Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
built enviroment consultancy
experts within the lsi are at the forefront of research, advancing knowledge and capability in energy and buildings
The team are interdisciplinary with a diverse range of skills that ensure they can comprehensively understand factors affecting building construction, operation and performance. Behaviour and data scientists, and physicists all play an important role in understanding current building and occupant behaviour and how advances in construction, materials and smart technologies can be used to transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.
our Impact
Projects undertaken by the group have led to changes and updates in the Building Regulations which have in turn resulted in the reduction of millions of tonnes of CO2 also benefiting most new-home owners through lower fuel bills. The changes have also resulted in warmer homes, taking many families out of fuel poverty.
We have worked with some of the leading materials suppliers, such as Saint Gobain and Knauf, on major R&D projects improving product performance and also with forward thinking developers such as CITU, Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust and Hill as they transform to low and zero carbon homes.
The LSI, within the School of the Built Environment, Engineering and Computing are founder Members of the Building Performance Network, an Institutional member of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM), a CIB Member and has participated in a number of International Energy Agency projects.
Projects
Professor Chris Gorse, Director of the LSI has been researching ways to reduce domestic energy and improve product performance for over 20 years. The LSI has provided consultancy services to business in the following specialist areas:
- Smart meter and environmental technologies
- Renewable energy, heat networks, heat pumps, hydrogen and solar photovoltaics
- Governance systems, regulations and policy controls
- Data science and analytics – applied to energy and environment
- Building simulation – domestic and commercial building
- Indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring
- Building Surveying and Forensic Performance Investigation
- Building Fabric Performance testing, including coheating, QUB, heatfux measurement, in-use assessment
- Airtightness, including blower door, pulse and CO2 decay methods
- Occupant and Energy Behaviour
- Monitoring of the build process for new build and refurbishment
- Under-Construction Testing & Post-Construction Testing
- In-use Energy assessment
- Post-Occupancy Evaluation
- Elemental performance, including testing of Walls (internal, external and party walls), floors, roofs and components
Do you have a project you'd like to discuss?
If you have a specific project you would like to discuss or, for general information about our consultancy services please contact the University Enterprise office.
Our Clients
We work with developers and suppliers to improve methods of constructing new homes as well as developing methods to extend the lives of existing buildings and reduce emissions. We also work with local authorities providing information to inform policy issues relating to the development of sustainable housing.
Our clients and partners include:
- Harrogate Borough Council
- Wakefield District Council
- Leeds City Council
- Knauf
- Saint Gobain
- Northern Gas Networks
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Innovate UK, EPSRC
- Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
- Urban Buzz
- National Trust
