Improving Comfort, Enhancing Lives
Investigating the impacts of climate change on housing performance and developing evidence-based retrofit strategies that transform the lives of Egypt's most vulnerable communities.
Comprehensive retrofit strategies to enhance thermal comfort, energy efficiency, and public health in low-income housing across Egypt's changing climate landscape.
Evidence-based indoor environment solutions
Reducing consumption in communities
Rigorous field studies & data collection
Improving well-being of residents
Project Partners & Collaborators
Four interconnected pillars that guide every phase of the CRLiH programme
Assessing how rising temperatures affect housing performance and occupant health in low-income settlements.
Designing evidence-based, cost-effective interventions that improve thermal comfort and cut energy use.
Quantifying the link between indoor thermal conditions and health outcomes across vulnerable communities.
Translating findings into actionable guidelines for government bodies and housing authorities in Egypt.
Egypt's extreme summer heat creates hazardous indoor conditions in poorly insulated low-income dwellings. CRLiH quantifies these risks and designs targeted retrofits.
Affordable, practical improvements reduce households' energy burden while delivering measurable comfort gains — a double dividend for residents and the climate.
Every finding is translated into policy briefs and technical guidelines — ensuring research reaches the decision-makers who can scale impact nationally.
Discover all sections of the CRLiH research project — from our scientific team to field activities and media gallery.