Janice Foster
Janice Foster
- Researcher
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8693-440X- Professional Title
- CEng MCIBSE
- Job Title
- Researcher
- School or Academic Area
- Mackintosh School of Architecture
- J.Foster@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6RQ
Biography
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.
Research Interests
Building Performance Evaluation, ventilation, indoor environmental quality, source control, energy efficiency, sustainable buildings.
Teaching
Post Graduate Elective in Energy, Comfort and Health in Buildings.
Latest Additions
- Foster, Janice A. and Musau, Filbert (2025) Indoor Environmental Quality in an Occupied Whole Life Straw Bale House in England, UK. Journal of Building Design and Environment. ISSN Print ISSN 2811-0730; Online ISSN 2811-0749
- Foster, Janice A. (2024) Retrofit. RIAS Quarterly. ISSN 2044-1851
- Foster, Janice and Menon, Rosalie (2024) 30 Years of MEARU Exhibition. Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 13 - 31 January 2024
- Foster, Janice A and Poston, Anna (2024) Occupant experience of domestic kitchen environments in low-energy social and affordable housing in Scotland. Building Research & Information, 52 (7). pp. 799-816. ISSN 0961-3218
- Foster, Janice A and Poston, Anna (2023) Domestic energy consumption: Temporal unregulated electrical energy consumption in kitchens in Scottish affordable and social housing. Energy Efficiency, 16. Art 62. ISSN Print: 1570-646X Electronic: 1570-6478
- Foster, Janice (2022) Domestic Ventilation and Energy. RIAS Quarterly (52). pp. 28-29. ISSN 2044-1851
- Foster, Janice, Poston, Anna and Foster, Samuel (2019) Building Performance Evaluation – A design approach for refurbishment of a small traditional building in Scotland. Restoration of Buildings and Monuments, 23 (2). pp. 53-66. ISSN 1864-7251
- Foster, Janice (2018) Building Performance Evaluation: Lessons from studies of 26 Scottish low-energy homes. Project Report. MEARU: The Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit.
- Menon, Rosalie and Foster, Janice (2017) 'Ventilate Right’ – Methods of Effective Communication to New Residents. In: Proceedings of 33rd PLEA International Conference: Design to Thrive, Edinburgh, 2-5 July 2017. NCEUB, pp. 503-510. ISBN 9780992895754
- Morgan, C., Foster, J.A, Poston, A. and Sharpe, T.R. (2016) Overheating in Scotland: contributing factors in occupied homes. Building Research & Information, 45 (1-2). pp. 143-156. ISSN 0961-3218
