Further, recent comments from MP Mary Creagh, chair of the audit committee, said that government failed to acknowledge a number of its core conclusions in response to a report released earlier this year into the potential public health impacts of an increased number of heat waves in the UK up to 2050. She said: “The Government has…
Following the recent IEA report on the potential effects of the growing demand for cooling (see previous News post) Birmingham University have published a report entitled “A Cool World – Defining the Energy Conundrum of Cooling for All” (see https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2018/07/Global-quadrupling-cooling-appliances-14-billion-increase-energy-consumption.aspx). This report raises the prospect that the cooling sector will, on current trajectory, increase its overall…
In a recent CIBSE Journal (March 2017), it was stated that a perfect storm of technical, economic, and cultural factors is causing alarming levels of overheating in homes, according to speakers at a recent Edge debate. Professor Kevin Lomas FCIBSE, from Loughborough University, said the rise in overheating has been caused partly by the move towards airtight, insulated…