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Dr Maria Christina Georgiadou
Dr Maria Christina Georgiadou Georgiadou is Head of Surveying and Real Estate at the School of the Built Environment, London Metropolitan University, UK. Her research focuses on co-designing solutions for complex building and infrastructure projects, integrating community, industry, and government perspectives to deliver net-zero, climate-resilient interventions that generate social value.
Her work also includes translating evidence into practical outcomes for practitioners and policymakers. Christina leads curriculum design and higher education initiatives, working with professional bodies and employers to close skills gaps.
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.