Activities

Consultancy

The network membership can offer expertise under the broad headings listed below.

  • Design, occupants and conventions
  • Measurement and modelling
  • Standards and legislation

If you need advice on whom to contact for consultancy regarding your particular area of interest, please contact the Network Administrator, Fergus Nicol (f.nicol@londonmet.ac.uk).

The following keywords indicate the broad range of interests represented by the membership:

  • Adaptation, Adaptive design, Assessment,
  • Behaviour, Bioclimatology, Building climatology, Building design, Building management systems, Building occupant behaviour, Building performance, Building physics, Building services, Building simulation, Building in use consultancy, Built environment,
  • Capital projects, Carbon emissions, Climate change, Clothing, Comfort, Comfort prediction, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Concentration, Construction management, Construction sustainability, Consumption, Controls, Convention,
  • Data analysis, Daylight, Design, Domestic, Domestic sustainable energy,
  • Embodied energy, Energy, Energy auditing, Energy efficiency, Energy management, Energy monitoring and targeting, Energy systems and environment, Environment, Environmental experience, Everyday life,
  • Field measurement, Fuel poverty,
  • GIS
  • Health, Houses, Household size, Housing conditions, Housing standards, Human heat transfer, Human thermoregulation, Hybrid and natural ventilation,
  • Innovation, Integrated design, Integrated solar systems,
  • Laboratory studies, Learning, Legislation, Lighting, Low energy architecture,
  • Material, Microclimate, Modelling, Monitoring, Monitored temperatures,
  • New build, New building technologies, Numerical modelling, Natural ventilation,
  • Occupant, Occupant feedback, Occupant expectation and perception, Occupant interaction, Occupational safety and health, Occupier surveys, Optimisation, Outdoor thermal comfort,
  • Passive climate control, Passive strategies, Perception of thermal comfort, Performance of buildings, Personal carbon footprints, Personal space, Physiology, Policy development and evaluation, Post occupancy evaluation, Productivity, Protocols,
  • Refurbishment, Retrofit, Room air movement,
  • Seasonal mortality, Senses, Simulation, Social change, Social housing, Social norms, Socio-technical, Solar energy, Standards, Subjective response, Summer, Supply chain, Surveyors, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Sustainable energy,
  • Technology, Thermal comfort, Thermal comfort & human environmental interaction, Thermal environment, Thermal insulation, Thermal simulation of cars and buildings, Thermophysiology, Transition spaces,
  • Urban design, Urban form, User interaction,
  • Ventilation, Visual comfort,
  • Weather, Weather/climate data