{"id":12485,"date":"2016-04-07T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2016-04-07T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:09:51","slug":"ihbc-welcomes-colin-kings-bre-publication-on-solid-wall-insulation-and-its-unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=12485","title":{"rendered":"IHBC welcomes Colin King\u2019s BRE publication on solid wall insulation and its \u2018Unintended consequences\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/page.jsp?id=3397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12486 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bre_website-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"bre_website\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>The IHBC has warmly welcomed the publication by BRE of current and ground-breaking research into solid wall insulation (SWI) and its unintended consequences, by BRE Director Colin King<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Acting Chair of the IHBC\u2019s Policy committee, Roy Lewis, was pleased to note the headline conclusions that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018The research available consistently shows that the actual savings achieved as a result of solid wall insulation are far less than those predicted, and<\/li>\n<li>There can be a number of unintended consequences of installing solid wall insulation, in particular that solid wall insulation can disturb the complex systems of heritage buildings that exhibit a delicate equilibrium between thermal mass, air leakage, building envelope properties and heating regime, as well as result in loss of historic detail.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2018This confirms what many of us have said for a long time\u2019 he observed.<\/p>\n<p>John Preston, IHBC Policy Committee vice chair, and Heritage Chair, STBA said: \u2018It\u2019s great news that\u00a0Colin King\u2019s research is finally published.\u00a0 This is the first really large scale assessment of solid wall insulation issues in traditional buildings, encompassing some 1,800 properties. It highlights a wide range of unintended consequences, and points the way to wide-ranging reforms which are urgently needed.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This research is\u00a0part of a major BRE research project for DECC, and we must hope that, as with the Solid Wall\u00a0Literature Review which preceded, it will be subsequently\u00a0published on the DECC website.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018One caveat, though: Colin King\u2019s work has been published by BRE as a technically focussed \u2018Route-map for Change\u2019; what the published report does not make clear, and IHBC among others needs to take forward, is the scale of the problem in terms of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>buildings (total number of traditional buildings awaiting retrofit)<\/li>\n<li>skills (in traditional building construction, not just in relation to ventilation and moisture management), and<\/li>\n<li>training needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together these amount to a large-scale and radical change, which has to be delivered over a very short time if Climate Change Act targets are to be met. But at last we have the solid industry (as opposed to heritage body) evidence of the need for change: now the challenge is to build on it and make the case!\u2019<\/p>\n<p><u>UPDATES<\/u>: IHBC\u2019s Wales Branch trustee John Edwards, and Colin King, will speak at the Federation of Master Builders annual conference in Brighton on 22 April where Colin will talk about his work and John will cover the competencies required from builders and others.<\/p>\n<p>John Preston will be covering this area in his lecture workshop to the IHBC Yorkshire Branch AGM on 7 May.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more background and download the report via the BRE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/page.jsp?id=3397\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0(download menu at right)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/filelibrary\/pdf\/projects\/swi\/UnintendedConsequencesRoutemap_v4.0_160316_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a> the report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC has warmly welcomed the publication by BRE of current and ground-breaking research into solid wall insulation (SWI) and its unintended consequences, by BRE Director Colin King Acting Chair of the IHBC\u2019s Policy committee, Roy Lewis, was pleased to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=12485\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485","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=12485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}