Dr Linda Toledo
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Architecture
Personal statement
I am a Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellow in Healthy Buildings and a lecturer in the Department of Architecture. I was trained as an architect and after gaining professional experience in Italy and Belgium, I pursued a Master's in Sustainable Design and obtained a PhD in Sustainable Buildings.
My research looks at the risks of overheating and poor indoor air quality in low-energy housing (new build and renovated) and the role of adaptive comfort and ventilation in this. My research covers different themes of the sustainable built environment (i.e. thermal comfort, low-energy design, urban regeneration and climate change adaptation), with research experiences in different countries (Italy, the UK, Brazil and Perú).
I have recently been awarded a Seal of Excellence Fellowship for the project ADAPTIVE HOUSING at EURAC Research in Bolzano (Italy), where I am using climate change projections to test the vulnerability and resilience of low-energy homes in the context of rising temperatures.
Publications
- Results from air quality monitoring and surveys in UK residences
- Rastogi Parag, Sobek Olivia Nile, Toledo Linda, Fleck Rowanne, Jephson Graeme, Sharpe Tim
- 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference ASHRAE Transactions Vol 129, pp. 355-365 (2023)
- Research to identify if changes to guidance in standard 3.14 ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality
- Toledo Linda, Sharpe Tim, McGill Grainne, Howieson Stirling, McElroy Lori Barbara, Tuohy Paul Gerard, McQuillan Jonathan
- (2023)
- Photovoltaic technologies in historic buildings and protected areas : comprehensive legislative framework in Italy and Switzerland
- Lucchi Elena, Dall'Orto Isabella, Peluchetti Alessia, Toledo Linda, Pelle Martina, López Cristina Polo, Guazzi Giulia
- Energy Policy Vol 161 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112772
- MOOC- Deep renovation for energy efficient residential buildings
- Toledo Linda, Lollini Roberto
- (2021)
- Risks of overheating in highly insulated English houses : an investigation into the design process, comfort performance and occupant behaviour.
- Toledo Linda
- (2018)
- Development of the ASHRAE global thermal comfort database II
- Ličina Veronika Földváry, Cheung Toby, Zhang Hui, de Dear Richard, Parkinson Thomas, Arens Edward, Chun Chungyoon, Schiavon Stefano, Toledo Linda
- Building and Environment, Vol 142, pp. 502-512 (2018)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.06.022
Projects
- ADAPTIVE HOUSING: Solutions for Adaptive and Resilient Low-Energy Housing under Climate Change Scenarios
- Toledo, Linda (Principal Investigator)
- The overarching aim of ADAPTIVE HOUSING is to improve the design of low-energy housing to sustainably cope with the overheating associated with ongoing climate change, in particular, to predicted increase in temperature, by thus refraining from exposing occupants to heat stress and/or from increasing the carbon emissions associated with a greater energy demand for cooling.
ADAPTIVE HOUSING will investigate the role of adaptive behaviour in the process of securing comfort in low-energy homes in the context of a global increase in temperatures. Its main objectives consist of (a) assessing the potential impact of overheating in low-energy housing and (b) developing guidelines for the design and operation of adaptive and resilient low-energy housing.
Embracing uncertainty and a non-deterministic approach to research, ADAPTIVE HOUSING will develop a knowledge map integrating emerging literature on adaptive occupant behaviour and interaction between occupants and building systems with emerging knowledge on climate change's impact on buildings. This will create the framework to test a case study on current and future performance. - 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Research to identify if changes to guidance in standard 3.14 ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality
- Howieson, Stirling (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Principal Investigator)
- The 2015 regulations required all new dwellings to have CO2 monitors installed to alert the occupants to poor indoor air quality that would encourage them to open windows and provide purge ventilation.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2023
- Measure, inform, nudge: an integrated, human-centric air quality measurement and visualisation system
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Researcher)
- SBRI Phase 2 Project - follow on from RKES 201683
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Research to identify if changes to guidance in Standard 3.14 Ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Howieson, Stirling (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Researcher)
- Scottish Governement Tender response (consultancyu services)
- 18-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Linda
Toledo
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Architecture
Email: linda.toledo@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted