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The Leeds Sustainability Institute is based in the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing at Leeds Beckett University. https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/leeds-sustainability-institute

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Sensing Leeds: Shaping the Future of Urban Environmental Data Eventbrite - Leeds Beckett University The Knowledge Exchange presents Sensing Leeds: Shaping the Future of Urban Environmental Data - Monday, September 29, 2025 at The Knowledge Exchange (Room 148), R...

Is there a better way to start next week than listening to Dr Jim Parker introduce Sensing Leeds? Learn about this open-access digital platform of >100 environmental sensors across the Leeds area.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sensing-le...

24.09.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Flyer for Climate Action Leeds Networking Event on October 7, 2025, at All Hallows Church. Focus on climate action, networking, and refreshments.

Flyer for Climate Action Leeds Networking Event on October 7, 2025, at All Hallows Church. Focus on climate action, networking, and refreshments.

๐ŸŒฑ Ready to spark change? Join us at the Climate Action Leeds Networking Event!

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Oct 7, 2025
โฐ 6-8:30 PM
๐Ÿ“ All Hallows Church, LS6 1NP

Connect with change-makers in energy, housing, nature, and more. Let's inspire each other for a sustainable future! ๐ŸŒโœจ

#ClimateAction #Networking

16.09.2025 08:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Read our latest article on The Conversation, from Dr Sarah Price @leeds-lsi.bsky.social - 'When insulation goes wrong โ€“ the science behind why botched retrofits can be so damaging'.

#AcademicSky #retrofit #insulation #sustainability

17.09.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Quantifying inter-dwelling air exchanges during fan pressurisation tests | Buildings & Cities

Measuring airtightness is important to understand ventilation and heat loss, but how much of that measured air leakage is to outside and how much is to neighbouring homes? If anyone has more data to add to this, we'd like to hear from you.
journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10....

16.09.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beyond the 30,000 Homes: Raising Retrofit Standards for Good - Retrofit Academy Written by Dr Sarah Price

Are 30,000 government-funded retrofitted UK homes really at risk? Our Dr Sarah Price explains...
click.global.easyfairs.com?qs=ee050794d...

15.09.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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IR heating research at Leeds Beckett University: benefits and challenges | David Glew posted on the topic | LinkedIn Infrared (IR) heating can help reduce carbon emissions from homes, however, our research suggests it might not be so straight forward! Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has published our la...

www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

10.09.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Damp and Mould Awareness Workshop | Climate Action Leeds Understanding Damp & Mould: Protecting Your Home & Health

Still places available for Damp & Mould Awareness Course Wed 25 June.
www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/event-detail...

24.06.2025 09:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Research finds problems with common building performance test that could affect EPCs and mould risk | Leeds Beckett University Research finds problems with common building performance test that could affect EPCs and mould risk

Ever wondered why the ventilation of your low-rise attached home doesn't seem to tally with your blower door test result?
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/news/2025/06...

24.06.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jim and Felix made the cut for the trailer...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Fj...

20.06.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Hiring alert! Energy Teaching Coordinator, ZERO Institute | Oxford Zero Institute

JOB ALERT: The Oxford ZERO Institute is looking for an Energy Teaching Coordinator. This is an exciting new role, developing their strategic portfolio of education initiatives. Applications will close on 7th July 2025. zero.ox.ac.uk/hiring-alert...

17.06.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Wonder Of Trees WEB Master 4k h264 mp4
YouTube video by Future of UK Treescapes The Wonder Of Trees WEB Master 4k h264 mp4

Save the date - 'The Wonder of Treescapes' premieres on YouTube at 6pm on 10th July. Keep an eye out for Jim & Felix...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzci...

17.06.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
An image showing black mould or mildew on a white ceiling (Credit: Olena Shmahalo on Unsplash)

An image showing black mould or mildew on a white ceiling (Credit: Olena Shmahalo on Unsplash)

๐Ÿ’กGulala Aziz, a #PhD student in @leeds-lsi.bsky.social has developed a damp predictive tool using machine learning with #AI to predict which homes are at risk of developing damp and mould.

๐Ÿ”— bit.ly/3Z9Ezkz
The research can help housing providers to take swift effective action.

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

03.06.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
LinkedIn This link will take you to a page thatโ€™s not on LinkedIn

๐Ÿ“ข Professor David Glew will be speaking with Anna Hollyman at the ๐Œ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ญ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐„๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง โ€“ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐‘๐ž๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ ๐„๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ ๐„๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง webinar on ๐–๐ž๐๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ’๐ญ๐ก ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐ž.

More details here ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.linkedin.com/posts/leeds-...

29.05.2025 10:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Quantifying inter-dwelling air exchanges during fan pressurisation tests | Buildings & Cities

20 years since our first co-pressurisation tests at Stamford Brook, we finally get around to publishing something on it...
journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10....

28.05.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Introducing our 2nd NHSF Conference session...

๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿฆ Towards Sustainable Historic Buildings
โ—พ๏ธDr Moses Jenkins, Historic Environment Scotland - Site-based research in retrofit.
โ—พ๏ธProf David Glew, Director of the @leeds-lsi.bsky.social
+ Panel discussion

More info & register here: buff.ly/5QbIK61

21.05.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Make sure to register to hear Leeds Sustainability Institute's Professor David Glew deliver a keynote during the 'Towards sustainable historic buildings' session ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ›๏ธ

20.05.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Professor David Glew

Professor David Glew

๐Ÿ“ขNew on our blog, Professor David Glew shares how our @leeds-lsi.bsky.social is producing cutting-edge #research that is helping society to achieve the UNโ€™s Sustainable Development Goals.

๐Ÿ”— bit.ly/3S2CMd9

#AcademicSky #SDGs

15.05.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Urban Tree Festival The next Urban Tree Festival will be 10-18 May 2025. Help us make this the best one yet!

Some interesting stuff going on in and around Leeds next week...
www.urbantreefestival.org

08.05.2025 12:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Up to 8 competitive fee-waivers bursaries are on offer for our Professional Doctorate Programmes commencing October 2025. For more details, including how to apply, follow the link below.
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/the-graduate-school/beec/fee-waiver-bursaries/

02.05.2025 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Houses too.
We get the sealing guys in to make the house airtight enough for MVHR, install the system, then need to get the sealing guys back.
From www.gov.uk/government/publications/demonstration-of-energy-efficiency-potential-deep

23.04.2025 09:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here we are in a well ventilated space, being trained how to take air samples to test for microbial contamination in homes.

03.04.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Deterioration of retrofit insulation performance This report summarises current understanding of the impact of retrofit degradation over time.

If you're interested in how retrofitted insulation performs over time, we carried out a detailed literature review and spoke to expert stakeholders. DESNZ have now published the report...
www.gov.uk/government/p...

01.04.2025 10:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The LSI team researching urban treescapes near the office...
Phrases like "not out of the woods yet" and "on the rocks" also spring to mind.

31.03.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And on to the next one...

13.02.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fun day out for Adam, Dom & Felix, co-pressurisation testing at NeRV.

13.02.2025 12:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
One of the Citu test cells

One of the Citu test cells

LBU researchers inside one of the test cells.

LBU researchers inside one of the test cells.

One of the Citu test cells

One of the Citu test cells

๐Ÿ  Our @leeds-lsi.bsky.social has launched 2 new test cells to baseline the real-world thermal performance of UK homes and further advance the LSI's innovation in #energy efficiency testing.

๐Ÿ”— bit.ly/418DpHu

The test cells are based at Citu in Leeds.

#LBUResearch #AcademicSky

11.02.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Citu and LSI tackle real-world energy efficiency testing - Place Yorkshire With the Future Homes Standard coming into effect in 2025, developers will be required to test and verify the thermal performance of new homes after construction, ensuring they perform as designed.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the launch of our test cells yesterday.
www.placeyorkshire.co.uk/citu-and-lsi...

07.02.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Getting ready for the guests to arrive for the launch of our new test cells.

06.02.2025 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Keep Your Home Warmer And Healthier

Keep Your Home Warmer And Healthier

With the weather warming up, keep your home warmer and healthier!

As temperatures rise, itโ€™s the perfect time to tackle damp and condensation in your home!

www.groundwork.org.uk/getenergyhelp/

04.02.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund โ€“ launching soon โ€“ Y-PERN

y-pern.org.uk/communities-...

04.02.2025 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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