Cool Living
ed. Hot Dry
TECHNICAL
Project Overview
This work is broken up into two parts;
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The COMMUNITY EDITION
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THE TECHNICAL EDITION
This image shows how the structure of the two documents has come together.
The COMMUNITY EDITION is the blue book and is for community members who are sick of hot houses, or would like to talk to housing about house upgrades or apply for grant funding.
The content frames the fundamentals of the problems faced in community housing, and gives tools to understand how it is best to use houses in summer, prioritised for improved cooling in houses and a survey tool to audit all houses.
The TECHNICAL EDITION is the red book and is for built environment professionals and Housing organisations who may be planning house upgrades or carrying out proposals for grant funding and research.
The content frames the fundamentals of the problems faced in community housing, but operates on the assumptions that the professional has experience in the realities of community living.
This is a suite of tools to inform prioritised upgrades to community housing to improve thermal comfort in summer. It is expected the Community Edition will be used by the professionals to carry out tenant education and community consultation.