Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Energy efficiency directives and policy aspirations in retrofit interventions
Chapter 3. Methods and Tools
Chapter 4. The significance of occupancy patterns and household habitual adaptive behaviour on home energy performance
Chapter 5. A field study investigation to assess on households thermal discomfort and overheating risk of buildings
Chapter 6. A field study investigation on the regression forecasting neutral adaptive thermal comfort
Chapter 7. A Developing a novel methodology to calibrate building energy performance of social housing estates Building diagnostics, energy audit and energy forecasting
Chapter 8. A novel methodological framework for building optimization of social housing estate Policy design and life cycle cost impact analysis of retrofit strategies
Chapter 9. Developing an evidence-based energy policy framework to asset robust energy performance evaluation and certification schemes
Chapter 10. Conclusions and future recommendations.