Virginia Gori
Dr Virginia Gori is a Lecturer in Buildings and Energy at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London. Her research focusses on using data-driven approaches to understand the operational performance of buildings, to provide evidence-based insights for better design and decision-making in the building industry and policy landscape. Her expertise lies at the interface of building physics, in-situ monitoring and energy modelling and analytics, often with a focus on retrofit.
Virginia is Technical Committee member for the European Committee for Standardisation and has been expert member in the International Energy Agency (IEA) Annex 71, Annex 81 and Task 59/Annex 76 projects.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/energy/people/dr-virginia-gori
Latest Commentaries
5th Anniversary Essays
These commissioned essays from Buildings & Cities' authors and readers explore how the research landscape is changing. New essays are continuously being added to the collection during 2024 as part of B&C's anniversary.
Collectively, these essays offer fresh insights into the processes and issues that are currently inadequate or missing in the built environment research landscape. A wide perspective from different disciplines and geographies creates a positive, collective vision for shaping the research agenda. Recommendations are made for what needs to change.
We hope this will provoke and inspire research funders, researchers and other stakeholders to discuss, reflect and act. Ideas range from systemic change to key research questions to improving engagement to change of focus.
The Challenges of Evidence-Based Design
While some progress has been made, particularly in areas like healing architecture where the impact of design on human well-being is more directly observable, much work remains to be done to extend evidence-based design to broader fields of architecture, urban planning and design. Meta Berghauser Pont (Chalmers University of Technology) explains the challenges and pathways needed for a shift toward evidence-based design in urban planning and urban design.