Janice Foster, CEng MCIBSE, is a chartered engineer and researcher specialising in building performance evaluation (BPE) at MEARU. With over a decade of research experience, she assesses energy consumption and indoor environmental quality in housing to determine whether buildings are healthy and affordable to heat. Drawing on her industry background, she utilises BPE as a design and diagnostic tool in new and existing buildings, evaluating design effectiveness and user-friendliness for performance benchmarking.
Her recent publications explore energy efficiency and ergonomics in kitchen environments in social housing and highlight ways that design can impact user experience and create unintended inequalities. Research findings are disseminated in academic journals and conferences, where insights on energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and occupant experience are presented using real-life examples. Janice actively engages in knowledge transfer between industry and academia, using her research and engineering experience to inspire architecture students in the Mackintosh School of Architecture.
Building Performance Evaluation, ventilation, indoor environmental quality, source control, energy efficiency, sustainable buildings.
Post Graduate Elective in Energy, Comfort and Health in Buildings.