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Professor David Glew

Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute

As Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute at Leeds Beckett University, David manages and oversees large interdisciplinary projects and supervises a range of doctoral students, across the institutes three research themes of Sustainable Behaviour, Sustainable Buildings and Sustainable Urban Environments.

David's major projects have been Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) research projects to investigate performance gaps and unintended consequences of new low carbon buildings and retrofits.

David's team are specialists in BPE field testing of products and processes, and undertake a range of methods including the coheating test, QUB tests, air leakage detection, air tightness assessments, in use monitoring of energy and smart meter data and indoor air quality, modelling to assess energy use in buildings (including Energy Performance Certificates), and to perform damp and mould risk assessments. His team also explore the potential of behaviour change techniques to encourage healthier or more sustainable choices and understand occupant experiences in homes.

David is an established expert in retrofit evaluation, he was seconded into Government (DESNZ), he is a member of the OFGEM Technical Advisory Panel, he is Associate Editor for the Journal Buildings and Cities and makes appearances on TV, radio and podcasts to discuss his research and topical issues affecting the energy efficiency of homes in the UK.

Research Interests

Over the past decade, Professor Glew's team at the LSI has been responsible for over £5 million of research into domestic energy efficiency including several major UK Government research projects into making retrofits safe and effective. These include:

The Demonstration of Energy Efficiency Potential (DEEP)
The Core cities Green Deal monitoring project
The Thin internal wall insulation (TIWI) project
The Deterioration of Retrofit Insulation Performance (DRIP)
The Infrared Heating field trial investigations

The reports from these projects can be found on the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESZN) website.

This research has made significant impact, for instance, highlighting the risks associated with installing retrofits in solid walled homes and how these may be overcome by adopting the whole house approach, identifying how improvements can be made to Government domestic energy models including the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and quantifying the heat loss reductions achieved by different retrofits.

David's research projects often involve collaborations with other universities and research institutes, or work closely to answer questions on housing and energy efficiency for local and regional government. His projects often help social housing landlords understand how to retrofit their homes and improve the lives of their tenants and assists manufacturers to understand the performance of their products.