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Dr Faye Wade
Dr Faye Wade is a ClimateXChange Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research applies social science to understand the policy makers, public and private sector organisations, and building professionals responsible for creating a more sustainable built environment.
Faye is particularly interested in the role of research for informing policy and industry practices. Her current project is an evaluation of the organisation and delivery of the Energy Efficient Scotland programme. This is the Scottish Government's flagship scheme for retrofitting buildings across all sectors in Scotland.
Faye's other research has focussed on transformative digital technologies for changing construction practices, and the role of heating engineers and the heating industry in shaping domestic energy consumption.
Latest Commentaries
Two Key Messages for COP31
Space Heating & Cooling in NDCs 4.0: Nationally Determined Constributions (NDCs) are at the heart of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement. NDCs embody each country's efforts to reduce their emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. So it is essential to include the building stock (particularly space heating and cooling) in the next NDCs.
Realistic Retrofit: Residential buildings are major users of energy and emitters of CO2. What constitutes realistic retrofit? Affordable, practical low-carbon policies for homes are described for both the Global North and Global South.
Thomas Lützkendorf and Nick Eyre send their messages to COP31: prioritise the building stock in NDCs and implement policies for practical retrofit. Watch their videos - for links to the videos click on "More" below:
Practitioners’ Views of POE
Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is widely valued but weakly embedded in practice. Ant Marsh, Kate van Someren, Lara Clarke and Tom Randall (Arup Building Performance and Commissioning Services) explain the findings from a survey and focus groups with UK construction industry practitioners. They identified fragmented responsibility, split commercial incentives and a persistent fear of “bad news”. Making POE routine requires a shift from producing reports to a focus on improving outcomes by owning and acting on learning.