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Project Code [EPSPG/2024/774]
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Project title
Evaluating Evaluation in Housing: Understanding the current scope of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
Primary Funding Agency
Taighde �ireann-Research Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Lead Organisation
Technological University Dublin (TUD)
Lead Applicant
Not listed
Project Abstract
Processes of urban renewal and housing often preclude the meaningful participation of existing inhabitants and lead to disputes as urban centres are redeveloped to meet the pressures of Ireland�s housing crisis and climate mitigation strategies. Renovation, even when delivered with affordability and public interest in mind, is known to have a gentrifying effect on urban neighbourhoods.
The European Commission launched a Renovation Wave in 2020 to minimise operational and embodied carbon emissions in urban development and an Affordable Housing Initiative in 2021 to meet the increasing demands for socially affordable housing provision across EU States.
Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE), the sixth RIAI Work Stage, compares the proposed and in-use technical performance of a building design. To date, POE in Ireland is evident in academic studies only. If introduced in its current methodological form, POE will only consider technologically measurable data to inform the future of housing, an obvious gap is a social understanding of how people live in their homes and communities.
This research proposes to:
- Explore, through community engaged research using case study as an approach, the role of socially engaged architectural practice methodologies on the design of urban multi-unit housing renovation and densification projects;
- Crtically assess the current application and scope in Irish architectural practice of a) POE and b) socially engaged methodologies;
-To develop and test the potential impact of an expanded, socially oriented POE as an initiating framework for effective engagement and collaboration between communities and developers in urban retrofit and densification projects.
Grant Approved
�119,000.00
Research Hub
Climate Change
Research Theme
3. Climate Solutions, Transition Management and Opportunities
Initial Projected Completion Date
31/08/2028