Robert Lowe

TL;DR: The results of the York Energy Demonstration Project (YEP) as discussed by the authors indicate that modernisation schemes have a very important part to play in reducing CO2 emissions and that improvements in the region of 50% can be achieved at modest cost using well proven (early 1980s) technology.

TL;DR: Energy, climate change and housing domestic energy conservation technologies structures of ownership and public policy landuse planning and energy efficiency energy, poverty and health the behavioural dimension case study 1 - the York Energy Demonstration Project case study 2 - the Longwood Low Energy House as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a critique of the energy efficiency aspects of the Building Regulations for England and Wales as they relate to dwellings and propose new approaches which would increase consistency and enable a clear programme of improvement to be established.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that there is a large gap between notional performance, as defined by the calculation methods embodied in the Building Regulations, and performance achieved in practice, and that closer attention to the methods used to estimate thermal performance, and the inclusion of hitherto unregulated aspects, could help to achieve a much closer match between what is expected and what is achieved.