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    How Much Energy Does Your Building Use?

    By Liz Reason and Kerry Mashford

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    Why do award-winning ‘green’ buildings so often have higher energy bills than ordinary buildings? Why do expensive refurbishments deliver outcomes that are far from the promises of improved sustainability? Why does your building have high running costs and still the occupants complain about being too cold or too hot and are otherwise dissatisfied? The failure of many countries to produce buildings that are comfortable with excellent energy performance is a scandal. Achieving low energy buildings does not involve learning rocket science: just some basic building physics, a clear language for talking meaningfully about energy-efficient outcomes with all those in the buildings cycle, and an outlook that casts a new low energy perspective on old problems. This book provides that common language. It outlines a path towards understanding what makes for a good quality low energy building, the stakeholders that need to be engaged, and encourages new ways of thinking about how to reduce energy use and costs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDoSustainability
    Release dateMay 10, 2014
    ISBN9781910174043
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    Liz Reason

    LIZ REASON is Managing Director of the Green Gauge Trust, a not-for-profit which aims to mainstream the knowledge and skills for low energy low carbon buildings. She has been a Director of the National Energy Foundation since 2006 and a trustee of the charity, SuperHomes. In April 2012, she was appointed to the Knowledge & Skills Working Group of the BIS Green Construction Board. Liz was on the Development Panel of Octavia Housing from 2010 to 2013, and from 2004 to 2009 she was director of the AECB’s CarbonLite. She helped to set up what is now the Passivhaus Trust. She has been both adviser and assessor for a number of Technology Strategy Board buildings competitions. In 2008–2009, she was a member of the government’s Eco-towns Challenge Panel. KERRY MASHFORD PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FRSA has been Chief Executive of the National Energy Foundation since December 2012. Her previous roles include Lead Technologist in low impact buildings at the Technology Strategy Board, Technical Director of the Ecological Sequestration Trust, Director of Development for the Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse, Director of Sustainable Development at Benoy Architects and Masterplanners, and Head of Sustainable Manufacturing & Construction for ARUP. Kerry also co-founded Interfacing Ltd., an engineering design and consultancy company focusing on sustainable projects, materials, technologies and systems. Kerry has an MSc in interdisciplinary design of the built environment (IDBE) from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in integrated design of complex, multi-domain systems from Brunel University. A Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Kerry is an advisor to several academic institutions, a member of IMechE Council, a lead assessor for the Manufacturing Excellence Awards and judge of various energy and buildings related awards.

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