Professor Robert Lowe (Chair of Energy and Building Science at UCL Energy Institute) will be drawing on his experience with Part L of the Building Regulations and speaking on the physical issues around dwelling energy performance. He will also share ideas on the problems underlying the concept of zero carbon and mention how regulation might help in some of these areas.
Robert Lowe is a physicist with a broad interest in the field of buildings, energy and sustainability, and in the role of research in the transformation of building energy performance. Until 2006 he was at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he led the Buildings, Energy and Sustainability Group and directed numerous studies relating to climate change and the energy performance of housing. These culminated in the Stamford Brook Project, the first major field trial of energy efficient housing to be explicitly set up as an Action Research project. In February 2006 he joined UCL as Professor of Energy and Building Science. From 2004-2009 he was a member of the FMNectar Consortium supporting CLG in the development of UK building energy standards. In 2009, with Prof. TadjOreszczyn, he established the UCL Energy Institute and serves as Deputy Director. Since 2008 he has been Director of the London-Loughborough Doctoral Research Centre in Energy Demand. He is a member of UKERC, contributing to the Energy Demand Theme and leading on energy use in buildings.
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