David Glew
Professor David Glew is the Head of Energy Efficiency and Policy in the Leeds Sustainability Institute, based at Leeds Beckett University, where he undertakes research into the sustainability of the built environment.
He has special interest in the embodied and operational energy use of buildings, improving building performance evaluation tools and models and investigating how behaviour change can address issues including indoor air quality, thermal comfort, the performance gap and achieving zero carbon living.
His recent research projects have evaluated the energy performance and risks associated with domestic retrofits and investigated the robustness of building energy models and thermal simulations.
Latest Commentaries
Systems Thinking is Needed to Achieve Sustainable Cities
As city populations grow, a critical current and future challenge for urban researchers is to provide compelling evidence of the medium and long-term co-benefits of quality, low-carbon affordable housing and compact urban design. Philippa Howden-Chapman (University of Otago) and Ralph Chapman (Victoria University of Wellington) explain why systems-based, transition-oriented research on housing and associated systemic benefits is needed now more than ever.
Unmaking Cities Can Catalyse Sustainable Transformations
Andrew Karvonen (Lund University) explains why innovation has limitations for achieving systemic change. What is also needed is a process of unmaking (i.e. phasing out existing harmful technologies, processes and practices) whilst ensuring inequalities, vulnerabilities and economic hazards are avoided. Researchers have an important role to identify what needs dismantling, identify advantageous and negative impacts and work with stakeholders and local governments.