BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Current Research on Environment\, Energy\, Behaviour\, and Comfort in Buildings - Prof. Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge) DTSTART:20150428T110000Z DTEND:20150428T130000Z UID:TALK59054@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Dr. Eugene Mohareb DESCRIPTION:*Main speaker:* Prof Dean Hawkes \, Architect and Darwin Colle ge emeritus fellow\, Cambridge. \n\n*Title:* From Tradition to Precision: The origins of environmental science in the architecture of renaissance En gland\n\n*Abstract:* The design of sustainable buildings depends on our ab ility to quantify and predict the relationship between climate and archite cture. In his PhD project in Cambridge in the 1960s the speaker construct ed one of the first comprehensive computer simulation models of environmen tal processes in buildings. In recent years he has turned his attention t o the more historical and philosophical aspects of the field. This talk w ill describe how architecture and science came together in England from th e 16th to the 18th centuries to bring new understanding and precision to t he design of environments in buildings.\n\n*Biography:* Dean Hawkes is an architect and is emeritus fellow of Darwin College and emeritus professor of architectural design at Cardiff University. He was a founder member an d\, later Director of the Martin Centre in the Department of Architecture. He has held visiting professorships at schools of architecture in Hong K ong\, Singapore\, Glasgow\, Huddersfield and Leicester. His books include \, The Environmental Tradition (1996)\, The Environmental Imagination (200 8) and Architecture and Climate (2012). His buildings\, in partnership wi th Stephen Greenberg\, have received four RIBA Architecture Awards. In 20 00 he received the PLEA Award for his contribution to research teaching an d practice in environmental architecture and in 2010 he received the RIBA Annie Spink Award in recognition of his contribution to architectural educ ation.\n\n*Speaker 2:* Dr Jason Palmer and Nicola Terry\, Director and Ass ociate at Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd\, Cambridge.\n\n*Title:* Po wer and the Countryside: Hard choices to stay warm and keep the lights on\ n\n*Abstract:* This talk explores the barriers to making energy improvemen ts to homes and community buildings in rural areas\, using real examples f rom three locations around England – East Anglia\, Derbyshire and Somers et. We will highlight exemplary low-carbon buildings\, and present the fin dings of new modelling\, which projects forward from the 1990 baseline of carbon emissions caused by English homes\, to identify the reduction neede d by 2050 to achieve our national 80% reduction target. This includes esti mating the residual energy demand after a programme of improving both rura l and urban homes.  We then use scenarios to explore the landscape and la nd use implications of meeting this residual energy demand through new low carbon generation. \n \n*Biography:* Jason Palmer has worked for 13 years carrying out research\, writing and providing consultancy services about construction. He is currently a director of Cambridge Architectural Resear ch\, where he specialises in project management and modelling domestic ene rgy use and CO2 emissions. His experience includes managing the developmen t of the Cambridge Housing Model and DEMScot\, disseminating best practice \, post-occupancy evaluation\, and analysing large data sets.\n\nNicola Te rry works mainly as a consultant to DECC\, DEFRA and DCLG on household ene rgy use. She is also an author and disseminator of energy advice through w orkshops and on the internet (http://nicola.qeng-ho.org). She is currently an associate of Cambridge Architectural Research\, for whom she has contr ibuted to a variety of projects including literature surveys\, modelling h ome energy use\, statistical analysis and programming.\n\n*Speaker 3:* Hui Ben\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Architecture\, University of Cambridg e.\n\n*Title:* A Socio-Technical Approach to Thermal Comfort and Heating B ehaviour in UK Homes \n\n*Abstract:* This study presents a Socio-Technical System (STS) approach to compare occupant heating behaviour and thermal c omfort at home. The research adopts a user-centred approach to analyse emp irical evidence from different households living in Cambridge\, UK. It inc orporates a series of observations\, photo records\, diary records\, data logger monitoring\, questionnaire surveys and interviews. The results show significant gap between heating behaviour and thermal comfort\, and that the provision of heating does not necessarily lead to thermal comfort. An analysis using STS identifies the gap with the elements of technology\, oc cupant\, activity\, composition\, in the understanding of thermal comfort with respect to home performance. \n\n*Biography:* Hui is a Doctoral Resea rcher at University of Cambridge. She has graduated from MPhil in Archite cture by Research at University of Cambridge\, focusing on energy efficie ncy and occupant behaviour in housing. Hui’s current research continues on from the subject of environmental studies and aims to address the int erplay between occupant behaviour and building energy efficiency with a fo cus on thermal comfort and socio-technical system. LOCATION:Room SG1\, CRASSH Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid ge\, CB3 9DT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR