Does tenure matter for occupant experiences of low-energy housing?

Moore, T; Sherriff, GA; Whaley, DM; Berry, SR

Abstract

International policy settings are looking toward low-energy and near zero-energy homes as a solution to address environmental impacts, particularly anthropogenic climate change. There is increasing research evaluating sus-tainable housing developments from a technical and occupant perspective. One of the key determinants of household energy use is tenure. However, there is limited research which has looked at if tenure impacts on how oc-cupants experience low-energy homes. This paper contributes to the litera-ture by exploring three low-energy housing developments and exploring the role of tenure in relation to how the households experience the dwellings. The case studies demonstrate that social housing tenants have frustrations with a lack of control over what they could, or could not, do to their low-energy dwellings, in comparison to owner-occupier housing.

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 10th International Conference in Sustainability on Energy and Buildings (SEB’18)
• End Date: Jun 26, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 9, 2019
• Deposit Date: Mar 29, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 1, 2019
• Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
• Series Number: 131
• Book Title: Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2018 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference in Sustainability on Energy and Buildings (SEB’18)
• ISBN: 9783030042929;-9783030042936
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04293-6_44
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04293-6_44
• Related Public URLs: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-04293-6
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference