Utilising resident feedback to inform energy-saving interventions at the Barbican

Behar, Carrie

doi:10.1080/13549839.2013.810205

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“…The four papers seek theoretical grounding in two main families of literatures: evaluation studies (Chmutina et al 2014, Sherriff 2014, Behar 2014) and social practice studies (Higginson et al 2014). They are all at the intersection between these literatures and a concern with energy and the built environment.…”

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“…Following a similar line of enquiry, Higginson et al (2014) question the relationship between practice and the household time-shifting of energy demand in order to understand demand flexibility better. Behar's (2014) paper mainly draws on the building evaluation literature, more specifically building use studies (BUS) and post occupation evaluation (POE) studies which look at building (energy) use and performance. In order to respond to the main limitation of this literature -i.e.…”

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“…Keeping with the theme of the domestic, Behar (2014) looks to at a larger case study, the Barbican Centre -a housing complex with more than 2000 apartments, located in the City of London -in order to investigate how occupant feedback surveys can inform a culturally significant and unique site. In "Utilising resident feedback to inform energy saving interventions at the Barbican", Behar argues that methodologies which allow the voice of occupants to speak are particularly useful in the context of this well-known Grade II example of British post-war Brutalist architecture.…”

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“…They present different specific cases of local action to reduce carbon emission through changes in urban energy systems. They range from a comparative analysis of four non-UK cases: promoting energy efficiency in Berlin; installing PVs at schools in New Jersey; using seawater for district heating in the Hague and low-carbon commercial office development in Stockholm (Chmutina et al 2014); through understanding drivers and barriers to urban energy initiatives in the UK (Sherriff 2014); to research on individual household energy practices in the UK (Higginson et al 2014) and resident feedback and energy saving interventions at a major housing estate in London (Behar 2014). These four papers are set into the wider context by a viewpoint that undertakes a 20-year review of key trends in policy for low-energy built environments in the UK (Rydin and Turcu 2014).…”

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Energy in the locality: a case for local understanding and action

Turcu¹,

Rydin²,

Pilkey³

2014

Local Environment

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EDITORIAL Energy in the locality: a case for local understanding and action Context for considering energy in the locality We live in an urbanising world occurring on the background of rapid population growth. Both these phenomena contribute to an ever-expanding and changing built environment, which draws heavily on the existing energy and resources. Today's buildings use about 40% of the world's energy and are responsible for nearly the same amount of carbon emissions -more than that in the transportation or industrial sectors (WBCSD 2009). Buildings are also highly dependent on finite resources that will be depleted in the near future with most of their energy coming from fossil fuels, such as oil, coal and gas -over 80% of world's energy comes from fossil fuels and a fair share of this goes into our buildings (EIA 2012). Furthermore, energy is used throughout the life cycle of buildings. First, the construction materials that are used embody energy, since energy is needed for the extraction, manufacture and transport of raw materials. The modern building and construction sector is very steel, cement and glass intensive. All of these materials embody a considerable amount of energy -for example, steel can have 24 times the embodied energy of wood, while aluminium 124 times more (UN Habitat 2012). Second, energy is used in the construction phase of the project, as all the drilling machines, pumps, tractors, etc. need energy for their operation. Third, energy is needed for the use and maintenance of the building (in lighting, air conditioning and cleaning); in fact, the single largest use of energy in buildings has been attributed to heating and cooling -in 2012, 67% of the domestic energy consumption in the EU was for heating purposes alone (OECD 2013). Finally, energy is needed for demolishing the building and removing the debris.All these global trends show how "energy hungry" our built environment is and, as a result, less resilient to problems related to energy security and energy price increases. This has a significant impact on the way we live our lives given the existence of three energy challenges: carbon mitigation (energy must be safe for the environment), energy security (energy should be secure for nation-states) and combating fuel poverty (energy should be affordable for all). This so-called energy trilema (WEC and Wyman 2012) has become today's dominant energy paradigm. It involves complex intertwined links between public and private actors; governments and regulators; economic, political, social and technological factors; national and local resources; combined with wider environmental concerns and patterns of individual behaviours. "No country is an energy island" (HoL 2013), however, in the absence of a universally accepted framework for energy policy, the ways these links are understood and pursued have important implications for energy in the "locality".First, it has become evident that carbon emissions derived from human activity and, in particular, energy consumption challenges the environmen...

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Energy in the locality: a case for local understanding and action

Turcu¹,

Rydin²,

Pilkey³

2014

Local Environment

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“…One step forward was achieved in the study of residents' behaviours and perceptions in the case of the Barbican Centre in London -a Grade II-listed residential and cultural complex built during the 1960s and a typical example of Brutalist architecture. 13 A residents' survey was conducted to characterise levels of occupant comfort and satisfaction, identify any problems experienced by the residents, and explore possibilities to improve the energy performance of the estate without compromising its status as an iconic example of post-war architecture and planning. This study showed that overall levels of satisfaction and comfort were high but residents were dissatisfied with the limited heating control.…”

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