Principal Investigator: Rupert J. Myers 
Co-Investigator: Mohit Arora 

The project aims to identify policy gaps to achieve the UK’s climate change targets, focussing on contributions from implementing material/energy efficiency measures in the built environment. Policy interventions to advance material and  energy efficiency  are  vital in the transition to a low  carbon-built environment. Development of such (evidence-based) policy interventions for the built environment requires a system-wide mapping of effective material and energy efficiency measures, alongside existing  policy, to understand where the policy gaps are and thus where policy support needs to be strengthened, to ultimately incentivise a zero carbon future. 

The project compliments and leverages a concurrent 3 year MA’s PDRA fellowship to assess environmental impact reductions that can be realised through the substitution of material-component substitutions in multiple Balfour Beatty projects: 

Focussing on contributions from implementing material/energy efficiency measures in the built environment. 

(1) a project-based perspective for industry(i.e., material/energy efficiency measures to reduce carbon in specific building/infrastructure systems);and (2) a life cycle-based perspective for local/(inter)national governments(i.e., material/energy efficiency measures to reduce carbon in the wider built environment system).  

Notably, the CSEI funding will enable us to use results in the former context (through multiple case studies) to study the latter.

Outcomes expected mid 2021