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Reducing the energy use and the carbon footprint of tropical housing |
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| Title | Reducing the energy use and the carbon footprint of tropical housing |
| Creator | 1. Terry Thomas 2. Heather Cruickshank |
| Publisher | Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment |
| Publication Year | 2557 |
| Keyword | energy, housing, embodied, tropical, walling |
| Abstract | Following some decades of effort to reduce the energy embodied in, or consumed in, temperate housing, focus is now shifting to a similar effort for tropical housing. Energy reduction is a well-established strategy for reducing GHG emissions. A research consortium 'ELITH' of six-partners (of whom two are East Asian) has been funded by the UK government to investigate how the energy use, carbon footprint and cost of 'low-income' tropical housing might best be reduced. The research combines engineering, building science, architecture, town planning and physical modelling. Examples of programme research topics are (i) examination of the relationship between 'active' and 'passive' cooling under humid tropical conditions and (ii) how to reduce the energy embodied in walling. This paper focusses on the latter. |
| ISBN | 978-616-92228-1-1 |
