Publications

Co-designing equitable engagement-Home health assessment in healthcare practice in Scotland

Oliveira Sonja, Maclean Laura, McGill Grainne, Recart Carolina

DRS2026 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.796

Strathclyde RKEI Network Report : Collaborative Cultures

McGuire Darren, Batchelor Hannah, Reilly Grant, Moghadas Shayesteh, Jamieson Rachel, Trelli Phyllis Shirley, Kinnaird Yvonne, Vavouris Apostolos, Wilkinson Michael, Sampath Shabadini, Recart Carolina, Kinnear Andrew, Clark Ruaridh, Feng Jinglang, Luchinskaya Daria, Witte Kimia, Dobson Katherine J, Naghiyeva Turan, Gherghina Gabriela Loredana, Haroon-Tejumola QO, Buchanan Sarah, Brown Sarah, McGill Grainne, Sampath Shabadini, Colombo Samuele

(2026)

Quantifying energy efficiency potential in existing residential buildings : integrating heating practices into energy retrofit projects

Recart Carolina, Loche Iris, Kuijer Lenneke, Loonen Roel

Proceedings of the 15th REHVA HVAC World Congress - CLIMA 2025 15th REHVA HVAC World Congress, CLIMA 2025 Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Vol 788 LNCE, pp. 202-211 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-10546-2_19

Co-designing equitable engagement - home health assessment in healthcare practice in Scotland

Oliveira Sonja, MacLean Laura, McGill Grainne, Recart Carolina

Design Research Society Conference 2026 (2026)

Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of energy-saving measures tailored to residents' heating practices

Loche Iris, Recart Carolina, Kuijer Lenneke, Loonen Roel

Proceedings of the 15th REHVA HVAC World Congress - CLIMA 2025 15th REHVA HVAC World Congress, CLIMA 2025 Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Vol 763 LNCE, pp. 665-675 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06810-1_66

Integrating residents' heating practices into energy retrofit decision-making : a sufficiency-oriented approach

Loche Iris, Recart Carolina, Kuijer Lenneke, Loonen Roel

Journal of Building Engineering Vol 112 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2025.113781

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Professional Activities

UKIEG 2026: Retrofitting for Health: Advancing Indoor Environmental Quality in the UK Building Stock

Organiser

24/6/2026

UKIEG 2026: Retrofitting for Health: Advancing Indoor Environmental Quality in the UK Building Stock

Chair

24/6/2026

Beyond efficiency - integrating occupants into the building energy performance equation

Speaker

1/3/2026

Connecting Home, Health and Healthcare Pathways

Contributor

21/8/2025

Results in Engineering (Journal)

Peer reviewer

2025

Buildings and Cities (Journal)

Peer reviewer

2025

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Projects

Connect – Learn – Innovate – Lead Initiative: Creating Inclusive Research , knowledge and Innovative Cultures into ASHRAE Student Chapter

Recart, Carolina (Academic) Onyia, Stephanie Chisolum (Project Lead) Owolabi, Temiloluwa (CoI) Sirimanne, Praveen Manodya (CoI)

01-Jan-2026 - 14-Jan-2026

Modelling Innovative Use Scenarios for Future Domestic Comfort (MIESDOC)

Recart, Carolina (Principal Investigator) Kuijer, Lenneke (Principal Investigator) Loonen, Roel (Principal Investigator)

MIESDOC is an innovative research project aimed at exploring the potential of future scenarios involving unconventional residential energy retrofit approaches. MIESDOC is part of the Built Environment Heat Transition (BEHeaT) program initiated by the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES). Within the broader BEHeaT program, research is conducted into the development of new technologies, materials, and dynamic models towards facilitating the energy transition in the Netherlands.

01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025

Design HOPES (Healthy Organisations in a Place-based Ecosystem, Scotland)

Rodgers, Paul (Principal Investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Inns, Tom (Co-investigator) Recart, Carolina (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Wodehouse, Andrew (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)

Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. The more we ignore the climate emergency the bigger the impact will be on health and the need for care with poor environmental health contributing to major diseases, including cardiac problems, asthma and cancer. Many of the actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change and improve environmental sustainability also have positive health benefits; the Lancet Commission has described tackling climate change as "the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century". The challenges faced present an incredible opportunity to do things differently - to take a design-led approach in designing and making through high-reward demonstrator projects to help transform the health ecosystem. Through wider public engagement we aim to advance societal understanding of design's impact, and the opportunities, barriers, behaviour changes and tools needed to transition to a green approach. This research will unite a wide range of disciplines, research organisations, regional and local industry, and other public sector stakeholders, with policy-makers. The Design HOPES Green Transition Ecosystem (GTE) Hub will sustain a phased long-term investment to embed design-led innovation, circularity, sustainability and impact for the changing market, across product, service, strategy, policy and social drivers to evolve future design outcomes that matter to the people and planet. Our research is organised around seven core Thematic Workstreams, based on the NHS Scotland Climate Emergency and Sustainability Strategy (2022-2026). Design HOPES will be delivered and managed by interdisciplinary teams with significant expertise in design and making, co-creation, health and social care, with professionals with a sustainability remit, and businesses working in the design economy. Design HOPES encompasses a rich disciplinary mix of knowledge, skills, and expertise from a range of design disciplines (i.e., product, textile, interaction, games, architecture etc.) and other disciplines (computer science, health and wellbeing, geography, engineering, etc.) that will be focused on people and planet (including all living things), from the micro to macro, from root cause to hopeful vision, from the present to the future, and from the personal to the wider system. Design HOPES will design and make things and test them to see how they work, which will help more ideas and things emerge. The Hub will be an inclusive, safe, collaborative space that will bring in multiple and marginalised perspectives and view its projects as one part of a wider movement for transformational change whilst not overlooking existing assets and how we can re-use, nurture and develop these sustainably. Design HOPES aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence, promoting and embedding best practice through our collaborative design-led thinking and making approaches to build a more equitable and sustainable health and social care system. We will create new opportunities to support both existing services and new design-led health innovations in collaboration with NHS Boards across Scotland, the Scottish Government, patient and public representatives, health and social care partners, the third sector, academia and industry. Our seven Thematic Workstreams and associated projects will deliver a rich mix of tangible outcomes such as new innovative products, services, and policies (e.g., sustainable theatre consumables, packaging, clothing, waste services, etc.) during the funded period. With award-winning commercialisation and entrepreneurial support from the collaborating universities, we will also look to create new "green' enterprises and businesses. We will achieve this internationally recognised centre of excellence using design-led thinking and making to build a more equitable and sustainable health and social care system.

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028

FONDEF VIU, Research Project Stage 1 and 2: - A prefabricated cladding system tailored to enhance energy efficiency and environmental performance in residential structures across Chile

Recart, Carolina (Principal Investigator)

Principal Investigator. Funded by Chile’s National Agency for Innovation and Development to develop energy-efficient and ready to install cladding system.

03-Jan-2014 - 01-Jan-2017

CD-Ines, IT tool for statistical assessment of airtightness levels in existing buildings in Chile

Recart, Carolina (Principal Investigator)

Funded by the Research Center for the development of construction Technology from the University of Bio-Bio to develop an IT tool for statistical assessment of airtightness levels in existing buildings in Chile

03-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2016

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