Energy use in buildings (5 of 5)

Bill Bordass and Adrian Leaman from the Usable Buildings Trust explain the neglect of post-installation energy use by the industry. They also propose solutions. More details below if you want to get involved in this area:

Buildings consume between 40-50% of final energy in the UK.  A considerable amount of this energy is wasted; through inefficiencies in our existing building stock, poor building management, and how people use the buildings they are in.  Large, often simple and cost effective opportunities therefore exist for significant reduction of the energy that our buildings use.  This is before even considering expensive, complex green technologies, which often prove less successful in practice as hoped.
 
Bill Bordass and Adrian Leaman are leading experts in the field of building energy performance.  They worked together on the landmark PROBE studies, which investigated the performance of more than twenty in-use 'innovative' buildings, providing crucial feedback about how our buildings actually perform.  They are co-founders of the Usable Buildings Trust -- a charitable organisation which disseminates results from building evaluation studies.   Their work has helped increase Industry and Government attention to the issue of poor building performance, and seen several schemes recently set up to help address the situation.




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