The Buildings Team at the UCL Energy Institute has an international reputation for original, high-quality research. Our work can be divided into 4 broad topics: • domestic buildings • non-domestic buildings • smart energy (aka demand-side management) • district-level heating We look at these through a range of different lenses: • energy epidemiology concerns the pulling-together of data sets to gain fresh insights into the energy consumption across the entire built environment • building physics (or physical monitoring) allows us to interpret the epidemiology • socio-technical systems, which combine monitoring and data with the social sciences, look at how behaviour affects energy consumption The Building Team has initiated the discussion among policy-making and research communities about the necessity of a comprehensive data framework for buildings and energy use. And with Loughborough University, we’ve set up a £5.8 million EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand Reduction in the Built Environment.