Event Reports

Are Millennials Really the Go-Nowhere Generation? Understanding the Mobility Patterns of Young Americans. Noreen McDonald

News reports and academic articles contend that Millennials (those born in the last two decades of the 20th century) are different from earlier generations in their consumption and travel patterns. This study investigates the travel behavior of young American adults and compares the behavior of Millennials with those of previous generations using data from the 1995, 2001, and 2009 National…

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Why don’t buildings behave the way we want them to? Rick Diamond

“Behave” is a funny word to refer to a building—in what way do buildings behave? For the particular question posed by the title, the reference is to “energy performance” and in this specific instance, the issue of why does the measured energy consumption of the building vary from the predicted energy consumption? Building modelers often say that they lack sufficient information…

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The prospective of forgotten technology. Kris de Decker

The potential of past technologies is often overlooked when it comes to designing a sustainable technology. If obsolete technology is brought to our attention, it is mostly with the intention to make fun of it. But the history of technology hides many inventive technologies that could be very useful today and in the future. Many of them have been forgotten. Often, interesting possibilities…

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Summer School: Peaks, Sites and Cycles, 14-16 July 2015

The DEMAND Summer School 2015 focused on Peaks, Sites and Cycles; the temporal and spatial dynamics of energy and mobility demand. These are critical issues in the social sciences, and for practical efforts to reduce and manage peak loads in energy and mobility. Participants, along with researchers and academics from the DEMAND Centre explored a variety of concepts and approaches for studying…

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Energy-related economic stress at the interface between transport poverty, fuel poverty and residential location, 20 May 2015

The two-day international workshop “Energy-related economic stress at the interface between transport poverty, fuel poverty and residential location” was held at the University of Leeds on May 20th-21st. It was organised as part of the EPSRC-funded (t)ERES  research project, which is linked to the DEMAND Centre. 41 participants from four countries took part in the workshop over the two…

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