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Why don’t residential Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) predictions agree with metered energy consumption and what impacts could this have on the design of the future energy system? Applications are now open for a studentship at UCL in collaboration ETH Zurich and the Lab for Energy Systems Analysis at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. Supervisors: Professor Tadj Oreszczyn and Dr Jessica Few of UCL Energy …

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Applications are now open for a studentship at UCL in collaboration with the V&A Museum to explore technical solutions for how museums can decarbonise and become more energy resilient in the face of climate change. Supervisors: Dr Scott Orr of UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, Dr Sung-Min Hong of UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, Melissa Painter of V&A Museum …

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UCL’s Energy Institute is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in: ‘Transforming our energy system: Energy demand flexibility from smart meter data’ Do you want to make a difference tackling climate change and energy costs? Interested in how electric vehicles and heat pumps affect the energy system and its flexibility? Apply for this exciting PhD opportunity …

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UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in: ‘Improving building performance through better feedback: understanding the effectiveness of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE)’ Effective feedback is vital for any product to work as intended and meet the needs of the user. Unfortunately, evidence shows many buildings do not perform as …

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UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in: ‘Data-driven techniques for healthy, energy resilient housing’ The UK has an abundance of data on housing, energy use, and health. Cutting edge data science and housing stock models will be used to explore the complex inter-relationships between home energy efficiency, fuel …

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UCL’s Energy Institute is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in: ‘Developing an open access tool to generate synthetic occupant profiles from smart meter data for building stock modelling‘ This project aims to develop an open access tool to generate synthetic populations of building occupant profiles using smart meter data. The tool will enable the generation …

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UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, in partnership with The NHS, Catapult Energy Systems and The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), are seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in ‘Exploring Pathways for Decarbonising and Improving Resilience of NHS Healthcare Facilities in England’ This project will research energy performance of existing healthcare facilities and explore challenges and opportunities …

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UCL’s Energy Institute is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship on topic in ‘Well performing heat pumps for the mass market’ Heat pumps are a key decarbonisation technology for domestic buildings. Recent evidence has shown that domestic heat pumps perform worse than expected on average and that there a huge spread in performance. This research will …

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UCL’s Energy Institute in partnership with Worcester Bosch are seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship on topic in ‘An exploration of the system implications of the large scale deployment of hybrid heat pumps in UK housing’ This project seeks to develop a strategic understanding of drivers of cost and performance of hybrid heat pumps, and of their impacts …

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