Reading Climate Festival is a week-long programme of free events to inspire action on climate change, curated by Reading Climate Action Network. As part of Reading Climate Festival, Professors Tim…Read More >
Flexibility Reading Room on Conceptualising Flexibility
On Tuesday 28th July 2020 the Flexibility Theme held the first of a series of ‘Reading Room’ seminars starting with the very idea of ‘flexibility’ itself. Future topics are ‘seasonality’…Read More >
Energy during UK lockdown and the best time to bake bread
Energy during UK lockdown: – longest coal-free run – weekend levels of energy demand during weekdays – significantly cleaner electricity during peak times Read the story on the Conversation here:…Read More >
The Social Value Toolkit for Architecture
The Social Value Toolkit for Architecture has just been published by the RIBA. Written by the Research Practice Leads, a group of architecture practitioners led by Prof Flora Samuel, and…Read More >
Bursting the bubble?
Sarah Royston reviews Jacopo Torriti’s webinar on Demand Side Flexibility: Beyond price and technology, 02 June 2020. Jacopo Torriti’s webinar began with an intriguing graphic, which represents the amount of…Read More >
Lockdown and electricity demand in the UK: Flexing demand to when renewables are on by Jacopo Torriti
The Covid-19 lockdown presented the UK energy system with a new set of challenges, emphasised the importance of renewables and taught some lessons around flexible tariffs and negative prices. Graph…Read More >
Funding success for European Marie Curie ITN project on affordable housing
RE-DWELL involves Professor Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at Reading as a Co-Investigator. The project will equip a new generation of researchers with transdisciplinary skills to…Read More >
Demand Side Flexibility: Beyond price and technology – CREDS Webinar by Jacopo Torriti
Professor Jacopo Torriti will present research carried out by the CREDS Flexibility theme, including historical progressions in peak demand, core power demand (core capacity) estimates from different smart metering datasets,…Read More >
Dr Izabela Wieczorek’s contribution has been shortlisted for the prestigious FAD Awards
The book José Miguel de Prada Poole. La arquitectura perecedera de las pompas de jabón (José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles) (Recolectores Urbanos, 2019)…Read More >