Dr Tim Yates, currently the Technical Director of the Building Research Team at BRE and a newly re-elected trustee of COTAC – the Council on Training in Architectural Conservation – has been appointed as President of the trade association for the natural stone industry, the Stone Federation.
Dr Yates has more than 40 years’ experience in work related to buildings and structures, including archaeology, research in the analysis of materials, studies of the impact of climate and pollution on heritage structures and the testing of stone and mortar. In his current role, he is responsible for managing projects relating to stone, heritage and other traditional building materials.
Over the last 25 years he has led teams specialising in masonry, heritage, natural stone, whole life performance and European Regulations, particularly the Construction Products Regulation. His team has assessed materials and structures on more than 500 projects all around the world, many relating to the deterioration of building fabric, or the selection and testing of new and replacement natural stones for construction.
For COTAC see http://www.cotac.org.uk
