Retrofitting the Built Environment

The physical upgrading of the existing domestic and industrial
building stock to improve energy performance is an essential part
of a transition to a low carbon society. Successfully retrofitting
buildings to improve energy performance is not simply a
technological challenge, it is a complex socio-technical problem
that needs to be addressed in a co-ordinated way, utilising skills
and knowledge from a range of industrial and academic
backgrounds.

Within both the academic and practitioner communities there is a
growing understanding of the scale and nature of the problem, one
which encompasses issues such as policy and regulation, people and
behaviour, supply chain and process, as well as issues of
technology. Retrofitting the Built Environment discusses the
factors that impact on the retrofit problem, providing a clear
analysis of the main issues that the academic and industrial
communities must engage with to resolve the problems of domestic
energy and retrofit. The book is divided into four broad
sections:

• Understanding the Problem

• Policy and Regulation

• Implementing and Evaluating Retrofit

• People and Communities

Academic and industrial researchers, policy makers and industry
practitioners will find each section covers a mix of policy,
technical and social science issues, presented by both academic and
industry authors, giving a wide and detailed perspective of the
issue.

The Editors

Will Swan is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Retrofit in
the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford.
He leads a number of projects in the field of sustainable retrofit,
covering a number of topics including monitoring, behaviour and
retrofit project delivery, as part of Salford's Applied
Energy and Buildings Research Group. He sits on the Greater
Manchester Buildings Group and also is Chair of the Retrofit
Innovation Group.

Philip Brown is Director and Senior Research Fellow at
the Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at the
University of Salford. He is the lead academic on end-use energy
demand within the Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group, and
sits on Greater Manchester's Low Carbon Economic Area group
for Customer Engagement.

Autorentext

Will Swan is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Retrofit in
the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford.
He leads a number of projects in the field of sustainable retrofit,
covering a number of topics including monitoring, behaviour and
retrofit project delivery, as part of Salford's Applied
Energy and Buildings Research Group. He sits on the Greater
Manchester Buildings Group and also is Chair of the Retrofit
Innovation Group.

Philip Brown is Director and Senior Research Fellow at
the Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at the
University of Salford. He is the lead academic on end-use energy
demand within the Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group, and
sits on Greater Manchester's Low Carbon Economic Area group
for Customer Engagement.

Zusammenfassung

The physical upgrading of the existing domestic and industrial building stock to improve energy performance is an essential part of a transition to a low carbon society. Successfully retrofitting buildings to improve energy performance is not simply a technological challenge, it is a complex socio-technical problem that needs to be addressed in a co-ordinated way, utilising skills and knowledge from a range of industrial and academic backgrounds.

Within both the academic and practitioner communities there is a growing understanding of the scale and nature of the problem, one which encompasses issues such as policy and regulation, people and behaviour, supply chain and process, as well as issues of technology. Retrofitting the Built Environment discusses the factors that impact on the retrofit problem, providing a clear analysis of the main issues that the academic and industrial communities must engage with to resolve the problems of domestic energy and retrofit. The book is divided into four broad sections:

• Understanding the Problem
• Policy and Regulation
• Implementing and Evaluating Retrofit
• People and Communities

Academic and industrial researchers, policy makers and industry practitioners will find each section covers a mix of policy, technical and social science issues, presented by both academic and industry authors, giving a wide and detailed perspective of the issue.

The Editors

Will Swan is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Retrofit in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford. He leads a number of projects in the field of sustainable retrofit, covering a number of topics including monitoring, behaviour and retrofit project delivery, as part of Salford's Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group. He sits on the Greater Manchester Buildings Group and also is Chair of the Retrofit Innovation Group.

Philip Brown is Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at the University of Salford. He is the lead academic on end-use energy demand within the Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group, and sits on Greater Manchester's Low Carbon Economic Area group for Customer Engagement.

Inhalt

List of contributors vii

Foreword

Kevin Anderson xv

1 Retrofitting the built environment: An introduction 1

Will Swan and Philip Brown

PART 1 Understanding the problem 5

2 Achieving 'systemic' urban retrofit: A framework for
action 7

Tim May, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin and Beth Perry

3 Openness in household energy use: The new Housing Energy Fact
File 20

Jason Palmer, Ian Cooper and Martin Hughes

4 Retrofit innovation in the UK social housing sector: A
socio-technical perspective 36

Will Swan

PART 2 Policy and regulation 53

5 A roadmap to significant reductions in energy use for existing
buildings: The long view 55

Stephen Morgan

6 Thermal retrofit and building regulations for dwellings in the
UK 67

Stephen Todd

7 Retrofitting existing dwellings: Lessons from the policy
instruments of front-runners 81

Lorraine Murphy

PART 3 Implementing and evaluating retrofit 97

8 Make no assumptions: The selection of domestic retrofit
improvements 99

Charlie Baker, Luke Smith and Will Swan

9 Life cycle assessment of refurbishment strategies for
historical buildings 113

Gianluca Ruggieri, Giovanni Dotelli, Paco Melià and Sergio
Sabbadini

10 FutureFit: Lessons for the Green Deal from a retrofit
large-scale project in UK social housing 128

Alexandra Willey

11 Energy monitoring in retrofit projects: Strategies, tools and
practices 141

Richard Fitton

PART 4 Peoples and communities 155

12 Engaging residents in multifamily building retrofits:
Reducing energy consumption and enhancing resident satisfaction
157

Patricia Gee and Lucrezia Chiappetta

13 Ensuring energy efficiency at the individual level: Getting
psychologically informed 170

Philip Brown

14 Barriers to domestic retrofit: Learning from past home
improvement experiences 184

Becky Mallaband, Victoria Haines and Val Mitchell

15 Low-energy design for non-experts: Usability in whole house
retrofit 200

Marianne Heaslip

Index 225