WSEPEE-2025

Habib is an architect with nearly a decade of experience in projects ranging from private housing to large-scale urban redevelopment. Habib explores the intersections between housing, energy efficiency, and social change. His work focuses on the complex challenges of retrofitting homes across tenures — with a particular emphasis on owner-occupiers, where design, policy, and personal agency meet. During his PhD at Northumbria University, he examined how architects can act as educators to accelerate energy upgrades in owner-occupied homes, integrating social practice theory, learning concepts, and hands-on design solutions. Currently, he works as a Research Associate at the Welsh School of Architecture, collaborating with the Switch Net Zero Wales initiative on a UKRI-PBIAA funded project. The research project explores policy implications for decarbonising Wales and the opportunities and challenges of owner-occupied retrofit.