WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

DAY ONE

9.50 Introduction

10.00 Comfort paradigms & practices
Elizabeth Shove & Heather Chappells
Lancaster University

10.30 Urban Comforts
Koen Steemers, Cambridge University

11.00 Discussion

11.15 Coffee

11.30 'Coolth' Addiction: Historical insights from the USA
Marsha Ackermann, Eastern Michigan University

12.00 Constructing air-conditioned comforts in the UK
Tadj Oreszczyn, UCL

12.30 Discussion

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Responding to climate change: indoors and out
Views from thermal comfort researchers and practitioners

• Max Fordham (Max Fordham and Partners)
• Bill Gething (RIBA/Fielden Clegg Bradley)
• Andrew Keogh (Carrier UK)
• Adrian Leaman (Building Use Studies)
• Fergus Nicol (London Metropolitan University)

4.00 Future comforts
Discussion

5.00 End

DAY TWO

10.00 - 13.00 Indoor Environmental Change

Implications for research and policy

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Marsha Ackermann Eastern Michigan University

Heather Chappells Lancaster University

Sarah Darby Oxford University

Tina Fawcett UCL

Max Fordham Max Fordham & Partners

Bill Gething RIBA/Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects

Michael Holmes Arup Research & Development

Andrew Keogh Carrier UK

Adrian Leaman Building Use Studies

Sukumar Natarajan UMIST

Fergus Nicol London Metropolitan University

Tadj Oreszczyn UCL

Marylis Ramos Cambridge University

Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University

Peter Smith Sheffield Hallam University

Koen Steemers Cambridge University

Anja Ueberjahn-Tritta Oxford Brookes University

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