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Retrofitting social housing in the UK: Home energy use and performance in a pre-Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) (2014)
Journal Article
Elsharkawy, H., & Rutherford, P. (2015). Retrofitting social housing in the UK: Home energy use and performance in a pre-Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP). Energy and Buildings, 88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.11.045

Improving household energy efficiency is regarded as key to significantly curtailing domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Various policy instruments have been introduced to retrofit the existing domestic building stock in the UK; however, many fail to... Read More about Retrofitting social housing in the UK: Home energy use and performance in a pre-Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP).

Human factors in the design of sustainable built environments (2014)
Journal Article
Altomonte, S., Rutherford, P., & Wilson, R. (in press). Human factors in the design of sustainable built environments. Intelligent Buildings International, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2014.970121

Scientific research provides convincing evidence that climate change is having significant impacts on many aspects of life. In the built-environment domain, regulatory requirements are pushing the challenges of environmental, economic, and social sus... Read More about Human factors in the design of sustainable built environments.

Speech intelligibility in higher education teaching facilities (2014)
Journal Article
Paterson-Stephens, I., Rutherford, P., & Wilson, R. (2014). Speech intelligibility in higher education teaching facilities. Acoustics Bulletin, 39(2),

This paper expands upon the initial work conducted by Rutherford, Wilson and Hickman4 and explores the relationship between the Speech Transmission Index (STI) and its application within the context of higher education teaching and learning facilitie... Read More about Speech intelligibility in higher education teaching facilities.