1st Edition

Sustainable Building Conservation Theory and Practice of Responsive Design in the Heritage Environment

By Oriel Prizeman Copyright 2019
    176 Pages
    by RIBA Publishing

    This book incorporates UK and international case studies and essays to identify the overlaps in the interests of energy and building conservation.

    The relevance and adjustments of qualitative and quantitative frames of reference are introduced, alongside the various expertise of the contributors: architects, designers, conservation consultants and academics. The second part of the book showcases sustainable domestic and non-domestic heritage projects, translating the preceding research into information that practitioners can use in their everyday work.

    The book will appeal to architecture students, newly qualified professionals and conservation architects and will enhance readers’ ambitions, so that they feel equipped and inspired to work with old buildings sensitively, creatively and sustainably.

    Part 1: Evaluations- (Theories) 

    1. The English Climate and Enduring Principles of Environmental Design

    Dean Hawkes 

    2. The Energy Context of Domestic Traditional Buildings for the UK

     Simon Lannon 

    3. Retrofitting Heritage Buildings

    Peter Cox 

    4. Containing the Questions

    Douglas Kent 

    Part 2: Responses- Practices 

    5. An Integrated Approach To Heritage And Sustainability: Four Academic Building Projects in the USA

    Tom Hotaling  

    6. New Court Trinity College Cambridge: Continuing a legacy of inhabitation

    Oliver Smith 

    7. Four Case Studies Demonstrating the Impacts of Energy Conservation in Traditional Domestic Buildings

    Oriel Prizeman 

    8. Sustaining Heating in Places of Worship: Physical, Social, Organizational and Commercial Factors as Determinants of Strategic Decision Making and Practical Outcomes

    Bruce Induni 

    Part 3: Conclusions  Potential for Further Research

    Oriel Prizeman

    Biography

    Oriel Prizeman is a RIBA Accredited Conservation Architect trained at Cambridge and the Architectural Association. She ran her own practice focusing on work to listed houses in the Cambridge area from 1996-2012 and has established a new MSc in Sustainable Building Conservation at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff in September 2013.

    "The information is easily accessible; the section on daub, for example, describes its preparation, including merits of hay and straw, and the different lengths to which each should be chopped. The method given for temporary support of a leaning cob wall is an example of the practical advice found throughout."

    Simon Malam, Donald Insall Associates, Historic England