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India Golding

PhD Student
UCL
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India is an engineer who has a background in Architectural Environment Engineering and holds an MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering from UCL. She has previous experience working as an Energy and Sustainability Engineer within the built environment for a wide range of projects. Throughout her career, she has looked at sustainability from a broad perspective from health and wellbeing to whole life carbon and energy efficiency with a focus on UK policy.
The Crow and the Pitcher – Towards Decarbonisation and Energy Resilience of the Museum Sector

Museums are a crucial component of society, with a mandate that balances education and access with management of cultural assets. Further, museum buildings tend to hold heritage value and some form of protection. This creates a challenging situation: one in which buildings are difficult to retrofit to improve energy efficiency and have stringent, bespoke demands on performance. Utilising the V&A Museum as a case study, her PhD aims to bring energy engineering and heritage science together to explore how resilient museum buildings are in the face of future climate and energy scenarios in the context of decarbonisation. This will be done whilst determining the opportunities for reducing energy demand through retrofit, improving building services and resilience, and delivering clean energy through on and off-site renewable technologies using building simulation, energy performance analysis and stakeholder engagement .