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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
Anticipating Chronic Climate Risks
How can local authorities better anticipate and reduce chronic climate risks in the built environment? With 20 years' experience working in local authorities tackling climate change, Joe Baker considers the challenges facing local authorities to identify and manage climate risks, and asks: How do we get the leadership, skills, capacity and meaningful action needed?
Remote Sensing for Urban Development Policies
At the 2026 Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit Magnus Andersson, David Muthui & Reza Roodaki (Malmö University) argued that remote sensing should be a core evidence infrastructure for sustainable urban governance. Satellite derived and geospatial analysis can observe and monitor urban expansion, densification, land consumption, building form and material demand across jurisdictions and over time. A shift from two-dimensional to three-dimensional sensing and analysis provides new data to inform policies for housing, land-use efficiency, disaster exposure, public space, resource efficiency and resilient construction.