News and Events
New studentship opportunities at Loughborough (LU)
The Centre is currently looking to recruit for up to 6 studentships for placement at LU from top graduates in science, engineering and related disciplines who are committed to the area of energy demand research. The Centre offers both UK/EU fees and an enhanced stipend to eligible students and is led by world-leading academics assisted by industry partners and stakeholders providing a route into future employment in the rapidly expanding field of energy demand management.
Ninth EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training funded
A new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Energy Demand Reduction & the Built Environment – a collaboration between the UCL Energy Institute and Loughborough University (LU) – has been funded by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC).
The centre will receive £5.8 million over the next eight years to support 40 students through a four-year doctorate programme in energy-demand reduction in buildings. A further 40 students will be supported from the partner universities’ own funds. The strategic aim is to educate the next generation of highly skilled and broadly based energy researchers to lead and support the complex, multidisciplinary task of driving down energy demand and CO2 emissions from the UK building stock. The new CDT will be the premier centre for such leadership training in the UK.
New research suggests energy efficiency in the home may not save energy
New research suggests that Government plans to achieve an 80% reduction in the CO2 emissions from existing UK homes by 2050 may be unrealistic.
Writing in a special issue of the Building Research and Information journal, researchers from the Carbon Reduction in Buildings (CaRB) Consortium, in which Loughborough University and University College London played a major role, present detailed new evidence on how people use energy in buildings.
The researchers overturn beliefs surrounding technical improvements in the home by suggesting that householders use energy efficiency initiatives to make their homes more comfortable rather than to save energy. The Consortium have found that energy efficiency measures seem to encourage householders to turn up the heat, leave the heating on for longer and heat more rooms.
