Professor of Systems in the Built Environment and Architecture LSBU Innovation, Connecting Business + Academia ,Future Energy & Heat. Views my own.
London UK
Joined June 2011
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Andy Ford retweeted
My latest for @BloombergNEF: The Next Half-Trillion-Dollar Market - Electrification of Heat. Following on the heels of renewables and electric vehicles, it's heat pumps and industrial heating where the really big numbers are going to be invested next.
bloom.bg/3nc9jl9
Andy Ford retweeted
Coming soon - the LETI Operational Energy Modelling Guide - written by me (and many others)!
Sign up for the launch webinar on 18th April here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/leti-whol…
@LETI_UK #LETI_OMG
Andy Ford retweeted
Inaugural lecture "The End of Gas."
In this public lecture, I will focus on how we became dependent on gas, why it's so hard to break the habit, & what we can do to help.
Attend FREE here: ow.ly/Gzut50MUhfb
@LSBU_BEA @RIBA @CIBSE @CITB_UK @theCCCuk @NetZeroUK @BSRIALtd
Andy Ford retweeted
A depressing but important read on the combination of the political/fossil fuel industry revolving door and all party parliamentary groups being funded by fossil fuel interests - to promote hydrogen.
Thanks to @openDemocracy for asking me to comment.
opendemocracy.net/en/blue-hy…
Andy Ford retweeted
This week @JacobAinscough interviewed @ChiefExecCCC to find out about the Committee’s recent experiments with deliberative research. Check it out on fdsd.org/2022-interview-chri…
Andy Ford retweeted
Completed in 1997, the Archaeolink Visitor Centre In Aberdeenshire was a radically different kind ... cullinanstudio.com/news-upda…
Just for clarity for American Furnaces read Boilers in UK
"We’re moving forward together to address the holistic transition to cleaner buildings.” - @RockyMtnInst's @llouisprescott on California's impending vote to end the sale of polluting furnaces and water heaters by 2030. @KPBSErik bit.ly/3S6VoHg @SPUR_Urbanist @SierraClub
I have just listened to the #BBC4 about #SylviaAnderson the creative force behind #Thunderbirds and all the most memorable puppet series from my youth. Needs correcting I never knew this woman was so significant. Put this right #ITV Long live Lady Penelope
Andy Ford retweeted
One the one hand we have Richard Tice, leave campaigner and general grifter, and on the other hand we have Michael Grubb, a professor of energy and climate change at the UCL. Hmm - decisions, decisions.
ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jan/opin…
Andy Ford retweeted
BOOKING NOW:
@LSBU's 5th Climate Emergency Event
Costing the Earth:
Embodied Carbon & the Race to Net Zero
Online webinar Thur 14 OCT 3-5 BST
eventbrite.co.uk/e/170420155…
FREE tickets. Stellar line up
Opening @Simonsturgis
Keynote @dave_cheshire
+@UKGBC + more. Do join us!
Andy Ford retweeted
Insulating homes pays back 4x quicker in the UK from October 2022 compared to 1 year ago.
This is because gas prices are skyrocketing and gas is used for heating in ~85% of UK homes.
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Andy Ford retweeted
We've some big plans @theCCCuk so we need new skills and people.
We're integrating our mitigation and adaptation analysis in crucial areas - and coordinating an ambitious new assessment of climate risks.
These roles are all open to external candidates
theccc.org.uk/about/careers/
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Andy Ford retweeted
Two things I want to shoot into the 🌞 today (apart from the usual):
1. Ppl defending their indefensible carbon-intensive lifestyles as "convenient" or "inevitable" or "comfortable." It's like listening to alcoholics or heroin addicts, in many ways. Listen up. Perhaps ...
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Andy Ford retweeted
BREAKING: Just Stop Oil activists have glued themselves to Leonardo de Vinci's The Last Supper at the Royal Academy. More follows...
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is not the original "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci, it is a copy attributed to a pupil of Da Vinci named Giampietrino according to the Royal Academy's website:
royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/wo…
Andy Ford retweeted
MAJOR POWER MARKET REFORM KLAXON!!!
And a thread from me on the implications. /1
thetimes.co.uk/article/energ…
Andy Ford retweeted
Petition: Allow cars converted to electric propulsion to be reclassified as zero emissions petition.parliament.uk/petit… #climate #energy #AirPollution
Andy Ford retweeted
The UK's Energy Security Strategy is out.
Increased targets for pretty much everything except for insulating the UK's leaky housing stock - huge missed opportunity.
gov.uk/government/news/major…
Andy Ford retweeted
Brilliant to see this getting more publicity. Pls retweet.
@KwasiKwarteng @ChiefExecCCC @LauraMaxwell16 @KirstyWark @g__j
Also indicates to homeowner how feasible a heat pump switch would be by showing lower flow temps viable. Radiators don’t always need to peel skin😜
On @BBCr4today #youandyours now:
What you are doing to be a greener consumer?
The @ipcc report released yesterday is a 'code red for humanity'
Act now to avoid a catastrophe
15 million homes can cut emissions by 6-8% with a lower boiler temperature
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youtu.be/T022zY9I__0
New solar canopy for agrivoltaics from France pv-magazine.com/2022/04/04/n…
Andy Ford retweeted
We @CommerciaLtd are looking for a new Engineer ! Are you looking for a new opportunity with a rapidly growing Company.
Would you like to work with Paul and the team? Improve yourself as an engineer if so please DM us ! Driving license and NVQs are essential. London area
