Professor MARK GILLOTT's Outputs (24)

Utilising User Data from a Food-Sharing App to Evidence the "Heat-or-Eat" Dilemma (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Semple, T., Harvey, J., Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., Figueredo, G., & Nica-Avram, G. (2024, May). Utilising User Data from a Food-Sharing App to Evidence the "Heat-or-Eat" Dilemma. Presented at 2nd Digital Footprints Conference: Linking Digital Data for Social Impact, Bristol, UK

Introduction & Background
Previous literature has found that financially vulnerable households often make involuntary spending trade-offs between necessities, particularly energy and food. This effect is especially pronounced during winter, when hom... Read More about Utilising User Data from a Food-Sharing App to Evidence the "Heat-or-Eat" Dilemma.

Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Le, T. H. V., Gillott, M., & Rodrigues, L. Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Presented at XII International Scientific and Practical Forum “Environmentally Sustainable Cities and Settlements: Problems and Solutions” (ESCP-2023), Hanoi Capital, Vietnam

Overheating of premises is a typical thermal discomfort issue in naturally ventilated primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Several design parameters were shown to affect the indoor thermal environment. A parametric study was conducted and ba... Read More about Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Le, T. H. V., Gillott, M., & Rodrigues, L. Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Presented at VIII International Scientific and Technical Conference “Solving Environmental Problems in the Construction Industry” ESCI 2022, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Overheating of premises is a typical thermal discomfort issue in naturally ventilated primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Several design parameters were shown to affect the indoor thermal environment. A parametric study was conducted and ba... Read More about Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Review of Strategy for Assessing the Thermal Performance of Institutional Building Form in Hot Dry Climates of Nigeria (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adamu Bena, A., Gillott, M., & Boukhanouf, R. (2019, August). Review of Strategy for Assessing the Thermal Performance of Institutional Building Form in Hot Dry Climates of Nigeria. Presented at 18th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2019), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Achieving comfortable indoor environment in buildings in hot climates requires enormous amounts of cooling energy specifically if passive design techniques were not considered from the outset of the construction process. For instance, overheating in... Read More about Review of Strategy for Assessing the Thermal Performance of Institutional Building Form in Hot Dry Climates of Nigeria.

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.

An innovative method for the assessment of thermal comfort and resilience in social housing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gomez De Leon, A. B., Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., & Calautit, J. (2018, October). An innovative method for the assessment of thermal comfort and resilience in social housing. Presented at 6th International Academic Conference for Graduates, NUAA

Thermal evaluation of building envelopes is useful to approach efficient solutions for energy savings. Meteorological parameters represent an important role for this analysis. Future climate scenarios are considered to study climate behavior to provi... Read More about An innovative method for the assessment of thermal comfort and resilience in social housing.

Experimental study on the measurement of building infiltration and air leakage rate (at 4 and 50 Pa) by means of tracer gas methods, blower door and the novel pulse technique in a detached UK home (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vega Pasos, A., Zheng, X., Sougkakis, V., Gillott, M., Meulemans, J., Samin, O., Alzetto, F., Smith, L., Jackson, S., & Wood, C. J. (2018, September). Experimental study on the measurement of building infiltration and air leakage rate (at 4 and 50 Pa) by means of tracer gas methods, blower door and the novel pulse technique in a detached UK home. Presented at 39th AIVC - 7th TightVent & 5th venticool Conference, Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France

Air infiltration contributes to a heat loss typically representing up to one third of the heating demand of a building. The building airtightness, also quantified as air leakage, is the fundamental building property that impacts infiltration. The ste... Read More about Experimental study on the measurement of building infiltration and air leakage rate (at 4 and 50 Pa) by means of tracer gas methods, blower door and the novel pulse technique in a detached UK home.

The importance of socio-technical and community energy approaches to sustainability transitions: key concepts and examples (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, L., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2018, August). The importance of socio-technical and community energy approaches to sustainability transitions: key concepts and examples. Paper presented at 17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies Sustainable Energy Technologies for Eco Cities and Environment (SET 2018)

New approaches are needed to meet the challenges facing current and future energy systems. This paper explored this and how these challenges and solutions are critically social as well as technological. Crucial to this is conceptualising and develop... Read More about The importance of socio-technical and community energy approaches to sustainability transitions: key concepts and examples.

QUB/e: Validation of a transient method for determining whole building thermal performance and building element U-values in situ under actual operating conditions (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sougkakis, V., Wood, C., Meulemans, J., Gillot, M., & Cox, T. (2018, August). QUB/e: Validation of a transient method for determining whole building thermal performance and building element U-values in situ under actual operating conditions. Presented at 17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies – SET 2018, Wuhan, China

Growing evidence in recent years has suggested that a difference exists between the design and the as-built thermal performance of UK dwellings. This difference commonly known as the ‘performance gap’ may have serious implications on the UK governmen... Read More about QUB/e: Validation of a transient method for determining whole building thermal performance and building element U-values in situ under actual operating conditions.

Experimental studies of a pulse pressurisation technique for measuring building airtightness (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zheng, X., Cooper, E., Zu, Y., Gillott, M., Tetlow, D., Riffat, S., & Wood, C. (2018, August). Experimental studies of a pulse pressurisation technique for measuring building airtightness. Presented at 17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology (SET 2018), Wuhan, China

A pulse pressurisation technique is developed and utilised for determining building leakage at low pressure, based on a 'quasi-steady pulse' concept. The underlying principle of the technique is to subject the building envelope to a known volume chan... Read More about Experimental studies of a pulse pressurisation technique for measuring building airtightness.

A technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme: design and implementation challenges (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shipman, R., & Gillott, M. (2018, August). A technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme: design and implementation challenges. Presented at The 17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2018)

This paper describes a technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme. A range of sensors were deployed to measure in-home environmental conditions, occupancy, electrical power, electrical energy, thermal energy, heating be... Read More about A technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme: design and implementation challenges.

Experimental investigation of the impact of environmental conditions on the measurement of building infiltration, and its correlation with airtightness (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vega Pasos, A., Zheng, X., Sougkakis, V., Gillott, M., Meulemans, J., Samin, O., Alzetto, F., Smith, L., Jackson, S., & Wood, C. J. (2018, September). Experimental investigation of the impact of environmental conditions on the measurement of building infiltration, and its correlation with airtightness. Presented at 39th AIVC - 7th TightVent & 5th venticool Conference, Juan-Les-Pins, France

The air infiltration of a building, which fundamentally depends on its airtightness, can be a significant contributor to its heat loss. It can also be affected by other factors such as external terrain, leakage distribution, sheltering factor and env... Read More about Experimental investigation of the impact of environmental conditions on the measurement of building infiltration, and its correlation with airtightness.

An assessment of the QUB method for predicting the whole building thermal performance under actual operating conditions (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sougkakis, V., Meulemans, J., Alzetto, F., Wood, C., Gillott, M., & Cox, T. (2017, September). An assessment of the QUB method for predicting the whole building thermal performance under actual operating conditions. Paper presented at International SEEDS Conference 2017: Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society, Leeds, UK

A review of the potential of smart homes to support independent living (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fox, C., Rodrigues, L. T., Altomonte, S., & Gillott, M. C. A review of the potential of smart homes to support independent living. Presented at 16th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET2017)

Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years of age is expected to nearly double, from 12% to 22%. Whilst hospitals offer care to people with health problems, support at home is generally limited to carers, a costly l... Read More about A review of the potential of smart homes to support independent living.

An analysis of thermal comfort in primary schools in Vietnam (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Le, T. H. V., Gillott, M. C., & Rodrigues, L. T. An analysis of thermal comfort in primary schools in Vietnam. Presented at 16th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET2017)

There is a trend of installing air conditioning systems in public primary schools that are currently naturally ventilated in Vietnam. A previous study conducted by the authors provided evidence that there is limited need for air conditioning in Vietn... Read More about An analysis of thermal comfort in primary schools in Vietnam.

A system design for distributed energy generation in low temperature district heating (LTDH) networks (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, S., Gillott, M. C., Boukhanouf, R., Walker, G. S., Tunzi, M., Tetlow, D., Rodrigues, L. T., & Sumner, M. A system design for distributed energy generation in low temperature district heating (LTDH) networks. Presented at 16th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET2017)

Project SCENIC (Smart Controlled Energy Networks Integrated in Communities) involves connecting properties at the University of Nottingham’s Creative Energy Homes test site in a community scale, integrated heat and power network. Controls will be dev... Read More about A system design for distributed energy generation in low temperature district heating (LTDH) networks.