Sustainable Housing from a European Perspective

About

Housing is of key importance for societies. It drives the economy and is a key issue for sustainable urban and regional development in growing as well as declining areas. The energy crisis and energy transition have a huge impact on human behavior relating to energy, housing, and the built environment.

The 7th SHEP Summer School will give insight into the European perspective on the development of a sustainable housing stock and speeding up energy transition goals, by presenting European and national goals, policies, regulations, assessment tools, process innovations, behavioural, institutional and management approaches. It will shed light on emerging economies and institutions in a similar context.

Course leader

Queena K. Qian is Associate Professor at the Department of Management in the Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. She is also the recipient of the Delft Technology Fellowship (2014, The Netherlands), Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Fellowship (2013, Australia), and Fulbright scholarship (2010, USA). Her research interests are green building promotion, building energy efficiency and energy retrofits, age-friendly urban development, institutional and market barriers, incentives & nudges etc, using transaction costs and behavioural economics theory and approach. She has published a number of internationally referred journal papers on her fields of interests, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Target group

Final year Bachelor students, Master students, PhD candidates and professionals with background knowledge and research interests on sustainable housing and the built environment.

Course aim

This course focuses on sustainable housing development and deals with environmental as well as economic and social sustainability. How do housing markets work and how do governments intervene? How can the affordability, quality, and energy efficiency of the housing stock be improved? The course will give insight into the European perspective on the development of sustainable housing stock, and speeding up energy transition goals, by presenting European and national goals, policies, regulations, assessment tools, process innovations, behavioral, institutional and management approaches. It will shed light on emerging economies and institutions in a similar context.

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