use, and lack of energy security are not taken into account, eve... Read More about Comfort within budget: Assessing the cost-effectiveness of envelope improvements in single-family affordable housing.

We got the power: Predicting available capacity for vehicle-to-grid services using a deep recurrent neural network (2021)
Journal Article
Shipman, R., Roberts, R., Waldron, J., Naylor, S., Pinchin, J., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2021). We got the power: Predicting available capacity for vehicle-to-grid services using a deep recurrent neural network. Energy, 221, Article 119813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.119813

© 2021 Elsevier Ltd Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services utilise a population of electric vehicle batteries to provide the aggregated capacity required to participate in power and energy markets. Such participation relies on the prediction of available cap... Read More about We got the power: Predicting available capacity for vehicle-to-grid services using a deep recurrent neural network.

An Investigation Of The Luminous Environment In Nottingham H.O.U.S.E (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kankipati, L. S., Rodrigues, L., & Kiamba, L. (2020, September). An Investigation Of The Luminous Environment In Nottingham H.O.U.S.E. Presented at PLEA 2020 - Planning Post Carbon Cities Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, A Coruña, Spain

Daylight makes an important contribution to indoor quality and building occupants’ wellbeing and productivity. Although it is well known that different spaces need different lighting quality for tasks to be performed effectively, the issue of change... Read More about An Investigation Of The Luminous Environment In Nottingham H.O.U.S.E.

Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort (2020)
Journal Article
Rodrigues, L., Tubelo, R., Vega Pasos, A., Gonçalves, J. C. S., Wood, C., & Gillott, M. (2020). Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort. Building Research and Information, https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2020.1825064

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Airtightness refers to the amount of air leakage through a building’s envelope. This uncontrolled exchange of air between inside and outside, either infiltration or exfiltration, may lea... Read More about Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort.

Decarbonising our transport system: Vehicle use behaviour analysis to assess the potential of transitioning to electric mobility (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waldron, J., Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., Naylor, S., & Shipman, R. (2020, September). Decarbonising our transport system: Vehicle use behaviour analysis to assess the potential of transitioning to electric mobility. Presented at 35th PLEA Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA 2020). Planning Post Carbon Cities, A Coruna, Spain

The transport sector is responsible for over 20% of the global carbon emissions. One of the strategies to reduce its impact includes transitioning to electric vehicles (EV). However, this represents several challenges to existing cities, such as the... Read More about Decarbonising our transport system: Vehicle use behaviour analysis to assess the potential of transitioning to electric mobility.

The vulnerability of homes to overheating in Myanmar today and in the future: A heat index analysis of measured and simulated data (2020)
Journal Article
Zune, M., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2020). The vulnerability of homes to overheating in Myanmar today and in the future: A heat index analysis of measured and simulated data. Energy and Buildings, 223, Article 110201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110201

© 2020 The integration of vernacular strategies in Myanmar housing seems to have remained remarkably resilient and is still the norm even in modern dwellings. However, no regard is given to the possible impact of climate change. Using one-year monito... Read More about The vulnerability of homes to overheating in Myanmar today and in the future: A heat index analysis of measured and simulated data.

User engagement in community energy schemes: A case study at the Trent Basin in Nottingham, UK (2020)
Journal Article
Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., Waldron, J., Cameron, L., Tubelo, R., Shipman, R., Ebbs, N., & Bradshaw-Smith, C. (2020). User engagement in community energy schemes: A case study at the Trent Basin in Nottingham, UK. Sustainable Cities and Society, 61, Article 102187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102187

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd ‘Community Energy’ refers to people working together to reduce and manage energy use and increase and support local energy generation. It has the potential to support the infrastructural, social and cultural changes needed to redu... Read More about User engagement in community energy schemes: A case study at the Trent Basin in Nottingham, UK.

A review of traditional multistage roofs design and performance in vernacular buildings in Myanmar (2020)
Journal Article
Zune, M., Pantua, C. A. J., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2020). A review of traditional multistage roofs design and performance in vernacular buildings in Myanmar. Sustainable Cities and Society, 60, Article 102240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102240

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Myanmar's territory mostly experiences tropical monsoon climate, where temperatures are normally not extreme, but humidity can increase discomfort. In response, vernacular architecture strategies have evolved to deal with excess h... Read More about A review of traditional multistage roofs design and performance in vernacular buildings in Myanmar.

Where Will You Park? Predicting Vehicle Locations for Vehicle-to-Grid (2020)
Journal Article
Shipman, R., Waldron, J., Naylor, S., Pinchin, J., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2020). Where Will You Park? Predicting Vehicle Locations for Vehicle-to-Grid. Energies, 13(8), Article 1933. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13081933

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Vehicle‐to‐... Read More about Where Will You Park? Predicting Vehicle Locations for Vehicle-to-Grid.

Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia (2020)
Journal Article
Lechner, A. M., Gomes, R. L., Rodrigues, L., Ashfold, M. J., Selvam, S. B., Wong, E. P., Raymond, C. M., Zieritz, A., Sing, K. W., Billa, L., Sagala, S., Moug, P., Cheshmehzangi, A., Lourdes, K., Azhar, B., Sanusi, R., Ives, C. D., Tang, Y.-T., Tan, D. T., Chan, F. K. S., …Gibbins, C. (2020). Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia. Blue-Green Systems, 2(1), 331-351. https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.014

Low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia face a range of challenges related to the rapid pace of urbanisation in the region, the scale of pollution, climate change, loss of ecosystem services and associated difficulties for ecologi... Read More about Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia.

Vernacular passive design in Myanmar housing for thermal comfort (2019)
Journal Article
Zune, M., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2020). Vernacular passive design in Myanmar housing for thermal comfort. Sustainable Cities and Society, 54, Article 101992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101992

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Tropical weather is characterized by high humidity, high temperature, and intense solar insolation; therefore, traditional tropical housing is predominantly dependent on natural ventilation and passive cooling for thermal comfort.... Read More about Vernacular passive design in Myanmar housing for thermal comfort.

Ventilation performance of single zone occupied space in ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zune, M., Pantua, C., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. Ventilation performance of single zone occupied space in ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings. Presented at 10th International Conference IAQVEC 2019: Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings 5–7 September 2019, Bari, Italy

© 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Roof ventilation gives passive cooling effect in removing hot air from tropical climate buildings. However, little is known about the impacts of building parameters on the passive cooling effect i... Read More about Ventilation performance of single zone occupied space in ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings.

Thermal performance in single-zone occupied space ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zune, M., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. Thermal performance in single-zone occupied space ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings. Presented at 10th International Conference IAQVEC 2019: Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings, Bari, Italy

© 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Multistage roofs are dominant features in the ancient Myanmar buildings. They describe the cultural context, social status and are a response to the local climates. However, little is known about... Read More about Thermal performance in single-zone occupied space ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings.

Regulatory and policy framework for the uptake of renewable energy generation in the United Kingdom (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salazar, J., Waldron, J., & Rodrigues, L. (2019, August). Regulatory and policy framework for the uptake of renewable energy generation in the United Kingdom. Presented at 18th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Energy policies and regulations are constantly introduced to reflect the current developments of the energy system. The introduction of sustainable energy technologies creates a demand for alternative sources of energy and economic incentives which a... Read More about Regulatory and policy framework for the uptake of renewable energy generation in the United Kingdom.

Towards an electric revolution: a review on vehicle- to-grid, smart charging and user behaviour (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waldron, J., Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., Naylor, S., & Shipman, R. (2019, August). Towards an electric revolution: a review on vehicle- to-grid, smart charging and user behaviour. Presented at 18th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Special Report on Global warming, it is clear that there is a need of a rapid change in all aspects of society to achieve limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The transport sector alone... Read More about Towards an electric revolution: a review on vehicle- to-grid, smart charging and user behaviour.

A System Design for Distributed Energy Generation in Low-Temperature District Heating (LTDH) Networks (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, S. R., Gillott, M., Boukhanouf, R., Walker, G., Tunzi, M., Tetlow, D., Rodrigues, L., & Sumner, M. (2019). A System Design for Distributed Energy Generation in Low-Temperature District Heating (LTDH) Networks. Future Cities and Environment, 5(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/fce.44

Project SCENIC (Smart Controlled Energy Networks Integrated in Communities) involves connecting properties at the University of Nottingham’s Creative Energy Homes site in a community scale, integrated heat and power network. The system will use distr... Read More about A System Design for Distributed Energy Generation in Low-Temperature District Heating (LTDH) Networks.

Community Energy Networks in the Making: Project SCENe, Nottingham (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., Waldron, J. A., Cameron, L., Tubelo, R., & Shipman, R. (2018, December). Community Energy Networks in the Making: Project SCENe, Nottingham. Presented at PLEA 2018 - Smart and Healthy within the Two-Degree Limit: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Hong Kong, China

‘Community Energy’ refers to people working together to reduce and manage energy use, and increase and support local energy generation. It can help promote the infrastructural, social and cultural changes we need to reduce the impact of climate chang... Read More about Community Energy Networks in the Making: Project SCENe, Nottingham.