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What are the most effective ways to assess the health impacts of buildings, and what does this mean for the oversight of the thermal environment, ventilation, noise etc?

Background

Focusing on decarbonising buildings, to consolidate evidence around the potential effects of net zero on the housing stock, housing supply and the housing market.

Next steps

The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

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