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 response
Connect with Sebastian

Email: ss2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Privacy-Preserving Occupancy Estimation
Jennifer Williams, Vahid Yazdanpanah & Sebastian Stein, 2023
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095340
Type: conference
Safe Audio AI Services in Smart Buildings
Jennifer Williams, Vahid Yazdanpanah & Sebastian Stein, 2022
DOI: 10.1145/3563357.3564076
Type: conference
Low-carbon comfort management for smart buildings
Jennifer Williams, Benjamin Lellouch, Sebastian Stein, Christina Vanderwel & Stephanie Gauthier, 2022
DOI: 10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922474
Type: conference
An evaluation of window parameters effects on daylight and energy saving in residential building in Saudi Arabia: An integrated optimisation and sensitivity analysis
Shima H. AlDhaheri, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas, Rosa Schiano-Phan, Nichaphat Sukontason & Philip Turner, 2022
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1095
Type: conference
An experimental investigation of how human activities affect the behaviour of indoor airborne particles
Yiming Qi, Spyros Efthymiopoulos, Hector Altamirano, Stephanie Gauthier, Fergus Nicol, Luisa Brotas, Rosa Schiano-Phan, Nichaphat Sukontason & Philip Turner, 2022
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1089
Type: conference