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Low Carbon Comfort Centre

Project overview

Within the net-zero transition, buildings need to completely decarbonise comfort by 2050 yet deep retrofit at scale is unlikely. LCCC aims to understand how low-carbon comfort can be delivered at scale at least cost.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Stephanie Gauthier MSc PhD FHEA

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Energy demand;
  • Built environment;
  • Behaviour change;
Connect with Stephanie

Email: S.Gauthier@soton.ac.uk

Professor Christina Vanderwel BSc, MASc, PhD

Professor
Research interests
  • Experimental Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulence Measurements and Modelling
  • Building Aerodynamics and Urban Air Pollution
Connect with Christina

Email: C.M.Vanderwel@soton.ac.uk

Professor Sebastian Stein

Professor
Research interests
  • Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Applications of AI in smart energy, transportation, electric vehicle charging and disaster re…
Connect with Sebastian

Email: ss2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Post Occupancy Evaluation and Role of Biophilic Design in Enhancing Workplace Environments: A Comparative Study of Office Building in the UK and Indonesia
Muhammad Hero Umar Renaldi, Anna Mavrogianni, Hector Altamirano, Luisa Brotas, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1255
Type: conference
Sentient Buildings
Hooi Foon Chung, Stephanie Gauthier, Hector Altamirano, Luisa Brotas, Fergus Nicol & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1255
Type: conference
The perceived barriers and drivers to sustainable design as a sustainable construction method between UK rural and urban locations
Madelaine Bradley, Emmanouil Perisoglou, Hector Altamirano, Luisa Brotas, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1253
Type: conference
Understanding the Impact of Insulation on Moisture Content of Timber
Fatma Arslan, Hector Altamirano, Luisa Brotas, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol & Rosa Schiano-Phan, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1261
Type: conference
Climate change mitigation and adaptation of UK complex-to-decarbonise homes: building fabric vs. systems upgrade approaches
Maimai Prayongrat, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Hector Altamirano, 2024
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1196
Type: conference
Cooling architecture: Prototyping an optimised PDEC-integrated façade panel to enhance urban thermal comfort
Elisa Martini, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas & Hector Altamirano, 2024
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1195
Type: conference
Correlation analysis of health and mould in buildings: based on the Health Survey for England
Shiqi Yang, Hector Altamirano, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol & Luisa Brotas, 2024
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1204
Type: conference