Usable Buildings: Retrofit

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BORDASS, Bill, How Much Heat Do We Really Need?
PowerEx Live, Park Plaza Hotel, London, 6 October 2021 .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit Our Buildings, or Our Brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, 1 April 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
BORDASS, Bill, Beyond Space Heating and Cooling: Changing Mindsets in a Climate and Environmental Emergency
Climate at the Extremes Conference, Edinburgh, 6 September 2002 .
BORDASS, Bill, Can we be healthier and save energy without reconstructing our buildings?
PowerEx Live, London, 12 Dec 2024 .
BORDASS, Bill, Building Performance in Use, Professionalism and Proportionate Retrofit
Usable Buildings, Presentation to Centre for Alternative Technology, 11 December 2025 Pdf .
BORDASS, Bill and PENDER, Robyn, Retrofit: Towards a proportionate people-first, approach
National Retrofit Conference, Futurebuild, Excel, London, 5 March 2025 .
BORDASS, Bill, PENDER, Robyn, STEELE, Katie and GRAHAM, Amy, Learning to sail a building: a people-first approach to retrofit
Buildings and Cities, 6(1), pp. 378–397. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.572 Pdf .
DIAMOND S., Inkling and Julie Godefroy Sustainability, Building Performance Evaluation Guide
Good Homes Alliance and The Home Grown Homes Project, February 2021. See also BPE Toolkit. .
GETHING, Bill and BORDASS, Bill, Rapid Assessment Checklist for Sustainable Buildings
Building Research & Information, 34:4, 416-426 Building Research & Information .
GRIFFITHS, Nigel, From Retrofit to Regeneration: a blueprint for post-Covid recovery
STBA, Responsible Retrofit Series November, 2021 STBA .
KUIRI L., The physical and social aspects of retrofitting passive cooling strategies to timber school buildings and their surrounds in South East Queensland
49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2015, Thesis (19Mb) .
KUIRI L., Adaptive comfort actions and passive cooling interventions: implications from a Brisbane school
J. Zuo, L. Daniel, V. Soebarto (eds.), Fifty years later: Revisiting the role of architectural science in design and practice: 50th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2016, pp. 587–596. .
LEESON, Adala, Heritage and the Circular Economy
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, 1 April 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
MABY C. and OWEN A, Installer Power: the key to unlocking low carbon retrofit in private housing
University of Leeds, September 2015 .
MARINCIONI V., ALTAMIRANO-MEDINA1, H., RICKABY1, P. GRIFFITHS, N. AKTAS Y. and KING C., Towards an integrated moisture-safe retrofit process for traditional buildings in policy and industry
SBE21 Sustainable Built Heritage, IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 863 (2021). Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Dedicated to the memory of Neil May 1962-2018 .
MAY N. and GRIFFITHS N., Planning Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA), August 2015 .
MAY N. and SANDERS C, Moisture in buildings: an integrated approach to risk assessment and guidance
British Standards Institute (BSI), London , 2018 .
MAY N., and RYE C., Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (SBTA), 2012. .
PENDER R., Making good decisions: avoiding alignment problems and maladaptation in retrofit and construction
Journal of Architectural Conservation, August 2021 As published .
PENDER R. and LEMIEUX DJ., The Road Not Taken: Building Physics, and Returning to First Principles in Sustainable Design
Atmosphere 2020, 11, 62 Creative Commons open source article. Atmosphere .
PENDER, Robyn, How Energy Availability Influenced Building Form
Online presentation to Traditional Architecture Group, 30 June 2022. Full slide set 40Mb download.. Compressed 15Mb download. Please contact Robyn Pender for slide citation permissions. .
PENDER, Robyn and BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit Our Buildings or Our Brains? A Science-Based People-First Approach
National Retrofit Conference, Futurebuild, Excel, London, 5 March 2025 .
SIMPSON K., JANDA K. and OWEN A., Preparing ‘middle actors’ to deliver zero-carbon building transitions
Buildings and Cities, 1(1), 610–624. Open access 21 Sep 2020 Source .
SLEE B. and HYDE R., The NSW demountable classroom: an analytical study to improve this radical building solution for education
in R.H. Crawford and A. Stephan (eds.), Living and Learning: Research for a Better Built Environment: 49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2015, pp.85–99. .
WOOLLEY, Tom, Retrofit: why the use of low embodied energy, low carbon breathable materials is crucial
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA) / The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) 2020 Online Conference, 6th October 2020 . STBA | The SPAB | Rachel Bevan Archiects .