Retrofitting the Built Environment

Table of Contents:
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 for action 7 Tim May, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin and Beth Perry 3 Openness in household energy use: The new Housing Energy Fact File 20 Jason Palmer, Ian Cooper and Martin Hughes 4 Retrofit innovation in the UK social housing sector: A socio-technical perspective 36 Will Swan PART 2 Policy and regulation 53 5 A roadmap to significant reductions in energy use for existing buildings: The long view 55 Stephen Morgan 6 Thermal retrofit and building regulations for dwellings in the UK 67 Stephen Todd 7 Retrofitting existing dwellings: Lessons from the policy instruments of front-runners 81 Lorraine Murphy PART 3 Implementing and evaluating retrofit 97 8 Make no assumptions: The selection of domestic retrofit improvements 99 Charlie Baker, Luke Smith and Will Swan 9 Life cycle assessment of refurbishment strategies for historical buildings 113 Gianluca Ruggieri, Giovanni Dotelli, Paco Melià and Sergio Sabbadini 10 FutureFit: Lessons for the Green Deal from a retrofit large-scale project in UK social housing 128 Alexandra Willey 11 Energy monitoring in retrofit projects: Strategies, tools and practices 141 Richard Fitton PART 4 Peoples and communities 155 12 Engaging residents in multifamily building retrofits: Reducing energy consumption and enhancing resident satisfaction 157 Patricia Gee and Lucrezia Chiappetta 13 Ensuring energy efficiency at the individual level: Getting psychologically informed 170 Philip Brown 14 Barriers to domestic retrofit: Learning from past home improvement experiences 184 Becky Mallaband, Victoria Haines and Val Mitchell 15 Low-energy design for non-experts: Usability in whole house retrofit 200 Marianne Heaslip Index 225

About the Author :
Will Swan is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Retrofit in the 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 and retrofit project delivery, as part of Salford’s Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group. He sits on the Greater Manchester Buildings Group and also is Chair of the Retrofit Innovation Group. Philip Brown is Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at the University of Salford. He is the lead academic on end-use energy demand within the Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group, and sits on Greater Manchester’s Low Carbon Economic Area group for Customer Engagement.