All Outputs (9)

Post-Occupancy Evaluation in Post-Disaster Social Housing in a Hot-Humid Climate Zone in Mexico (2023)
Journal Article

In Mexico, the national fund for disasters (FONDEN) spent up to USD 800 million yearly building low-income housing for victims of highly destructive disasters. Since 2002, a total of 34 thousand new houses have been built as a response to Hurricane I... Read More about Post-Occupancy Evaluation in Post-Disaster Social Housing in a Hot-Humid Climate Zone in Mexico.

Improving building thermal performance through an integration of Passivhaus envelope and shading in a tropical climate (2021)
Journal Article

Due to the success of the energy-efficient Passivhaus building envelope and its principles in regulating indoor thermal comfort in European climates, the potential implementation of it in other climates has been subjected to much attention in recent... Read More about Improving building thermal performance through an integration of Passivhaus envelope and shading in a tropical climate.

Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter

In March 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) government ruled that householders must stay home as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak to help flatten the curve of the epidemic and reduce the exponential growth of the virus. Commercial activities, workplace... Read More about Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK.

Characterising Brazilian Housing through an Investigation of Policies, Architecture and Statistics (2021)
Journal Article

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

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.

Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort (2020)
Journal Article

© 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.

User engagement in community energy schemes: A case study at the Trent Basin in Nottingham, UK (2020)
Journal Article

© 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.

Community Energy Networks in the Making: Project SCENe, Nottingham (2019)
Conference Proceeding

‘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.

Cost-effective envelope optimisation for social housing in Brazil's moderate climates zones (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Brazil faces a housing deficit of more than 5.5 million units and nearly 11 million existing homes present inadequate living conditions. In response, the Brazilian government launched in 2009 a mass social housing programme with a... Read More about Cost-effective envelope optimisation for social housing in Brazil's moderate climates zones.