Household energy consumption in the UK: A highly geographically and socio-economically disaggregated model

Druckman, Angela; Jackson, Tim

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.03.021

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“…Allcott & Mullainathan, 2010;Dietz, Gardner, Gilligan, Stern, & Vandenbergh, 2009;Druckman & Jackson, 2008;Gill, Tierney, Pegg, & Neil, 2010;Lutzenhiser, 1993;Shorrock & Utley, 2008;Utley & Shorrock, 2006). These and other studies have addressed energy consumption in general, but very few have addressed heating demand temperature and patterns in particular.…”

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The shape of warmth: temperature profiles in living rooms

Huebner

McMichael

Shipworth

et al. 2014

Building Research & Information

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The most commonly used family of models in representing the UK building stock, BREDEM (the Building Research Establishment Domestic Energy Models), assume that all homes exhibit the same heating pattern and hence can be expected to have similar temperature profiles over the course of a day. The presented research shows that homes differ significantly in their respective temperature profile over the course of the day. A cluster analysis performed on temperature data from 275 living rooms in English homes over three winter months resulted in four different clusters of temperature profiles. The clusters differ significantly in their shape, as revealed by visual inspection, and supported by significant differences in minimum and maximum temperatures and temperature variability across the day. About 40% of homes showed a bimodal temperature pattern as assumed under BREDEM. However, the remaining 60% showed very different profiles. These findings challenge the assumption that one standard pattern fits all homes. Different temperature demand profiles have important implications for future peak power demands, particularly if domestic space heating is switched to electricity. It is also helpful for relating occupant demographics to appropriate forms of fabric retrofit.

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The shape of warmth: temperature profiles in living rooms

Huebner

McMichael

Shipworth

et al. 2014

Building Research & Information

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“…There have been a wide number of programmes put in place over the years with the aim of delivering this improvement: the Carbon Emissions Reduction Tariff (CERT) (Druckman and Jackson 2008), Warm Front (Gilbertson et al 2006) and the Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) (Reeves et al 2010), for example. The new Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (DECC 2010) programmes continue the UK's policy commitment to domestic retrofit.…”

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Retrofitting social housing: reflections by tenants on adopting and living with retrofit technology

Brown

Swan

Chahal³

2014

Energy Efficiency

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Retrofit has been described as one of the major engineering challenges of the twenty-first century (Kelly 2009). However, the industry needs to look beyond regarding the problem as restricted to the physical upgrade of properties. Asset managers, engineers and installers work on and in people's homes and, in many cases, are subsequently changing the way householders use their homes to meet their comfort and wider energy needs. Here we consider how the twin issues of adopting and living with retrofit technologies have affected groups of residents in social housing. We discuss issues of trust, social norms, engagement and concern that have shaped the adoption process, as well as investigating the everyday experience of living with new configurations of energy consumption. The findings have relevance not only for the social housing sector but also raise questions as to how to effectively deliver programmes such as the Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation within the UK.

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“…Traditional construction results in higher energy consumption and also, not using new, prefabricated and industrial materials, which are manufactured as series and energy and cost efficiently, are some of the effective factors in increasing energy consumption during the construction process [8].…”

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Criterion of Construction Process Investigation with a Vision of Sustainable Construction (in Iran with a Regard to UK)

Rezazadeh¹,

Rezazadeh²,

Balador³

et al. 2014

IJET

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Abstract-Considering the raise in energy and material costs, the importance of preserving the existing raw materials, and also the need of accommodation and reaching sustainable construction, this paper explores the methods of optimization of energy and material in the construction process.Studying and comparing construction process and energy use in Iran with developed countries ( which is England in this study) and reaching methods which causes a great difference in use, implementation methods and construction process and also recognizing the problems and proposing solutions to solve these problems can help us reach a sustainable construction.Index Terms-Construction problems, energy, waste of material, strategy, sustainable construction. I. INTRODUCTIONThe need to develop accommodation is inevitable because of the increase in young generation population and family numbers. This rapid growth has involved building experts and Non-specialists to solve the problem. But non standard construction has caused negative effects. Some of the consequences are because of lack of careful monitoring on the implementation of the regulations due to the large quantity of buildings, and lack of durability and sustainability of materials. Using improper material and inefficient methods which are aimed at decreasing the costs are the main reasons of many of these challenges.Comparing construction process in Iran with that of a developed country and recognizing its weak points and proposing strategies to solve the problems can play a great role in reaching sustainable construction which is one of the factors of sustainable developments.The present research was done in seven main fields which are as follows: material, work force, construction methods, master, energy, problems during function, building identification document. (Fig. 1)  Manuscript

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Household energy consumption in the UK: A highly geographically and socio-economically disaggregated model

Cited by 398 publications

References 6 publications

The shape of warmth: temperature profiles in living rooms

The shape of warmth: temperature profiles in living rooms

Retrofitting social housing: reflections by tenants on adopting and living with retrofit technology

Criterion of Construction Process Investigation with a Vision of Sustainable Construction (in Iran with a Regard to UK)

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