Healthy Energy Efficient Dwellings (HEED)

因为人们90%的时间都呆在室内；暴露于室内空气质量差（IAQ）可能会对他们的健康产生负面影响。此外，2019冠状病毒病大流行暴露了社会中某些群体的深刻社会脆弱性，特别是那些健康状况不佳的群体。此外，由于气候变化，预计到2070年，英国的外部气温将上升5°C以上，热浪的频率和强度也将增加。外部温度上升大大增加了过热、冷负荷、建筑物能耗和相关碳排放的风险，这一问题特别影响到包括儿童和建筑物老年居住者在内的弱势群体的健康和福祉。因此，迫切需要通过制定有效的干预措施，改善弱势群体住房的健康和生活条件，解决这一多方面的知识差距。该项目旨在填补评估和改善委员会住宅室内空气质量（IAQ）和热舒适方面的知识空白。其目的是最终制定技术行为干预措施，改善人们的健康和室内环境条件，并减少能源消耗和相关的碳排放。我们预计该项目将对住房设计政策产生积极影响，并提高公众对行为改变的必要性的认识，以实现净零碳目标，同时改善居住者的健康和福祉。

As people spend up to 90% of their time indoor; exposure to poor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) may negatively affect their health. Moreover, the COVID19 pandemic has revealed the profound social vulnerability of certain groups in society, particularly those struggling with poor health conditions. Additionally, the external air temperatures in the UK are expected to rise by over 5°C by 2070, as a result of climate change, with the frequency and intensity of heat waves also expected to increase. Rising external temperatures increase significantly the risk of overheating, cooling load, energy consumption in buildings and associated carbon emissions, with the problem being particularly affecting health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations including children and older occupants of buildings. There is therefore an urgent need to address this multi-faceted knowledge gap by developing effective interventions that improve health and living conditions in homes occupied by vulnerable populations. The project aims to fill a knowledge gap in evaluating and improving indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort in council homes. The purpose is to ultimately develop technical-behavioural interventions that improves people's health, indoor environmental conditions, and reduces energy consumption and associated carbon emissions. We anticipate the project will have a positive impact on housing design policies, as well as increase public awareness on the necessity for behaviour change to achieve net zero carbon targets, whilst improving occupants' health and wellbeing.