Dr Linda Toledo
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Architecture
Personal statement
I am a Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellow in Healthy Buildings and a lecturer in the Department of Architecture. I was trained as an architect and after gaining professional experience in Italy and Belgium, I pursued a Master's in Sustainable Design and obtained a PhD in Sustainable Buildings.
My research looks at the risks of overheating and poor indoor air quality in low-energy housing (new build and renovated) and the role of adaptive comfort and ventilation in this. My research covers different themes of the sustainable built environment (i.e. thermal comfort, low-energy design, urban regeneration and climate change adaptation), with research experiences in different countries (Italy, the UK, Brazil and Perú).
I have recently been awarded a Seal of Excellence Fellowship for the project ADAPTIVE HOUSING at EURAC Research in Bolzano (Italy), where I am using climate change projections to test the vulnerability and resilience of low-energy homes in the context of rising temperatures.
Publications
- Impact of indoor environmental quality on health and wellbeing in a warming climate
- Al-Khatri Hanan, González Lezcano Roberto Alonso, Toledo Linda, Moreno-Rangel Alejandro
- Building Research and Information Vol 53, pp. 1-2 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2025.2460001
- Case study investigation of overheating in low-energy homes : insights from a post-occupancy evaluation in England
- Toledo Linda, Wright Andrew, Cropper Paul
- Building Research and Information Vol 53, pp. 139-164 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2024.2417274
- Ventilation study in contemporary Scottish homes
- Toledo Linda, McGill Grainne, Sharpe Tim
- International Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate
(2024) - Adaptive housing : solutions for adaptive and resilient low-energy housing under climate change scenarios
- Toledo L
- RETURN Dissemination Workshop ; Turin ; 1.2.2024 - 2.2.2024 RETURN Dissemination Workshop, pp. 216-217 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10598007
- Results from air quality monitoring and surveys in UK residences
- Rastogi Parag, Sobek Olivia Nile, Toledo Linda, Fleck Rowanne, Jephson Graeme, Sharpe Tim
- 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference ASHRAE Transactions Vol 129, pp. 355-365 (2023)
- Research to identify if changes to guidance in standard 3.14 ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality
- Sharpe T, McGill G, Howieson S, Tuohy P, McElroy L, McQuillan J, Toledo Linda
- (2023)
Professional Activities
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Visiting researcher
- 3/6/2024
- Knowledge map to reduce risks of overheating on low-energy homes
- Organiser
- 15/1/2024
- PhD thesis examiner
- Examiner
- 7/11/2023
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Visiting researcher
- 30/6/2023
- Ventilation and indoor air quality in low-carbon homes
- Recipient
- 2/3/2023
- Understanding the role of ventilation
- Chair
- 10/8/2022
Projects
- ADAPTIVE HOUSING: Solutions for Adaptive and Resilient Low-Energy Housing under Climate Change Scenarios
- Toledo, Linda (Principal Investigator)
- Investigation the role of adaptive behaviour in the process of securing comfort in low-energy homes, in the context of a global increase in temperatures. For this project, I am embracing uncertainty and a non-deterministic approach to research to extend the boundaries of deterministic building simulations, by first developing a knowledge map that integrates literature on adaptive occupant behaviour and interaction between occupants and building systems with emerging knowledge on climate change's impact on buildings.
This Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship is financed by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Bozen through the Seal of Excellence funding scheme. - 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Research to identify if changes to guidance in standard 3.14 ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality
- Howieson, Stirling (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Principal Investigator)
- The 2015 regulations required all new dwellings to have CO2 monitors installed to alert the occupants to poor indoor air quality that would encourage them to open windows and provide purge ventilation.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2023
- Measure, inform, nudge: an integrated, human-centric air quality measurement and visualisation system
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Researcher)
- SBRI Phase 2 Project - follow on from RKES 201683
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Research to identify if changes to guidance in Standard 3.14 Ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Howieson, Stirling (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Researcher)
- Scottish Governement Tender response (consultancyu services)
- 18-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Linda
Toledo
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Architecture
Email: linda.toledo@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted