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Dr Lucelia Rodrigues is the Chair in Sustainable and Resilient Cities at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment of the University of Nottingham, where her teaching has a strong focus on environmental design and sustainability. Her work has always been very cross-disciplinary, aiming to inform the sustainable practice of architecture and enhance the quality of the built environment. She is particularly interested in the resilience of communities and buildings in a changing climate and has been involved in several projects focused on different aspects of sustainability, particularly energy and comfort. She is the director of the Transport, Mobility and Cities @ Nottingham initiative and runs the MArch in Architecture and Sustainable Design masters programme.
Lucelia qualified as an architect in Brazil in 1999 and spent the next five years working in practice on residential and commercial building projects where she acquired experience in sustainability in architecture. She then completed an MSc in Renewable Energy and Architecture sponsored by a Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholarship through the Chevening Programme, designed to support people with demonstrable potential to become future leaders, decision-makers and opinion formers. Following the completion of her MSc, she was awarded an Industry Studentship and a PhD Scholarship for Research Excellence from Brazil to explore the thermal performance and climate resilience of low-energy houses as part of her doctoral research. This work, completed in 2009, involved the integration and exploitation of high capacitance and high inertial materials to mitigate overheating in dwellings built using lightweight construction materials, and included some of the first in-situ studies of phase-change materials in housing. It was one of the first works in the country to identify and quantify the issues of overheating in housing using empirical data and the application of probabilistic future climate scenarios in dynamic computer simulation.
She is the first female professor in the 178-year history of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment (Est. 1843 as Nottingham Government School of Design).
Lucelia is also a member of the Buildings, Energy & Environment Research Group.
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Teaching Summary
Lucelia has been a full-time lecturer in architecture at the University of Nottingham since 2008 where she teaches mostly at post-graduate level with a strong focus on environmental design and… read more
Research Summary
Having come from architectural practice, her research has always been very hands-on, aiming to inform the sustainable practice of architecture and enhance the quality of the built environment. Her… read more
Selected Publications
RODRIGUES, L., WHITE, J., GILLOTT, M., BRAHAM, E. and ISHAQUE, A., 2018. Theoretical and experimental thermal performance assessment of an innovative external wall insulation system for social housing retrofit: Energy and Buildings Energy and Buildings. 162, 77-90 TUBELO, R., RODRIGUES, L., GILLOTT, M. and GONCALVES SOARES, J., 2018. Cost-effective envelope optimisation for social housing in Brazil's moderate climates zones Building and Environment. BAE5274
Panel Member
2016 - present Sustainable Nottingham strategic working group with Nottingham City Council
2016 - present Nottingham as a Smart City strategic working group with Nottingham City Council
2016 - present Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) validation panel 2016
2011 - present UK Passivhaus Steering Committee
2012 Beyond Zero Carbon Housing
Keynote, Invited Speaker, Lecturer (other Institutions)
04.03.16 - "The Nottingham H.O.U.S.E." Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
29.01.16 - "Shared Energy for Resilient Communities". Collaborative Housing & Community Resilience Seminar funded by the ESRC. Sheffield, UK.
30.11.15 - "Meadows Community Focus Event". MOZES General Meeting. Nottingham, UK.
04.11.15 - "Community Energy in the Meadows" at the Em-Power Nottingham. Nottingham, UK.
05.03.13 - "Voluntary Building Standards: Why Bother?" at Ecobuild. London, UK.
04.10.12 - International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) and Sinduscon: "Is Added Sustainability equal to Added Value?". Sao Paulo, Brazil.
14.05.12 - "Low-carbon housing design informed by research" (with Mark Gillott). Institute of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford Lecture Series. London, UK.
2011 - "Retrofit: Moving in and Moving on - the Applicability of Phase Change Materials in Housing". AECB Annual Conference, Sustainable Building Association. Nottingham, UK.
2010 - "Reflections on the Performance of the BASF House". Good Homes Alliance (GHA). Nottingham, UK.
2010 and 2011 - "The Application of Phase-Change-Materials in Building Design". Invited Lecturer at the MSc & MArch Sustainable Environmental Design - Architectural Association (AA), London, UK.
Invited expert
- The Challenge of Retrofitting Residential Buildings in China, Chongqing, China, 31st October to 2nd November 2014
- Zero Carbon Hub Overheating in Housing Workshop 16 July 2014
Debate Panel Member/ Invited expert
31.10- 02.11.14 The Challenge of Retrofitting Residential Buildings in China, Chongqing, China
16.07.14 Zero Carbon Hub - Overheating Workshop
16.10.14 Bright Energy Futures Tweet-Up (Saint-Gobain & Ecobuild)
05.12.14 RE.WORK Future Cities Summit
18.10.13 UK Passivhaus Conference
Committees, Advisory Boards, Reviewer
- Conference co-chair for the 14th International Conference in Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET) 2015
- Scientific Committee: Passive and Low-Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference; Building Simulation and Optimisation Conference; Passivhaus UK Conference; International Conference of Sustainable Energy Technologies
- Strategic Advisory Panel Member and Organiser: UK Passivhaus Conference 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016; SET 2015, 2016; Beyond Zero Carbon Housing 2012
- PhD External Reviewer: Brunel University 2013
- Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Building and Environment, International Journal of Energy Conversion and Management, International Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society, Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineering - Engineering Sustainability, Journal of Intelligent Buildings International.
- Grant Application Referee: Leverhulme Trust
Vitality Indicators
- Invited Conference Session Chair: International Conference in Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014; International Conference on Passive Low-Energy Architecture (PLEA) 2011; UKPH 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015; Vertical Farming Conference, 2012; Beyond Zero Carbon Housing 2012.
- Conference Contributor: Annual All-Ireland Architecture Research Group Meeting Dublin (AIARG) 2015; International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR at UCL) 2014; Resilience 2014; Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB) 2012; SET 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016; PLEA 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016; GHA 2010, International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) 2012.
- Media Appearance: Housebuilder managzine April 2016; FCO "See Britain Through my Eyes" film series, BBC breakfast 2007, 2008; Nottingham Evening Post 2008 (PhD); Voice of America 2008 (Creative Energy Homes); ITV Central News 2010 (Nottingham H.O.U.S.E.); 'Isto É' magazine (the Brazilian equivalent to Times) 2010; Alderney Press 2006.
Prizes and Awards
- 2010 Best Research Paper for 2010, the Institute of Civil Engineers Trevithick Prize (joint)
- 2010 2nd Place in Sustainability for the Nottingham HOUSE at Solar Decathlon Europe (joint)
- 2010 Best use of timber for the Nottingham HOUSE at Ecobuild, London (joint)
- 2008 1st Prize, Paula Rosa Eco Kitchen Design Award, Nottingham (joint)
- 2005 Industry Studentship for PhD Programme, Nottingham
- 2005 PhD Scholarship for Research Excellence from Brazil, University of Nottingham
- 2004 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholarship, Chevening Programme for Future Leaders
- 2004 Postgraduate Scholarship for Overseas Students, University of Nottingham
Lucelia has been a full-time lecturer in architecture at the University of Nottingham since 2008 where she teaches mostly at post-graduate level with a strong focus on environmental design and sustainable architecture. Her work is very cross-disciplinary, building the link between architecture, building science and renewable energy technologies. She is Course Director for the MArch in Environmental Design. Her 'student evaluation of teaching' scores are consistently amongst the top 5% in our Faculty.
Students under her guidance have won over 30 awards for their projects, including the Nottingham H.O.U.S.E (Home Optimising the Use of Solar Energy) for the Solar Decathlon competition. Some highlights are listed below.
Passivhaus Student Competition
2015 - Chenglei Sheng for Multi-Beeston - 1st Prize
2015 - Sabrina Mostofa for iBee - Highly Commended
Isover Multi-Comfort House Architectural Design Competition
2016 - Hong Long & Abdulquadri Ademakinwa, 1st Prize National Stage - Biophilic District in Brest
2016 - Fenty Indarti & Wang Lu, 2nd Prize National Stage - SEED: Sustainable Evolving Env. of Dvor in Brest
2016 - Sophia Madhi Gnanaprakasam & Pryia Singh, 3rd Prize National Stage - Sustainable Housing in Brest
2014 - Heba Nazer, 1st Prize National Stage & Special Prize Intern Stage - School in Gaziantep, Turkey
2014 - Gigih Nalendra, Haipeng Wang and Nadia Vasti, 2nd Prize National Stage - School in Gaziantep
2012 - Thomas Bennett and Denny Chan, Second Prize, National Stage - Regeneration of the Trent Basin
2012 - Funsho Parrott and Sian Hogdson, Third Prize, National Stage - Regeneration of the Trent Basin
2012 - Seda Kacel and My Dao, Shortlisted at the National Stage - Regeneration of the Trent Basin
2012 - Hung Dang, Shortlisted at the National Stage - Regeneration of the Trent Basin
2012 - Stella Praba and Rong Xu, Shortlisted at the National Stage - Regeneration of the Trent Basin
2008 - Iona Campbell, First Prize, National Stage - School design.
2008 - Thomas Bennett, Second Prize, National Stage - School design.
2008 - Liming Qiao, Third Prize, National Stage - School design.
'The Student Award for Low Carbon Environmental Design' RIBA EM Awards
2010 - Oliver Peach, Alexander Loren-Gosling & Peter Phillips: Green Street Zero Carbon Housing - Winner.
2010 - David Brook & Samantha Barclay: Felton Road Zero Carbon Housing, Meadows - Special mention
2009 - Jun Aso & Jin Dong Wu for Green Street, Zero Carbon Housing, Meadows - Highly Commended
2009 - Benjamin Hopkins, Rachel Lee, and Chris Dalton for the HEART, Zero Carbon Housing, Meadows, Nottingham. Highly Commended
2009 - Alex Lewis, Seema Mistry, and Daniel Dunn, E.ON 2016 House Stage 2 retrofit, achieving Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3. Special mention
Best Paper at the Conference for Masters Students (London Metropolitan University & Arup)
2011 - Rahul Suralkar: solar responsive kinetic facade shading systems inspired by nature
Mario Cucinella Best Case Study Project Award
2013 - Meghna Purkayastha - first prize
2013 - Zhu Wei and Sohni Rajiv Rao - second prize
Rushcliffe Solar Best Use of Photovoltaics Prize
2014 - Chetan Tippa, Regeneration of Matlock, UK
2013 - Sohni Rao, School in Recife, Brazil
2012 - Rishika Shroff & Deepika Singhal, Regeneration of the Trent Basin, Nottingham
Blueprint Award for Excellence in Sustainable Processes and Design
2013 - Sohni Rao, School in Recife, Brazil
2012 - Thomas Bennett and Denny Chan, Regeneration of the Trent Basin, Nottingham
RE-Design Challenge Competition by Hermes Real Estate and supported by ARUP:
2009 - Best technical thinking for Agam Shah
International Solar Decathlon competition "Sustainability Award"
2010 - University of Nottingham Student Team: The Nottingham H.O.U.S.E.
TTJ/Timber & Sustainable Building Timber at Ecobuild prize
2010 - University of Nottingham Student Team: The Nottingham H.O.U.S.E,
Jeffrey Cook Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference Travel Scholarship
2015 - Lorna Kiamba
2011 - Daniela Besser
Current Research
Having come from architectural practice, her research has always been very hands-on, aiming to inform the sustainable practice of architecture and enhance the quality of the built environment. Her work has always been very cross-disciplinary, aiming to inform the sustainable practice of architecture and enhance the quality of the built environment. She is particularly interested in the resilience of communities and buildings in a changing climate and has been involved in several projects focused on different aspects of sustainability, particularly energy and comfort.
Lucelia has developed some of the first in-situ studies of phase-change materials in housing, and one of the first works in the UK that identified and quantified overheating in housing using empirical data and the application of probabilistic future climate scenarios in dynamic computer simulation. She is well-versed in several simulation packages, which she has been using for the last 10 years for teaching, research and consultancy.
She has consistently attracted a high level of research income in the field of architecture and planning. To date, she has been principal investigator in 11 and co-investigator in 9 funded research projects, with a combined value of over £25M. She has over £12M worth of proposals under review as a principle investigator, and a number of others in the pipeline. She has over 70 peer-reviewed research publications including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and conference proceedings as a single editor. She has several articles in the pipeline and planned impact case studies in response to the Research Excellence Framework requirements. She currently supervise 10 PhD students, of which 5 are about to finish, and has supervised 4 others to completion.
Lucelia has been invited to chair international conferences, to speak in CPD courses as well as in postgraduate courses at other universities, and to deliver keynote presentations at academic and professional events. Through collaboration in research projects and other activities, she has built a strong relationship with key industry partners and policy makers, such as AT Kearney, Siemens, Igloo Blueprint, Tarmac, Saint Gobain, Nottingham City Council and Nottingham City Homes. She currently sits in the Nottingham Sustainable Development Strategy working group, the Nottingham Green Partnership and the Nottingham Smart City team.
She is UoN's leading investigator in the €8.9M (£6.75M) EU funded 'Transitioning towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability' TURAS, in the EnvirUP £632k 'Scaling-up retrofit' project funded by Innovate UK to develop a new external wall insulation system and two projects focused on the climate resilience of dwellings. She is also the leader investigator in the TARMAC funded project on sustainable concrete solutions for resilient housing (£65k) and a co-investigator in the Disruptive Technologies project (£45k) funded by the same company.
She is a collaborator in the £2.5M award winning Creative Energy Homes and an investigator in the SCENIC (Smart Controlled Energy Networks Integrated in Communities) project funded by the Energy Technologies Institute (£422k) that focuses on designing, constructing and demonstrating an integrated community heat and power network to demonstrate how an integrated energy management system can support resilience and sustainability within communities. She is also an investigator in the EU funded €15M (£11.8M) 'Storage Enabled Sustainable Energy for Buildings and Communities' SENSIBLE project that aims to make communities more resilient to changes in energy provision. In addition, she is an investigator in Project SCENe at the Trent Basin, which looks to accelerate the adoption of Community Energy in the UK.
Further examples of current research include: the Intelligent Energy Europe £1,5M funded EDUCATE (Environmental Design in University Curricula and Architectural Training in Europe), the Network Rail funded project to investigate life-cycle assessment and carbon impact of the British rail station building stock; the applicability of Passivhaus and the fabric-first approach in Brazil; energy efficiency in developing countries with warm humid climates; facade design for energy efficiency in the Golf Region; natural ventilation in office buildings in China; comfort in primary schools in hot and humid climates; and two PhD projects looking at future-proving the integration of sustainable communities into the urban fabric.
Lucelia's research area is broadly sustainable and resilient cities.
Specific areas of interest include:
- Climate resilience of buildings, particularly in low-energy housing
- Human comfort and overheating
- Community resilience, particularly through energy security
- Modern methods of construction, prefabrication and custom-built homes
- Passive heating and cooling techniques
- Post-occupancy evaluation and the performance gap
- Education for sustainability in architecture
Past Research
Some of my current and past projects:
The Active Building Centre - The Active Building Centre's vision is to transform the UK construction and energy sectors through the deployment of Active Buildings contributing to more efficient energy use and decarbonisation.
EV-elocity - EV-elocity looks at increasing the uptake of electric vehicles through helping consumers to monetise their investment using vehicle-to-grid innovation, enabling the optimisation of energy use and supporting the decarbonisation of cities and communities.
AMiCc - AMiCc will demonstrate how wireless technology can unlock a range of the blockers to the market transitioning to electric vehicles and decarbonized cities
Re-inhabiting the City - explores the sustainable reoccupation of city centres
Smart Campus Initiative - The University has opened up its campus to enable students, academics and businesses to examine and evaluate user behaviours and to trial smart concepts, particularly in the energy and mobility domains.
Creative Energy Homes - A research/educational 8-house project and showcase of innovative energy efficient solutions for sustainable homes and communities.
Smart Nottingham - Our SMART City programme aims to work with our universities and with industry to deploy emergent technology solutions across energy, transport, housing, and health services while exploring the interaction between these. We want to focus on adopting disruptive technology that improves lives as a result.
Project SENSIBLE - Storage Enabled Sustainable Energy for Buildings and Communities
Project SCENe (Sustainable Community Energy Networks) at Nottingham's Trent Basin
TURAS - Urban Resilience and Sustainability
EnvirUP - Scaling-up retrofit project funded by Innovate UK to develop a new external wall insulation system for building retrofit.
SCENIC - Smart Controlled Energy Networks Integrated in Communities
EDUCATE - Environmental Design in University Curricula and Architectural Training in Europe
Supervised completed PhDs:
Le, Ms Thi Ho Vi, (2019) Investigating the Influence of Design Parameters on the Indoor Environmental Quality and Comfort in Primary Schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham
Siebert, A. Michael (2019) Barriers to Innovation in UK Volume House Building PhD thesis, University of Nottingham
Ghabra, Noura (2018) Energy efficient strategies for the building envelope of residential tall buildings in Saudi Arabia. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Alvarez, Laura B. (2018) Morphological, social and perceptual dimensions of public places in British neighbourhoods. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Item availability restricted.
Haji Adenan, Rozia (2018) Fostering Social Resilience of the Low-Income for Sustainable Housing Communities.PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Item availability restricted.
Sougkakis, Vasileios (2017) An investigation into the overheating risk in low-energy new-built homes. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Item availability restricted.
Camboim Salatino Tubelo, Renata (2016) The application of the 'fabric first' approach to improve thermal comfort and energy efficiency in affordable housing in Southern Brazil. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Item availability restricted.
Kiamba, Lorna Ndanu (2016) Optimising environmental design strategies to improve thermal performance in office buildings in Kenya. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Wu, Jindong (2015) Thermal comfort and occupant behaviour in office buildings in south-east China. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Future Research
Future research focus is, in addition to the above, also moving towards energy use and comfort standards in developing countries, off-site construction and custom build solutions, and independent/assisted living.
I welcome enquiries from potential PhD candidates from Home, EU and international countries who are interested in the following research areas:
- Sustainable practice of architecture,
- Resilience of communities and buildings,
- Energy use and comfort standards,
- Passive heating and cooling techniques,
- Modern methods of construction,
- Prefabrication and custom-built homes,
- Independent/assisted living.
Research gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucelia_Rodrigues
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ORCID ID 0000-0002-0038-6578
Scopus Author ID: 55174327500
JONES, S. R., GILLOTT, M., BOUKHANOUF, R., WALKER, G., TUNZI, M., TETLOW, D., RODRIGUES, L. and SUMNER, M., 2019. A system design for distributed energy generation in low-temperature district heating (LTDH) networks: Future Cities and Environment Future Cities and Environment. 5(1), RODRIGUES, L., WHITE, J., GILLOTT, M., BRAHAM, E. and ISHAQUE, A., 2018. Theoretical and experimental thermal performance assessment of an innovative external wall insulation system for social housing retrofit: Energy and Buildings Energy and Buildings. 162, 77-90 TUBELO, R., RODRIGUES, L., GILLOTT, M. and GONCALVES SOARES, J., 2018. Cost-effective envelope optimisation for social housing in Brazil's moderate climates zones Building and Environment. BAE5274 DAVID PARRA, MACIEJ SWIERCZYNSKI, DANIEL I. STROE, STUART.A. NORMAN, ANDREAS ABDON, JÖRG WORLITSCHEK, TRAVIS O’DOHERTY, LUCELIA RODRIGUES, MARK GILLOTT, XIAOJIN ZHANG, CHRISTIAN BAUER and MARTIN K. PATEL, 2017. An interdisciplinary review of energy storage for communities: Challenges and perspectives Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 79, 730 - 749 ANDREA PARRA and LUCELIA RODRIGUES, 2017. Sustainable Homes for the Elderly The International Journal of Aging and Society. 7(4), pp.55-71 NOURA GHABRA, LUCELIA RODRIGUES and PHILLIP OLDFIELD, 2017. The Impact of the Building Envelope on the Energy Efficiency of Residential Tall Buildings in Saudi Arabia International Journal of Low Carbon Technologies. (In Press.)
NOURA GHABRA, LUCELIA RODRIGUES and PHILLIP OLDFIELD, 2017. Improving Energy Performance in Gulf-Region Residential High-Rises The International Journal on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. pp. 38-43 MAURICIO LECARO, BENSON LAU, LUCELIA RODRIGUES and DIK JARMAN, 2017. The application of vernacular Australian environmental design principles in Glenn Murcutt's architecture International Journal of Future Cities and Environment. 3(3), 1-18 MESTRE, N., RODRIGUES, L., HURTADO, E. and ROIG, E., 2017. Chapter 21: From grey towards green: about the urban energy fold at Symbiont City. In: FERNANDEZ, R., ZUBELZY, S. and MARTINEZ, R., eds., Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle: From Urban Planning to Recycling, Green Energy and Technology Springer International Publishing. pp 485-500 MARK LANGDON, MARK GILLOTT, LUCELIA RODRIGUES and TONY PARRY, 2016. Internalising Externalities for a Sustainable Rail Asset Base International Journal of Infrastructure Asset Management. IAsMa-D-14-00026 (In Press.)
LUCELIA RODRIGUES, JULIAN MARSH, LORNA KIAMBA, MARK GILLOTT and TRAVIS O'DOHERTY, 2016. The case for Localised Energy Management to Support Resilient Cities In: In: Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments - 32nd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture - PLEA 2016, 11th - 13th July 2016, Los Angeles, USA..
LANGDON, M., GILLOTT, M., RODRIGUES, L. and PARRY, T., 2016. The case for internalising externalities in a sustainable rail asset base. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Infrastructure Asset Management.. TUBELO, R, RODRIGUES, L and GILLOTT, M, 2016. Building Envelope Optimisation for a Single-family Detached Brazilian Mass Housing In: Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments - 32nd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture - PLEA 2016, 11th-13th July 2016, Los Angeles, USA.. II. 1318-1324 ABDULLA, Z. and RODRIGUES, L., 2016. The effect of shading, infiltration and ventilation levels on overheating and heating demands in UK residential buildings - Case study: Trent Basin Regeneration. In: Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture - PLEA 2016, July 11-13, Los Angeles, California, USA. II. 1371-1377 VI LE, T. H., GILLOTT, M. and RODRIGUES, L., 2016. The Case for Hybrid Ventilated Primary Schools in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. In: Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture - PLEA 2016, July 11-13, Low Angeles, California, USA. III. 1682-1687 BORSI, K., ALVAREZ, L., RODRIGUES, L. and GILLOTT, M., 2015. Community resilience and social equity for the sustainable development of disadvantaged neighbourhoods At: AR 2015 Architecture and Resilience at the Human Scale
RODRIGUES, L. and GILLOTT, M., 2015. The role of community-based energy management schemes in supporting resilience At: AR 2015 Architecture and Resilience at the Human Scale
SOUGKAKIS, V., RODRIGUES, L., NAZER, H. and GILLOTT, G., 2014. Comparing the thermal performance of timber frame vs masonry low-energy dwellings in the UK today and in the future In: SET 2014 - 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. Geneva, Switzerland 25- 28 August 2014
TUBELO, R., RODRIGUES, L. and GILLOTT, M., 2014. An Investigation into the optimisation of the building envelope for energy efficiency in Brazilian housing In: SET 2014 - 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. Geneva, Switzerland 25- 28 August 2014
RODRIGUES, L. and GARRATT, T., 2014. Wind Power: Two Sides of the Same Coin In: SET 2014 - 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. Geneva, Switzerland 25- 28 August 2014
KIAMBA, L., RODRIGUES, L. and LAU, B., 2014. Climate-responsive Vernacular Swahili Housing In: PLEA 2014 – 30th Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies – Choosing the Way Forward.. Ahmedabad, India
ADENAN, R., RODRIGUES, L., BORSI, K. and KIAMBA, L., 2014. Kampong Ayer: A Community Living on Water in Brunei Darussalam In: PLEA 2014 – 30th Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies – Choosing the Way Forward.. Ahmedabad, India
RODRIGUES, L., TETLOW, D., GILLOTT, M. and SOUGKAKIS, V., 2014. Chapter 10: The Application of Phase Change Materials to Improve the Climate Resilience of a Low-Energy Prototype House. In: DINCET, I., MIDILLI, A. and KUCUK, H., eds., Progress in Sustainable Energy Technologies Vol II: Creating Sustainable Development II. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. pp 135-150 RODRIGUES, L., TETLOW, D., GILLOTT, M. and SOUGKAKIS, V., 2014. Progress in Sustainable Energy Technologies Vol II: Creating Sustainable Development. In: DINCET, I., MIDILLI, A. and KUCUK, H., eds., The Application of Phase Change Materials to Improve the Climate Resilience of a Low-Energy Prototype House 2. Springer International Publishing - Switzerland. 135 - 150 RODRIGUES, L., ALVAREZ, L., BORSI, K. and GILLOTT, M., 2014. A bifocal approach for framing community resilience In: 2nd International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR).
KIAMBA, L., RODRIGUES, L. and LAU, B., 2014. Climate-responsive Vernacular Swahili Housing At: Rawal, R., Manu, S., & Khadpekar, N., eds. 30th International Passive and Low-energy Architecture Conference ADENAN, R., RODRIGUES, L., BORSI, K. and KIAMBA, L., 2014. Kampong Ayer: A Community Living on Water in Brunei Darussalam At: Rawal, R., Manu, S., & Khadpekar, N., eds. 30th International Passive and Low-energy Architecture Conference RODRIGUES, L.T., GILLOTT, M. and TETLOW, D., 2013. Summer overheating potential in a low-energy steel frame house in future climate scenarios Sustainable Cities and Society. 7(July), 1-15 RODRIGUES, L. T. and GILLOTT, M., 2013. Climate resilience of a low-energy prototype house: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering Sustainability Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering Sustainability. 166(6), 337-350 RODRIGUES, L., SOUGKAKIS, V. and GILLOTT, M., 2013. The Use of Thermal Mass to Mitigate Overheating in an Affordable Low-Energy Pre-fabricated Timber House In: SET 2013 - 12th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. (In Press.)
2013. Book Review: Passive solar Architecture Pocket Reference: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability, ICE Publishing. . 01/01/1900 00:00:00
RODRIGUES, L., GARRATT, T. and EBBS, N., 2012. Is added sustainability equal to added value? Energy Conversion and Management. 63(November), 203–207 RODRIGUES, L., 2012. Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference Engineering Sustainability: ICE. (In Press.)
RODRIGUES, L. and GILLOT, M., 2012. Modern Methods of Construction in The UK: Drivers, Acceptance and Applicability In: AEC 2012 - 7th International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering & Construction. Sao Paulo, Brazil. (In Press.)
RODRIGUES, L., TETLOW, D., GILLOT, M. and SOUGKAKIS, V., 2012. The Application of Phase Change Materials to Improve the Climate Resilience of a Low-Energy Prototype House. In: SET2012 - 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies.. (In Press.)
BESSER, D., RODRIGUES, L.. and BOBADILLA, A, 2012. New Chilean Building Regulations and Energy Efficient Housing in Disaster Zones: Opportunities, Limits & Needs Towards an environmentally responsible architecture. Lima, Peru. In: PLEA 2012 - 28th Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture.
RODRIGUES, L.. and GILLOTT, M., 2012. Building for Future Climate Resilience:: A comparative Study of the Thermal Performance of Eight Constructive Methods. Stockholm, Sweden In: Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB'12.
GARRAT, T. and RODRIGUES, 2011. The Desirability of Energy Efficient Buildings in The UK In: SET 2011 - 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. Istanbul, Turkey.. (In Press.)
RODRIGUES, L., 2011. Integrity: Conditioned Beauty. In: DEAN, D., ed., Made in the Middle Ground: Architecture + urbanism at ABE Nottingham 2011 Methexis Press.
RODRIGUES, L. and GILLOT, M., 2011. The Summer Performance of the BASF House. In: MAGALI BODART and ARNAUD EVRARD, eds., Architecture & Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2011. Volume 1. Presses Universitaires de Louvain. 493-498 GILLOTT, M., WILSON, R., GUZMAN, G., OLIVER, D., STACEY, M., FORD, B., RODRIGUES, L., RAMSAY, J., SHAW, L., HOPKINS, B., HIBBERT, R. and DALTON, C., 2011. The Nottingham H.O.U.S.E.. In: 10ACTION, ed., Solar Decathlon 2010: Towards Energy Efficient Buildings Intelligent Energy Europe. RODRIGUES, L. and GILLOTT, M., 2011. The Summer Performance of the BASF House At: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
RODRIGUES, L., 2011. In: Integrity:Conditioned Beauty Deane.D., Editor. Made in the middle ground: architecture and urbanism at ABE Nottingham. Nottingham: Methexis Press.
GILLOTT, M., RODRIGUES, L.T. and SPATARU, C., 2010. Low carbon housing design informed by research Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Engineering Sustainability. 163(2), 77-87 RODRIGUES, L. and GILLOTT, M., 2010. A Novel Space Conditioning System Incorporating Phase Change Materials and Earth to Air Heat Exchangers In: SET2010 - 9th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. (In Press.)
RODRIGUES, L., 2010. Learning by Doing The Timber Industry Magazine. Available at: <http://www.medite2016.com/wood-pdfs/woodfutures_may10.pdf> RODRIGUES, L., FOX, C. and GREEN, E., 2006. Building Regeneration: The Saye Farm Cottages: Updating Alderney's Heritage to Zero-carbon Houses In: Star City Conference: Mid Term Technical Feedback Meeting. (In Press.)
RODRIGUES, L., 2005. Low Energy Eco-Homes and the Application of Earth-Air Heat Exchangers University of Nottingham - MSc Thesis. (In Press.)
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