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David Glew
Professor David Glew is the Head of Energy Efficiency and Policy in the Leeds Sustainability Institute, based at Leeds Beckett University, where he undertakes research into the sustainability of the built environment.
He has special interest in the embodied and operational energy use of buildings, improving building performance evaluation tools and models and investigating how behaviour change can address issues including indoor air quality, thermal comfort, the performance gap and achieving zero carbon living.
His recent research projects have evaluated the energy performance and risks associated with domestic retrofits and investigated the robustness of building energy models and thermal simulations.
Latest Commentaries
Who is Responsible for Climate Change?
Ian Cooper (Eclipse Research) explores the questions of responsibility raised in the recent Buildings & Cities special issue ‘Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making’. Focusing here on carbon emissions and mitigation, global responses will require grounding in what can work locally. New responsibilities arise for the wide range of built environment decision-makers: clients, professionals and their institutions, central and local governments, product suppliers, financiers, insurers, etc. A framework is needed to manage the complexity of responsibilities especially for variety of actors, the time frames and spatial scales.
Professional Ethics in a Climate Crisis
The climate crisis has progressed into a dangerous phase with tragic consequences often counted in numbers of excess deaths, but also by powerful economic impacts of rising food prices, the increased costs of insurance and lending, costly damage to the built environment. Celia Davies, Director of Impact at the UK’s Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Hugh Ellis, Director of Policy at TCPA, consider the responsibilities of professionals in shaping a built environment which is fit not just for today's climate risks but for the dramatic increase in severe and unpredictable weather which is now locked into our climate systems.