Usable Buildings: Energy efficiency and performance

Energy efficiency and performance ¹⁰³

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Claverton Energy Research Group, email release, July 20, 2022. Original news source .
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Usable Buildings Trust, May 2016 .
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Centre for Energy Research Into Energy Demand Solutions, UCL Energy Institute, October 2021. This version is a pdf vesrion of the original Powerpoint presentation. .
BLACKMAN, David, Ten Challenging Years
CIBSE Journal, Feb 2019, 21-22. Interview with Quinten Babcock and Blll Bordass .
BORDASS W,, FORD F. and SCHIANO R., Specification of Automatic Vent Opening Devices for Natural Ventilation
Partners in Innovation (PII), 2000 .
BORDASS W., Energy Performance
Chapter 2, pages 19-23 of Sustainable Architecture, editor, D Turrent, London: RIBA Publications (October 2007) .
BORDASS W., Flying Blind
The Association for the Conservation of Energy and the Oxfordshire Energy Advice Centre, October 2001 .
BORDASS W., It's All in the Labelling
Essential FM Report 55, Environmental Management, 2006 .
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Discussion Paper, The Usable Buildings Trust, London, 2005, 14 pp .
BORDASS W., Principles of Carbon Counting for Buildings in Use
Discussion Paper, The Usable Buildings Trust, London, 2006. .
BORDASS W., Cost and value: Fact and fiction
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BORDASS W., The Balance Between Central and Local Control Systems
Environmental Quality 90 Conference, British Gas HQ, Solihull, 4-5 October 1990 .
BORDASS W., Energy Performance in Use and Government Policy
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Buildings and Cities, 1(1), 260–276, July 2020. Open access with downloadable PDF and XML versions also available. .
BORDASS W., Posford House, Peterborough
Best Practice Programme, General Information Leaflet, 12, July 1993 .
BORDASS W., Magnus House, Bridgewater
Best Practice Programme, General Information Leaflet, 10, July 1993 .
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Best Practice Programme, General Information Report, 31, Sep 1995 .
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BORDASS W., Hereford and Worcester County Hall
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BORDASS W., Mixed Mode Ventilation and Cooling Systems in Buildings
William Bordass Associates, London, June 1990 .
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Building Performance Congress, Frankfurt, April 19-24, 2004 .
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BORDASS W., and COHEN R., Making DECs Fly
Solar Progress, vol 26, no 2 June 2005 .
BORDASS W., BROMLEY A. and LEAMAN A., Comfort, Control and Energy Efficiency in Offices
BRE Information paper, February 1995 .
BORDASS W., BURMAN E., COHEN R., FIELD J., HONG S-M, RUYSSEVELT P. and SPEVACK R., Taylored Energy Benchmarks for Offices and Schools
CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 3-4 April 2014 .
BORDASS W., COHEN R. and BANNISTER P., Design for Performance. UK Commitment Agreements: Making measured energy in-use the objective for new office buildings.
UK Feasibility Review Report, May 2016 .
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Building, Research and Information, 2001,114-128 .
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Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme, General Information Report GIA 15, March 1994 .
BORDASS, Bill, How Much Heat Do We Really Need?
PowerEx Live, Park Plaza Hotel, London, 6 October 2021 .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit Our Buildings, or Our Brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, 1 April 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
BORDASS, Bill, Beyond Space Heating and Cooling: Changing Mindsets in a Climate and Environmental Emergency
Climate at the Extremes Conference, Edinburgh, 6 September 2002 .
BORDASS, Bill, Insights from Building Performance Evaluation Studies
Usable Buildings, presentation to Oxford Brookes University, 24 Oct 2024. Also covers ground in presentations in 2020, 2022 and 2023. .
BORDASS, Bill, Beyond Space Heating and Cooling: changing mindsets in a climatic and environmental emergency
Usable Buildings for PowerEx Live Conference, London, 8 December, 2022. Pdf .
BORDASS, Bill, Energy Performance in Use and Government Policy
Chapter 2 of Prasad S., Retrofit for Purpose, RIBA Publishing, 2014 .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit: A Sense Of Proportion
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) Annual Conference 2023, Progressing Retrofit – designing for human factors: comfort, health & affordability, Glasgow 15-16 September 2023 .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit our buildings, or our brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency (PDF)
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, St Peter’s, Vauxhall, London April 1, 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
BORDASS, Bill, Energy Retrofits and Traditional Buildings: Let's keep things in proportion
UCL Centre for Sustainable Heritage, 2 Feb 2024 .
BORDASS, Bill, Can we be healthier and save energy without reconstructing our buildings?
PowerEx Live, London, 12 Dec 2024 .
BORDASS, Bill, Coming to Terms with Your Church Heating
Doncaster Minster, 19 February 2025 .
BORDASS, Bill , Retrofit: a sense of proportion
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) Conference, Progressing Retrofit – designing for human factors: comfort, health & affordability, Glasgow 15-16 September 2023 Slides Video .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance Evaluation and POE: Past, Present and Future
Heriot-Watt University, 8 February 2023 .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Post-Occupancy Evaluation: from post-mortem to life support
Presentation to Allies + Morrison, London, 14 November, 2023. .
BORDASS, Bill and PENDER, Robyn, Retrofit: Towards a proportionate people-first, approach
National Retrofit Conference, Futurebuild, Excel, London, 5 March 2025 .
BORDASS, Bill with LEAMAN, Adrian, Buildings that Work
William Bordass Associates, 2000. Presentation to Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) July 2000. Please note: this archived presentation was originally given using overhead projector foils. This version does not include the slides and diagrams which were included in the original. .
BORDASS, W., Half a century of sleepwalking towards climate change
Architects' Journal, April 15, 2019. Safari Reader copy from AJ online. This version with comments up to 4 May 2019 AJ Original version .
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BUNN R. and LEAMAN A., Primary School Carbon Footprinting
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Journal of Sustainable Design and Applied Research, vol 5,1, 2017 .
BUNN, Roderic, Longitudinal occupant satisfaction studies and their potential for managing the comfort carrying-capacity of buildings
Usable Buildings, April 2022, 30pp, High resolution copy 20.3 Mb. Creative Commons open access .
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Carbon Trust, Low Carbon Building Performance Programme
Archived from 2011. .
COHEN R. and BORDASS W., Property Needs Sustainability
Building Services Journal, September 2003, pps 6-8 .
COHEN R., THERBURG I., BORDASS W. and FIELD J., Implementation of EPBD (Energy Performance Building Directive) Article 7.3 in Germany and the UK: Comparison of Methodologies and Procedures
Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings (IEECB) conference (IEECB '08), 10-11 April, 2008, Frankfurt .
COHEN, R., BANNISTER P. and BORDASS W., Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in reality, not just theory
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COLLEY, Jeff, Study: extreme overheating not reflected in building simulations.
Passive House +, Issue 26, October 2018. .
CURTIS, Roger, Appropriate retrofit of traditional and listed buildings
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) 2023 Conference .
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Energy Demand Flexibility online portal CREDS, UCL .
Energy Transitions Commission, Making Mission Possible: delivering a net-zero economy
Energy Transitions Commission, September 2020, v1. Energy Transitions Commission website .
ENTWISTLE M, WILLIS S., FORDHAM M. and BORDASS W, Avoiding or Minimising the Use of Air-conditioning
BRE Environment Division, 1995. Please note. It should be correctly attributed to the BRE Environment Division with Mike Entwistle as lead author. .
FISK D, Sustainable Development and Building Design
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FOO, G., BANNISTER P. and COHEN R, Design for Performance: Lessons from the NABERS UK Independent Design Review Process
CIBSE Technical Symposium, UK April 2022 .
FOO, Grace, Design for Performance: Lessons from the Nabers Independent Design Review (IDR) UK
CIBSE Technical Symposium, UK April 2022 .
GETHING, Bill and BORDASS, Bill, Rapid Assessment Checklist for Sustainable Buildings
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GOULDEN M. and SPENCE A., Caught in the middle: The role of the Facilities Manager in organisational energy use
Energy Policy, pp 280-288, Oct 2015. Creative Commons open source article .
HALLIDAY S., FOSTER S. and HUTCHINSON K., Resource Efficient Housing for 2020
Gaia Group Ltd for Zero Waste Scotland, October, 2020 .
HALLIDAY, Sandy, An Ineffective Virus Kills Its Host
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HEALEY K.H., Unforgivable: exploring thermal comfort, adaptation and forgiveness in a problem green office building
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HUMPHREYS M.A., Creating Adaptive Comfort
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2015 .
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LEAMAN A., Window Design for Natural Ventilation
Notes for BRE seminar, 17 May, 1993. Originally prepared as background for the evaluation of the Lansdown Window System (1992) .
LEAMAN A., Energy Efficiency and Human Performance: a guide for facilities and personnel managers
Best Practice Programme, General Information Leaflet, Draft, Unpublished, March 1993 .
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Association for the Conservation of Energy, October 2001 .
Paul Bannister, at the National Sustainability in Business Conference, Brisbane 2017.
summarises his talk on net zero buildings and how we can get to them .
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Architectural Science Association Conference 2016 .
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National Retrofit Conference, Futurebuild, Excel, London, 5 March 2025 .
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