{"id":1336,"date":"2015-10-13T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2017-01-16T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:09:32","slug":"ksa-case-researchers-speak-at-31st-passive-and-low-energy-architecture-conference-in-bologna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2015\/10\/13\/ksa-case-researchers-speak-at-31st-passive-and-low-energy-architecture-conference-in-bologna\/","title":{"rendered":"KSA CASE Researchers speak at 31st Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference in Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KSA had the largest international research presence at the 31st Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference in Bologna, Italy on 9-11 September 2015. Attended by over 300 delegates from all over the world, six researchers from KSA\u2019s Centre for Architecture and the Sustainable Environment \u00a0(CASE) delivered research papers on a range of topics:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Adaji<\/strong><br \/>\nAn investigation into thermal comfort in residential buildings in the hot humid climate of Sub-Saharan Africa: a field study in Abuja-Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith Bothwell<\/strong><br \/>\nPines Calyx earth tube performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christina Chatzipoulka<\/strong><br \/>\nComparing the solar performance of urban forms in London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carolina Vasilikou<\/strong><br \/>\nThermal perception of pedestrians moving in interconnected urban spaces: adaptive thermal comfort in irregular spatial sequences in Rome and London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonidas Tsichritzis<\/strong><br \/>\nThe glazing of balconies as a retrofitting solution for reducing the heating load of the adjacent room in Athens. [Recently joined CASE from the Architectural Association, London]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Watkins<\/strong><br \/>\nThe performance of natural ventilation in a dance studio \u2013 lessons from tracer gas measurements and control integration.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please see:<br \/>\nPLEA 2015 conference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plea2015.it\">www.plea2015.it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KSA had the largest international research presence at the 31st Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference in Bologna, Italy on 9-11 September 2015. Attended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2015\/10\/13\/ksa-case-researchers-speak-at-31st-passive-and-low-energy-architecture-conference-in-bologna\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158264],"tags":[158321,120529,158358,158393,158395,158396,158394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}