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Low Carbon Comfort Centre

Project overview

Within the net-zero transition, buildings need to completely decarbonise comfort by 2050 yet deep retrofit at scale is unlikely. LCCC aims to understand how low-carbon comfort can be delivered at scale at least cost.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Stephanie Gauthier MSc PhD FHEA

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Energy demand;
  • Built environment;
  • Behaviour change;
Connect with Stephanie

Email: S.Gauthier@soton.ac.uk

Professor Christina Vanderwel BSc, MASc, PhD

Professor
Research interests
  • Experimental Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulence Measurements and Modelling
  • Building Aerodynamics and Urban Air Pollution
Connect with Christina

Email: C.M.Vanderwel@soton.ac.uk

Professor Sebastian Stein

Professor
Research interests
  • Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Applications of AI in smart energy, transportation, electric vehicle charging and disaster re…
Connect with Sebastian

Email: ss2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Assessing housing conditions in Indonesia and its association with health and well-being
Namira Sani, Hector Altamirano, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2023
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1133
Type: conference
Assessing the energy consumption of net-zero building with the life cycle cost and energy: an empirical analysis
Jayakeerti Muralidharan, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2023
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1140
Type: conference
Calibration and validation of building simulation models for overheating risk predictions: a case study of a matched pair of test houses in the UK
Panumart Booncharoensombut, Giorgos Petrou, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2023
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1145
Type: conference
Design intervention of retrofit fixed solar shading device for care homes in Sheffield, UK
Amit Imtiaz, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2023
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1156
Type: conference
Developing the ruins of the past: cultural heritage preservation and urban regeneration of a historical site in the United Kingdom
Rasha A. Almadi, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2023
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1157
Type: conference
Evaluating indoor air quality in buildings
Yaqin Tang, Wenzhuo Li, Valentina Marincioni, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2023
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1137
Type: conference
Improving biodiversity in the built environment: A study investigating façade solutions and their impact on local biodiversity
Noemie Lang, Renata Tubelo, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2023
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1149
Type: conference