{"id":1207,"date":"2010-03-26T12:28:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T12:30:27","slug":"hs-highlights-he-energy-efficiencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"HS highlights HE energy efficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Scotland is  challenging    \u00a0the view that traditionally built homes, which comprise almost a  fifth \u00a0of    Scotland\u2019s houses, are energy inefficient and a barrier to meeting  Scotland\u2019s    carbon reduction targets in the housing sector.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the issues discussed at the conference &#8216;Energy  Efficiency and    Sustainability in Traditional Buildings&#8217;, \u00a0hosted by Historic Scotland  on    Wednesday 24 March at The Hub in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Key research presented included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A report that quantifies the embodied energy  \t  in various stone procurement routes by the Scottish Institute of  \t  Sustainable Technology \u00a0which demonstrates the considerable  additional  \t  carbon associated with imported building stone, as opposed to stone  \t  sourced more locally.<\/li>\n<li>A report by the Carbon Centre, a work in  progress,  \t  describing the various costs involved in the refurbishment of a 19th  \t  century cottage, and how that can be cheaper in financial and carbon  terms  \t  than demolition and rebuild.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Roger Curtis, Historic Scotland said: \u201cUpgraded    traditional buildings can outperform modern structures when the  lifelines of    the buildings are taken into account. \u00a0Historic and traditional  buildings can    also contribute to emission reductions if they are managed in a  sustainable    way. \u00a0Although a lifeline for a traditional building is taken as one  hundred    years, there are many more in Scotland which are much older. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Scotland is challenging \u00a0the view that traditionally built homes, which comprise almost a fifth \u00a0of Scotland\u2019s houses, are energy inefficient and a barrier to meeting Scotland\u2019s carbon reduction targets in the housing sector. This is one of the issues &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}