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Factors affecting the take-up of home cooling adaptations
Research exploring what factors affect decisions to adopt home cooling measures.
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A variety of actions can be taken to address overheating risks in homes, from simple behaviours such as opening windows at night, to retrofitting buildings to improve insulation or heat reflection.
This research looks at the factors affecting take-up of these measures. It explores 4 main themes:
- awareness and take-up of home cooling measures
- willingness to adopt home cooling measures
- barriers and enablers to taking home cooling measures up
- communications on home cooling methods