Retrofit 2012 Academic Conference November 29, 2011

Retrofit 2012 will look to accept papers from disciplines including the sciences, economics, built environment, business and management, information technology and computing, psychology and sociology.

How much? Visit the Retrofit 2012 website

The reduction of energy demand from the existing stock of buildings has been identified as a core part of UK and EU energy policy. As a high-level research, economic and policy question it brings together many disciplines in addressing a pressing real world problem.

Last year the University of Salford launched Joule Terrace, the Victorian House in a climate controlled environmental chamber. This event, which included a Ministerial visit by Greg Barker, attracted a wide audience of industry and government attendees. This year we are expanding this event to include an opportunity for researchers to report on the current state of the art across the range of disciplines, from both UK, EU and international institutions.

Too often excellent work that would impact upon an integrated understanding of successful retrofit programmes are lost in translation, history and within disciplines. It is clear that time is running out in the battle against high energy practices and lifestyles for such valuable knowledge to be wasted.

The goal of Retrofit 2012 is to bring together a wide range of researchers from a number of disciplines to take a multi-perspective approach in identifying how this problem may be best addressed and the key current and emerging research questions and findings.

Retrofit 2012 will look to accept papers from disciplines including the sciences, economics, built environment, business and management, information technology and computing, psychology, and sociology. The papers must address the issues of the sustainable retrofit of the built environment and related issues of energy supply and demand.

Official Website: http://www.salford.ac.uk/home-page/events/events/periodicals-across-europe2