Usable Buildings: Traditional Buildings

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BARBER, Daniel A., Drawing The Line: Becoming expert in repair ...
Places Journal, January 2024. .
BORDASS W., Lead Roofs on Historic Buildings: an advisory note on underside corrosion
English Heritage and Lead Roof Association, 1997 (OCR Scan) .
BORDASS W., Underside of Roofs and its Prevention: an overview of English Heritage's research
Metals, Vol 1, April 1998, pp 21-72 English Heritage Research Transactions, Research and Case Studies in Architectural Conservation, .
BORDASS W., Naturally Comfortable Offices: a refurbishment project
Best Practice Programme, Good Practice Case study , 308, 1997 .
BORDASS, BIll, Moisture-related risks in roof spaces: principles and effect of modern practices
Historic England, Traditional Roofs: Repair and conservation, Church House, London, 3 March 2020 .
BORDASS, Bill, Moisture-related risks in roof spaces: principles and effect of modern practices
Historic England, Damp, Timber Decay and Sustainability, Church House, London, 4 May 2021. Companion to 2020 presentation with same title. .
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, Retrofit: A Sense Of Proportion
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) Annual Conference 2023, Progressing Retrofit – designing for human factors: comfort, health & affordability, Glasgow 15-16 September 2023 .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit our buildings, or our brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency (PDF)
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, St Peter’s, Vauxhall, London April 1, 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit our buildings, or our brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency (Video)
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, St Peter’s, Vauxhall, London April 1, 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. PDF These match the slides in the video. Presentation begins at 27:20 on the timeline. .
BORDASS, Bill, Energy Retrofits and Traditional Buildings: Let's keep things in proportion
UCL Centre for Sustainable Heritage, 2 Feb 2024 .
Bordass, Bill, Old windows and the science of heat, air and moisture transfer
A Future for Historic Windows, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester 27-28 June 2024 .
BORDASS, Bill, Can we be healthier and save energy without reconstructing our buildings?
PowerEx Live, London, 12 Dec 2024 .
BORDASS, Bill, Coming to Terms with Your Church Heating
Doncaster Minster, 19 February 2025 .
BORDASS, Bill , Retrofit: a sense of proportion
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) Conference, Progressing Retrofit – designing for human factors: comfort, health & affordability, Glasgow 15-16 September 2023 Slides Video .
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 .
CLIFTON-TAYLOR, Alec, Six English Towns, A Pattern of Building, Stamford Lincolnshire
BBC, one example from three series 1977-1984. .
CURTIS, Roger, Appropriate retrofit of traditional and listed buildings
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) 2023 Conference .
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 .
HISTORIC ENGLAND, Technical Conservation Guidance and Research
Historic England website homepage .
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., Bridging the gap: integrating energy measures into mainstream home repairs, maintenance and improvements
ECEEE Summer Study Proceedings, 3–8 June 2019 Belambra Presqu'île de Giens, France ECEEE members' access to full proceedings .
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 .
MARINCIONI, Valentina, JANSSENS, Karl and CAMBRAY, Toby, Moisture properties of insulation materials and their applicability to traditional construction
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance, 2025 Pdf .
MAY N. and GRIFFITHS N., Planning Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA), August 2015 .
MAY N., and RYE C., Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (SBTA), 2012. .
NIGHTINGALE F., Notes on Hospitals
London, Longman, 1863. Link goes to Internet Archive. Internet Archive .
ORBAŞLI, Aylin, Conservation theory in the twenty-first century: slow evolution or a paradigm shift?
Journal of Architectural Conservation, 23:3, 157-170, 2017. With kind permission Journal of Architectural Conservation .
PASQUALE, Lisa, PAS2035 Conflicts with Traditional and Heritage Buildings: Five Critical Conflicts and Dilemmas
Sustaining Buildings conference, STBA & SPAB, Wednesday 12th October, 2022 .
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, Building Lessons From The Vernacular Past
Buildings and Cities journal, 1 November 2023. .
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 .
WISE, F., MANCASTER, A., & JONES, D., Rethinking retrofit of residential heritage buildings.
Buildings and Cities, 2(1), 2021, pp. 495–517. Buildings and Cities .
WISE, Freya, Reducing Carbon while Retaining Heritage: retrofitting approaches for vernacular buildings and their residents
PhD thesis The Open University. 2022. 38MB pdf .
WOOD C., BORDASS W. and BAKER P., Research into the Thermal Performance of Timber Sash Windows
English Heritage, October 2009 .
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 .