Building Market Transformation

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Geography and Environmental Studies)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy

Dr B Boardman
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2004

31 March 2009

54 months

£965,373

Energy

South East

Infrastructure and Environment -- Process Environment and Sustainability

Dr B Boardman, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Professor PFG Banfill, Sch of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University
Professor J Clarke, Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Professor GP Hammond, Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
Professor T Jackson, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
Professor P Jones, Architecture, Cardiff University
Professor T Oreszczyn, Bartlett Sch of Env, Energy & Resources, University College London

Dr K Lane, University of Oxford

Project Contact, Faber Maunsel

Building Market Transformation will identify how to halve carbon emissions from UK buildings by 2030 through direct action. This includes all uses of energy in the domestic and non-domestic sectors, except for industrial processes. Most external factors, such as the carbon intensity of the electricity supplied to the building, will be excluded, although the carbon embodied in the new interventions will be considered through life cycle analysis. The opportunities will be identified, in collaboration with the three other Carbon Vision projects, to include:Extensive debate with users and providers of buildings, including regular workshops to identify consensus;Rigorous analysis of the technical options available and discussions with materials manufacturers; Assessment of known social trends and the potential to harness public motivation;Analysis of a range of the major policy tools, including fuel prices, and the way to combine these to maximum effect; A radical reassessment of the opportunities for the Building Regulations, in comparison with international standards; Detailed modelling of current consumption and the proposed changes, validated against annual energy use and carbon emissions. The models produced will be publicly available in a useful, useable format

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