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Virginia Gori
Dr Virginia Gori is a Lecturer in Buildings and Energy at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London. Her research focusses on using data-driven approaches to understand the operational performance of buildings, to provide evidence-based insights for better design and decision-making in the building industry and policy landscape. Her expertise lies at the interface of building physics, in-situ monitoring and energy modelling and analytics, often with a focus on retrofit.
Virginia is Technical Committee member for the European Committee for Standardisation and has been expert member in the International Energy Agency (IEA) Annex 71, Annex 81 and Task 59/Annex 76 projects.
Latest Commentaries
Building Performance Evaluation in Education – Why Not?
Building performance evaluation (BPE) is a process to understand how buildings perform in use and how inhabitants interact with their buildings. BPE can harness these insights to improve building design, operation and use. Paradoxically, BPE is rarely part of the curriculum for education of designers, buildings and managers. Fionn Stevenson (independent scholar) considers why BPE / post-occupancy evaluation is not being taught to architecture students in the UK and how to mainstream BPE in education and practice.
Freedom from Stress is Symptomatic of Death
Marcel Schweiker (RWTH Aachen University) and Richard de Dear (University of Sydney) discuss the neutrality fallacy and resilience. They explain why indoor environments do not need to be stress free in order to support their occupants’ resilience.