Ian Hamilton
Bio
Dr Ian Hamilton is an Associate Professor at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London, UK.
Ian’s research is focused on the nexus between energy supply-demand in buildings, indoor and urban environmental conditions, and health and climate change. Ian is the Principle Investigator for the IEA’s 'Annex 70 - Building Energy Epidemiology' on energy and building stock data and modelling drawing together researchers from 25 institutions from across 12 countries. Ian is a Co-investigator on the UK’s ‘Centre on Research for Energy Demand Solutions’, the UK-China Centre for Total Building Performance and the UK’s Health Protection Research Unit on ‘Healthy and Sustainable Cities under Climate Change’.
Title
Energy Epidemiology: an introduction and overview of IEA Annex 70
Introduction
Ian is an Associate Professor in Energy Epidemiology at UCL Energy Institute, University College London. UCL Energy Institute is the leading energy research centre in the UK and is focused on a undertaking research to support a globally sustainable energy system. With colleagues at UCL, Ian’s research established the concepts of energy epidemiology and has led its application to studying energy demand in the building sector in the UK.
Abstract
Energy epidemiology is the study of energy demand within the building stock. It uses a population analysis method based on concepts established by health epidemiology to understand trends and patterns of energy demand and its drivers across the building stock. The presentation will introduce building energy epidemiology and the Annex 70, a global research network focused on establishing the information basis to support building stock analysis and modelling through the IEA Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Technology Collaboration Partnership (TCP).
Jelle Laverge
Bio
Jelle Laverge (1984) is an assistant professor at Ghent University. He received his engineering masters from Ghent University in 2007. From 2005 to 2007 he was a part-time employee of Bureau Bouwtechniek in Antwerp. Between 2007 and 2013 he was a full time researcher and PhD-candidate at the building physics, construction and building services research group of the department of architecture and urban planning at Ghent University. In 2011 he received a master’s degree in Law from the same university. He was a part-time building physics lecturer at KaHo Sint-Lieven Gent for the 2011 spring semester. With the support of the FWO (grant V430911N), he was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin during the summer of 2011. With a dissertation entitled ‘Design strategies for residential ventilation systems’, he obtained a PhD in 2013. He is a member of ISIAQ, SRS and ASHRAE.
Michael Williamson
Bio
Michael Williamson is a Section Chief of the Energy Division in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), since February 2018. Prior to this, he served as the acting Director of UNESCAP’s Subregional Office for South and South West Asia, coordinating UNESCAP’s work in 10 countries of South and South West Asia. From 2015 to 2017 he was Chief of Staff and Senior Adviser to the Executive Secretary of UNESCAP. He began his UNESCAP career in India in 2013 as the Head of the Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology, a regional institution of UNESCAP.
Michael’s experience over the last 20 years covers the private sector, government and international organisations with a focus on sustainable development, energy, technology and climate change.
Before joining the UN, Michael worked for Australian governments at state and federal level in climate change, sustainability and energy policy. He joined for Australia’s national climate change agency in 2000 to manage programs commercializing advanced renewable energy technologies. In this role he also was the policy manager of a venture capital fund investing in renewable energy startups. In between his government roles he undertook technical and humanitarian assignments with the International Committee of the Red Cross, restoring essential services to communities during the civil war in Nepal from 2004 to 2007. During the 1990’s, Mr. Williamson gained hands on experience developing energy access projects for remote communities in Nepal.
He holds a Master of Science in Renewable Energy Technology from Loughborough University, UK and an honours degree in Civil Engineering from Monash University, Australia. He has also completed a post graduate diploma in management from the Australian Institute of Management and is a graduate of the UN leadership course at the United Nations Staff College.
Title
Asia-Pacific’s Urbanisation and how the region’s buildings will shape global sustainability
Introduction
Michael Williamson works with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ESCAP is the regional development arm of the United Nations for the Asia-Pacific region. Made up of 53 member States and 9 associate Members, covering Turkey in the west to Kiribati in the east, and from the Russian Federation in the north to New Zealand in the south, the region is home to 4.1 billion people, or two thirds of the world’s population. ESCAP works to overcome some of the region’s greatest challenges by providing results oriented projects, technical assistance and capacity building to member States in across the Sustainable Development Goals.
Recognizing the importance of sustainable, inclusive and livable cities for the region’s development, the ESCAP supports member States by facilitating regional dialogue and promoting sustainable and inclusive urban development.
Abstract
The world is heading towards a more urbanised future, with Asia-Pacific as the key driver of the global trend. The inflection point of more people of the region living in urban than rural areas was passed in 2018. By 2040 more than 3 billion people in the region will be living in cities. While other regions have a higher overall rate of urbanisation, Asia-Pacific will dominate in terms of total urban population and its preponderance of megacities. Asia-Pacific’s current 17 megacities will increase to 22 megacities by 2030.
Cities consume about 65% of global energy and generate 70% of GHG emissions with buildings representing about half of this. At the same time cities represent opportunities for energy transformation as they create new building stock, transport infrastructure and services. More efficient buildings, embedded renewable energy generation, district energy networks, waste to energy schemes and efficient transportation networks offer the potential for cleaner energy to play a greater role, delivering local and global benefits.
While sustainable urban development is reflected it the SDGs as a stand-alone goal – SDG11 – it is much more than this. Sustainable urban development is a series of organising principles, the proper implementation of which can drive success in other SDGs. UNIDO, has noted that 10 other SDGs are linked to Goal 11 on sustainable urban development. For example, the impact of cities and from this the way they are planned and developed will influence those SDGs on poverty, gender, clean water, sustainable energy, decent work, infrastructure, inequalities, sustainable production and consumption and climate change.
Prof Tadj Oreszczyn
Bio
Tadj Oreszczyn FCIBSE, PhD, CEng is Professor of Energy and Environment at the UCL Energy Institute. Tadj was founding Director of the UCL Energy Institute and established the RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology (CEE) based at the UCL Energy Institute. This centre undertakes research to help the UK reduce it's energy demand in buildings and transport.
Tadj has, for 34 years, undertaken energy and building research with a particular focus around the performance gap between theory and practice and the unintended consequences (health, comfort, etc.) of building energy efficiency. His first degree was in Applied Physics followed by a PhD in Solar Energy.
Title
Energy Epidemiology: Helping plan for a low carbon urban transition.
Introduction
Energy epidemiology is an important research method to help plan a low carbon transition. Historically, we have evolved our energy use and supply system. If we are to decarbonise our energy system at the rate required to support urbanisation as well as decarbonisation we will need to transition our energy system at an unprecedented rate delivering actual rather than theoretical carbon reductions. Energy epidemiology can play an important role in understanding what if any difference there is between theoretical/laboratory and actual performance in the complex socio-technical urban system. The presentation will give examples of how energy epidemiology has helped provide the UK evidence base to improve policies and technologies. Plus, how increased data availability via the Internet of things and smart meters will make energy epidemiology and new service models become cost effective.
Martin Howley
Bio
Felicia Federico
Bio
Executive Director, California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Federico is responsible for advancing all aspects of CCSC work, including research initiative conceptualization, proposal writing, interdisciplinary project management, and strategic partnership development. Prior to joining UCLA, her experience included work in the private sector (aerospace, petroleum) as well as in consulting. Her interdisciplinary education combines expertise in engineering and environmental sciences with an understanding of the legal, policy, economic and social science elements critical to addressing complex environmental challenges. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, a Masters in Geography from UCLA, and a Doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA. Her research focus areas include: energy, water, climate change / sustainability planning, and environmental equity.
Title
UCLA Energy Atlas for Southern California
Introduction
The California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA (CCSC) was founded by Dr. Stephanie Pincetl, center director and professor-in-residence at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Our mission at the CCSC is to conduct science in the public interest and assist California communities as they make the transition to greater urban sustainability on multiple fronts. We provide insights, data, methods, models, case studies, tools and strategies to address challenges facing California communities today. Much of our work also has applicability nationally and internationally, particularly in terms of methods and tools that represent best practice for data collection, analysis, and public interface. Our team collaborates with other cutting-edge researchers, practitioners and community-based organizations on topics critical to this transition, in order to strengthen our collective missions.
Our work supports equitable and just outcomes for policy change in the areas of energy, water, urban ecosystem services and land use. Current CCSC research includes grants from the California Energy Commission, California Strategic Growth Council, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the County of Los Angeles (for the first Los Angeles County Sustainability Plan, covering a population of over 10 million people). We also partner with the UCLA Sustainable Los Angeles Grand Challenge to provide technical authorship on the Environmental Report Cards for Los Angeles County.
Abstract
The UCLA Energy Atlas (energyatlas.ucla.edu) allows the public to interact with one of the largest sets of disaggregated building energy data in the US. Tens of millions of electricity and natural gas accounts are linked to building characteristics and demographic information to create a robust database for building energy analysis. The interactive website is used by a wide variety of stakeholder groups to inform energy planning and research in Los Angeles and throughout California, and is becoming increasingly important as the State works to achieve its ambitious energy goals and local regions work to create energy sustainability. Furthermore, the Energy Atlas backend database is at the core of a wide range of research on topics including utility grid vulnerabilities, energy efficiency, renewable energy transitions, and social justice for Los Angeles County communities. While California is the 5th largest economy in the world and an international leader on climate change, the state still faces challenges to meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals. Despite impressive air quality improvements over the last 30 years, millions of residents in the greater Los Angeles region still breathe air that does not meet ozone and PM standards as envisioned by SDG 11. Furthermore, the transition to affordable, renewable energy in support of SDG 7 faces barriers, particularly in low-income communities; efforts to electrify in-home natural gas appliances will need to overcome barriers related to cost and reliability, despite the potential for significant improvements in indoor air quality. This presentation will provide an overview of the Energy Atlas version 2.0, releasing in beta in early June 2019, and will highlight its application toward research that addresses these SDGs.
Dr Pamela Fennell
Bio
Janet Reyna
Bio
Dr. Janet L. Reyna is a research engineer at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Buildings and Thermal Sciences. Before joining NREL in 2018, she was an ORISE Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office. Dr. Reyna has a Ph.D. in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering from Arizona State University, a Master’s degree from the same program, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. During her doctoral work, she received the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and spent a summer as a guest researcher at the Pontifica Católica Universidad del Perú in Lima. Dr. Reyna’s research interests include environmental impacts of urban systems, urban-scale energy modeling, climate change and energy use, building and grid interactions, and building stock dynamics. An underlying goal of her work is to provide information for policy decision-making. She has expertise in life cycle assessment, energy forecasting, building energy modeling, vehicle emissions simulation, and spatial analysis. Her work has been published in journals such as Nature Communications, Energy, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and Environmental Science & Technology.
Title
Building Stock Modeling in American Cities – Charting Pathways for Climate Policy
Introduction
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (www.nrel.gov) is a U.S. government-owned research laboratory that focuses on advancing the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies. Dr. Reyna works in the Buildings & Thermal Sciences Center, which seeks to expand the frontier of scientific knowledge to optimize energy use, generation, and storage in the built environment at multiple scales. The Center’s research significantly enhances the resiliency, efficiency, and affordability of energy systems across the United States and the world.
Presentation
Across the United States, cities are leading the way on setting aggressive climate change mitigation policies, and local governments are actively looking for ways to achieve carbon reductions. For the building sector, which consumes over 40% of American energy, stock modeling is proving an attractive tool for identifying technological pathways to emissions reductions. In this presentation, Dr. Reyna will overview the greenhouse gas policy landscape and projected demographic changes of major U.S. cities, while highlighting a case study where building stock modeling has informed decision-making. She will also discuss NREL’s openly-available ResStock model (https://resstock.nrel.gov/), and the scalability of similar approaches to a global context.
Nina Sandberg
Bio
Nina Holck Sandberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Industrial Ecology Programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She has a PhD in Industrial Ecology from NTNU in 2017. Her research is on dynamic modelling of energy use in buildings stocks of various scales. Scenario models are used to analyse potential aggregated energy and carbon emission savings on national or city level, resulting from alternative development paths regarding the energy efficiency state of new and renovated buildings as well as use of various energy sources and local renewable energy production. The scenario models are used to identify important factors in the development of the building stock, which is a large and complex system, to inform policy makers and to estimate the aggregated effects of introducing new building technology.
Title
Scenario modelling of long-term development in energy use in building stocks
Introduction
Nina Holck Sandberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). NTNU has a main profile in science and technology, a variety of programmes of professional study, and great academic breadth. IndEcol is located at NTNU’s largest campus in Trondheim, Norway. IndEcol is an interdisciplinary research group specialized in environmental sustainability analysis on a variety of fields. Within the field of buildings, the research group at IndEcol has been involved in research on building stock energy use through a range of research projects and research centres, in close collaboration with other departments at NTNU, the research foundation SINTEF as well as research institutions in other countries. Previous projects in this field include the IEE project EPISCOPE and the Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (FME ZEB). Currently, the research group is involved in the Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (FME ZEN), the research project ExPoSe and the IEA Annex 70. Within Annex 70, NTNU/SINTEF is mainly involved in subtask C: Building stock modelling and analysis.
Within these and other projects, the research group has developed dynamic building stock models of various scales, which are used to study the long-term development of building stocks at national, city or neighbourhood level. The models provide detailed understanding of the stock dynamics, including construction, demolition and renovation activities, as well as how the energy-efficiency state of the stocks develops over time as a result of these activities. Furthermore, the models are used to simulate the development in total energy demand in the systems, as well as the use of various energy carriers and local renewable energy. Finally, the greenhouse gas emissions from this energy use is estimated.
The scenario models have been applied to a range of case studies and are used to understand the important factors for the long-term development in the system and to identify the most important factors for potential future reductions in energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Recently, the models have been applied to (i) analyses of NTNU’s own future campus development in Trondheim, (ii) to provide input to Oslo municipality’s climate strategy towards 2040 and (iii) to evaluate the aggregated effect of the research outcome from the FME ZEB. These studies are hence used to inform neighbourhood building stock developers and policy makers and to understand the possible effects of large-scale introduction of zero emission building technologies. This is important to consider when planning future development of the energy system in the society, including electrification of the transport sector and the need for new renewable electricity generation.
Jared Langevin
Bio
Jared Langevin is a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he models the national impacts of building efficiency on energy use and CO2 emissions, develops decision support algorithms for energy flexible building operations, and researches human-building interactions. Based in Washington, D.C., Jared was previously a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office (BTO) where he co-created BTO’s Scout program for national building efficiency impact analysis. Jared holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from Drexel University, where his research focused on measuring and modeling the adaptive interactions between building occupants and their surrounding thermal environments, examining the links between these interactions and building energy use. Before entering into his graduate studies at Drexel, Jared received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University.
Title
Scout - Software for rapid assessment of U.S. building efficiency impacts on energy use, emissions, and costs
Abstract
Scout (scout.energy.gov) is an open-source model for estimating the short- and long-run impacts of building energy efficiency on U.S. energy use, carbon emissions, and operating costs. In this presentation, Scout’s core analysis capabilities are described, including the standard definition of efficiency measures, representation of technology stock-and-flow dynamics, and measure adoption logic. An example application of Scout in assessing the potential contributions of building efficiency towards meeting U.S. climate goals is presented. Recent extensions of Scout to time-sensitive valuations of energy efficiency are also discussed.
Contributions to IEA Annex 70
Jared is working with colleagues at LBNL and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to contribute data and models to Annex 70 Subtasks B (modeling) and C (modeling). Jared is specifically leading work in Subtask C to develop a building stock and energy classification scheme and link this scheme to a model registry; Jared is also contributing to the development of model reporting guidelines.
Xavier Dubuisson
Bio
Marion Jammet
Bio
Marion is Business Development Manager at the IGBC. Her working background is in project management, membership organisations and policy development, with previous roles in Dublin Chamber, Eurochambres and the French Embassy in Serbia. Marion holds a MA in European Affairs from Sciences-Po Strasbourg and a MSc in environmental sustainability from UCD.
Title
Measuring the full carbon footprint of buildings
Abstract
Buildings are directly responsible for 40% of energy use. Energy efficiency - through new regulations such as nZEB - has improved significantly over the last few years. But, this is only part of the story. Where we develop buildings significantly impacts our transport emissions and the efficiency of the electrical grid. How we build them impacts our industrial emissions from the production of construction materials. The presentation will explore next steps deliver truly low carbon buildings and cities.
Scott Foster
Bio
Scott Foster has been Director of UNECE's Sustainable Energy Division since 2011. With more than 35 years' experience in energy, Mr. Foster has worked extensively with governments, industry, and international organizations on energy policy, market design and regulation, and climate change strategies. Mr. Foster's particular focus recently has been assisting energy stakeholder’s address the critical challenges of sustainability, technology choice, and investment mobilization. Before founding Nomad Energy Consulting in 2004, Mr. Foster was VP of Global Regulatory Affairs with AES Corporation, Senior Director for Global Power with Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), and Senior Expert on Electricity for the International Energy Agency. Mr. Foster holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
