GoodDeeds: Digitally engaging & empowering employees for energy demand reduction

GoodDeeds将使用数字技术，通过让员工参与并赋予他们权力来减少公共建筑对环境的影响，从而促进行为改变。英国近20%的能源消耗和二氧化碳排放来自非住宅建筑。鉴于目前估计建筑中约30%的能源目前被浪费，行为改变倡议可能会产生重大影响。这项研究的目的是与莱斯特市议会合作开发一套社交媒体/智能手机工具，地方当局可以使用这些工具来减少其建筑库存的能源需求。这项研究旨在探索数字技术在非住宅环境中减少用户行为和能源需求的机会和影响，使建筑用户能够了解其活动对环境的影响，并通过数字技术的社交媒体应用在网络中采取行动。例如，社交媒体平台为建筑用户提供了查看建筑能耗并在能耗出人意料地高时提供评论的能力。可以拍摄和发布任何问题的照片或视频；可以分享如何最好地管理房间温度的知识；访客可以分享他们的观点，能源经理可以分享最佳实践，并从建筑用户那里获得洞察，如果他们的建筑能源管理系统发出警报的话。重要的是，这项研究旨在探索社交媒体工具的潜力，以克服许多建筑用户因无法控制或影响建筑的能源性能而感到缺乏赋权的问题。该项目的发现应该会增加对信息和通信技术如何帮助社会实现具有挑战性和雄心勃勃的碳减排目标的理解。鉴于建筑环境的高能源需求和碳足迹，迫切需要在非住宅建筑中实施有效和负担得起的能源需求减少战略。因此，Gooddeds的潜在影响是找到一种负担得起的基于信通技术的解决方案，使用户能够协作、分享知识并减少纯技术方法所固有的一些错误。这可能会对建筑物的管理方式、建筑物能源管理系统的运行以及建筑物用户如何体验和感知建筑物产生影响。但这不仅仅是关于建筑的。Gooddeds试图证明，解决我们这个时代的重大挑战不会仅仅通过“自上而下”的解决方案来解决，而是通过坚持积极公民的参与和培养的方法来解决，这些公民理解他们对环境和对彼此的责任，并为共同利益而共同行动。

GoodDeeds will use digital technologies to facilitate behaviour change through engaging and empowering employees to reduce the environmental impact of public buildings. Almost 20% of the UK's energy consumption and CO2 emissions arise from non-domestic buildings. Behaviour change initiatives could have a significant impact given current estimates that around 30% of energy in buildings is currently wasted. The aim of the research then is to work with Leicester City Council to develop a set of social media/smartphone tools that the local authority can use to reduce the energy demand across its building stock. This research aims to explore the opportunities for and impact of digital technologies on user-behaviour and energy demand reduction in the non-domestic setting through enabling building users to both understand the environmental impact of their activities and to act in networks through social media applications of the digital technology. For example, social media platforms offer building-users the ability to view the energy consumption of the building and offer comment if the consumption is unexpectedly high. Photos or video can be taken and posted of any issues; knowledge can be shared on how best to manage a room's temperature; visitors can share their views and energy managers can share best practice and gain insight from building-users if their building energy management system is flagging up an alert. Importantly the research aims to explore the potential of social media tools to overcome the lack of empowerment many building-users feel in being unable to control or affect the building's energy performance.Findings from the project should increase understanding on how ICT can help society meet challenging and ambitious carbon reduction targets. Given the high energy demand and carbon footprint of the built environment there is a pressing need to implement effective and affordable energy demand reduction strategies in non-domestic buildings. The potential impact of Gooddeeds then is in finding an affordable ICT based solution for building users to collaborate, share knowledge and mitigate some of the errors inherent in the solely technical approach. This could impact on the way buildings are managed, building energy management systems are operated and how building users experience and perceive buildings. But this is not simply about buildings. Gooddeeds seeks to demonstrate that solutions to the grand challenges of our age will not be resolved by merely 'top down' solutions but by approaches that insist on the engagement and nurturing of active citizens who understand their responsibilities to their environment and to each other, and who act together for the mutual good.