{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Zero Ambitions Podcast","title":"A new way to measure performance, negative energy use, and learning from disaster zones, with Kate Crawford (KLH Sustainability)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4628,"description":"Kate Crawford is a building nerd who is obsessed with measuring performance. She's currently, Technical Director at KLH Sustainability, a multidisciplinary consultancy working in the built environment.\nKate has a very interesting background in terms of her experience and she's now working on a very fascinating project in which she's researching and developing a \"Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Energy Rating (SMETER)\" system that uses a new approach to measuring building performance and a different kind of metric for assessing it.\nThe result has been something that they call \"the snug factor\", which is the heat-transfer coefficient of the building (Kate explains it all in the episode). The way they generate their heat-transfer coefficient has led to incredibly accurate estimations for energy use in a home. \nNotes from the show\nKate Crawford on LinkedIn\nKLH Sustainability's website\nThe research Jeff mentions about low pressure showers using more water\nReal performance and the HEM\nReal performance and the SAP\nKate's little (and excellent) graphic novel on her experience of aid work\n\n\n**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**\nWe don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs.\nFollow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page\nJeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency; Everything is User Experience\nSubscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too)\nCheck Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront\nJoin ACAN\nJoin the AECB \nJoin the IGBC\nCheck out Her Own Space, the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way)\n\n**END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/imp-PGTK0p-Yir06lCKyRzcHa9UWxL7NtYiXEdkSiXw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2NDY5LzE2OTYy/ODc4ODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}