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Richard Fitton, Professor of Building Performance at Energy House Labs has been appointed to the Committee of Fuel Poverty thanks to his research looking at ways homes can be made more energy efficient.

The Committee on Fuel Poverty is an Expert Advisory Committee which advises on the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing fuel poverty, encourages greater co-ordination across the organisations working to reduce fuel poverty, and monitoring the government’s progress on its Fuel Poverty Strategy. The Committee also conducts annual research, with the current project focusing on the lived experience of fuel poor homes which have a heat pump.

Professor Fitton is Technical Director of the Energy House 2.0 project, a world-leading building physics test laboratory at the ��������. He said: “I am pleased to have been appointed to the Fuel Poverty Committee. This role provides an important opportunity to contribute independent technical expertise on building performance, retrofit delivery and energy efficiency, ensuring that policy decisions are grounded in robust evidence and real-world data. 

“I look forward to supporting the Committee’s work in addressing fuel poverty through effective, high-quality improvements to the performance of UK homes.”

Professor Fitton also leads an international task group developing standards for energy performance assessment. He is Chair of the British Standard for Retrofit Assessment and serves on the SAP Scientific Integrity Group at BRE, which oversees the UK’s domestic energy model. He is also a panel member of the RICS Professional Group for residential property and leads an International Energy Agency Annex on the use of smart meter data to provide energy efficiency metrics in dwellings.