Lima – A visit Towards Equitable Urban Building Energy Modelling
Posted by Argyrios Oraiopoulos on December 6, 2022
Looking over the airplane window. Lima, the capital of Peru. 10 million inhabitants, doubled since 1980, with an estimated 30% occupying land on the steep peripheral slopes, in self-constructed neighbourhoods. This visit would not only bring the team members close for the first time, it would also bring our thinking and our modelling closer to…
Cross disciplinary confusion - how do you explain urban building models to a social scientist?
Posted by Pamela Fennell on February 14, 2022
GEMDev is an inherently multi-disciplinary project with researchers from engineering, architecture and social science backgrounds as well as NGO partners working directly with marginalised communities in Lima and Ahmedabad. Although our goals are aligned, developing a shared understanding of the methods and tools we each use has been a vital step in the project to…
Can all dimensions of energy use patterns be represented?
Posted by Harshavardhan Jatkar on August 11, 2021
Energy use patterns in human settlements around the world are complex. Growing evidence on how people use and consume energy shows that energy use patterns cut across the public/private, work/home, past/future, needs/aspirational boundaries. In increasingly uncertain times, people’s energy use is contingent on social, political, technological, environmental and economic changes around them. Based on our…
