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Understanding Opportunities and Barriers for Social Occupant Learning in Low Carbon Housing

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Smart Energy Control Systems for Sustainable Buildings

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The effectiveness of the collective learning that takes place in modern housing developments can play a major role in terms of housing performance. Building performance evaluation (BPE) currently does not address the type and quality of collective learning processes happening within a community in relation to occupants using their new homes. A Social Learning Tool is proposed to extend BPE methodology and provide a framework to help researchers better understand the nature and degree of home user collective learning and community involvement which can in turn enhance the BPE process. A first partial application of the tool to six case study dwellings within a low carbon development in Leeds allowed identification of barriers and opportunities for collective learning.

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    ‘Zero Energy’ as proposed in article 2 of EU Directive 2010/31/EU (EPBD recast) that is including energy in use but not including embodied energy or complete energy lifecycle of construction and home components.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding provided for research informing this study by the EU FP7 Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship programme through the BuPESA project, as well as the generous time given by the occupants involved in these case studies.

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  1. Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Magdalena Baborska-Narozny

  2. School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Fionn Stevenson

  3. School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Paul Chatterton

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Baborska-Narozny, M., Stevenson, F., Chatterton, P. (2017). Understanding Opportunities and Barriers for Social Occupant Learning in Low Carbon Housing. In: Littlewood, J., Spataru, C., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Energy Control Systems for Sustainable Buildings. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 67. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52076-6_3

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