Energy efficiency, resilience to future climates and long-term sustainability: the role of the built environment.
Just under half of all energy consumption in the UK today takes place indoors, and over a quarter within our homes. The challenges associated with energy security, climate change and sustainable consumption will be overcome or lost in our existing buildings. A background analysis, and the scale of the engineering challenge for the next three to four decades, is described in this paper.
Kelly
M J
MJ
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, , 9 J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK. mjk1@cam.ac.uk