Nottingham-based Allan Joyce Architects and Amrutha Kishor have been nominated for the RIBA Presidents Award for Research 2019 in the Design & Technical category.
Whilst completing her MA at the University of Nottingham, Amrutha Kishor, a Kerala-based practitioner, worked with Allan Joyce Architects to look at energy usage in their newly-built houses and how their performance differed between predicted and actual energy consumption.
The research project (Energy Performance Gaps in Residences in the UK) involved creating simple models of seven differing house designs completed by the practice between 1998 and 2018 and using actual data from residents’ energy bills showed how software-generated predictions did not match actual energy use.
The winners will be announced at this year’s President’s Medals ceremony at the RIBA in London today (Tuesday, December 3, 2019). The President’s Awards for Research celebrate the best research in the fields of architecture and the built environment and attract entries from around the globe.
