EVALOC is an exciting, novel and collaborative three-year Research Councils UK funded research project which brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from building science and social science disciplines based in the Low Carbon Building Group of Oxford Brookes University and the Environmental Change Institute of University of Oxford. EVALOC has been awarded funding of £1.14 million (Grant reference: RES-628-25-0012) from RCUK/ESRC as part of the Energy and Communities programme.

The project seeks to assess, explain and communicate the changes in energy use due to community activities within six selected case study projects under the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) Low Carbon Communities Challenge (LCCC) initiative, a government-supported initiative to transform the way communities use and produce energy, and build new ways of supporting more sustainable living. These low carbon community projects are evaluated in terms of their IMPACTS on changing individual, household and community behaviours, EFFECTIVENESS on achieving real-savings in energy use CO2 emissions and SUCCESS in bringing about sustained and systemic change.