{"id":674746,"date":"2026-07-05T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:46:08","slug":"researchers-find-ways-to-keep-homes-cooler-in-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674746\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find ways to keep homes cooler in summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bowls of ice water, open loft hatches and damp flannels are among the tricks many people have turned to in a bid to cool down at home in the summer heat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whether any of them work is up for debate, but researchers at Loughborough University have decided to take matters into their own hands to try and find a way to keep homes cool. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their research has involved two identical semi-detached houses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One remains unmodified and unshaded, while the other is fitted with an external shading system as well as heat sensors and &#8220;heat boxes&#8221; that simulate the heat produced by occupants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at the university, believes housing developers may need to incorporate external shading into new homes to help protect them from rising temperatures and future heatwaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Air conditioning is going to be a bit of a problem for us at the moment because the electricity grid is not able to cope with that amount of electricity demand,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowls of ice water, open loft hatches and damp flannels are among the tricks many people have turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}