Projects

Current Projects

Green Deal Go Early Monitoring

The Green Deal Go Early project is undertaken in partnership with Greater Manchester and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. This study is concerned with the fabric performance, environmental measurement, energy use and user experience of retrofitted properties in Greater Manchester as part of a wider improvement programme.

SEEDS Framework 7

SEEDS focuses on both the residential and commercial sectors. The commercial (or tertiary) sector includes a wide spectrum of building type and surrounding open spaces (shopping, education, offices, sanitary, leisure, sport, motorways, etc). The SEEDS project will be of direct applicability on the residential and commercial sectors (saving energy potential around 30%). The results of the project will be validated in the commercial sector (offices building with its parking area in Spain) and part of a university campus in Norway (University of Stavanger). Nevertheless, SEEDS developments will also be of applicability into the residential sector.

http://seeds-fp7.cemosa.es/index2.php

Salford Energy Hub

The Salford Energy Hub project is a large-scale ERDF project looking at supporting businesses in the in the environmental sector. This includes supporting product testing in facilities such as the Energy House and our UKAS accredited thermal labs

Bolton@Home

People, Energy and Buildings EPSRC

Recent Projects

Save Energy

Behaviour change investigation into ways in which energy can be saved in public buildings. The research involved engageing staff and the catering supplier at Manchester Art Gallery in a series of influencing measures to motivate behaviours that reduced the consumption  of  energy in the building. 2010-2011

Resilient Homes/Timperley Green Homes

A research programme into behaviour change for the Environment Agency (later with Trafford Borough Council) that investigated ways in which communities can be motivated to invest in property-level protection in response to climate change by the acceptance of non-cash rewards. The study included a national attitude survey, engagement with tenants and landlords, a social psychology review and a trial reward scheme for 50 households which led to a 50% take-up in energy and flood surveys, and a 20% acceptance of rewards. 2008 – 2011 

Discipline Hop EPSRC

ApRemodel (Tekes in Partnership with VTT)

The University of Salford conducted a case study of non-technical innovation in large-scale retrofit projects as part of a wider study undertaken in Finland. The study consisted of 20 case studies and 6 detailed case studies that considered issues such as resident engagement, procurement and funding mechanisms to support the effective deployment of retrofit in the UK. This study was conducted in partnership with Finnish research organisation VTT and funded by Tekes, the Finnish research council.

Fusion21 Knowledge Transfer Partnership (Technical and Commercial)

This project, undertaken with procurement organisation Fusion21, was concerned with the development of a sustainable retrofit options appraisal tool, which addressed the technical options, delivery risk and financial arrangements for large-scale retrofit projects.

Fusion21 Knowledge Transfer Partnership (People and Communities)

This project, undertaken with procurement organisation Fusion21, was concerned with the development of a resident engagement toolkit to identify and manage resident related risk through the whole life of a large-scale retrofit project. This included issues such as identifying in-use risks of specific technologies, to the application and evaluation of a wide variety of interventions to deliver a resident-centred retrofit delivery process.

DEHEMS Framework 7