{"id":42231,"date":"2025-02-21T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42231"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:27:05","slug":"ihbcs-context-182-now-out-part-1-heating-and-ventilation-from-sustainable-heating-for-listed-buildings-to-people-first-retrofit-hothouses-and-more-even-alec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42231","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s Context 182 now out (Part 1): \u2018Heating and ventilation\u2019 from Sustainable heating for listed buildings to people-first retrofit, hothouses and more (& even Alec & Gus!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The new issue of IHBC\u2019s members\u2019 journal, Context<\/em><\/a> \u2013 No. 182<\/a> – examines \u2018heating and ventilation\u2019 because \u2018Is anything more important to historic building conservation…<\/em>\u2019, and that\u2019s just the start of our CPD journey that includes Alec Clifton-Taylor, Gus Astley and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The IHBC writes:\u2019\u2026Some words of comfort\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is anything more important to historic building conservation than heating and ventilation? They may be the key to making buildings comfortable, livable, affordable and resource-efficient. In this issue Jonathan Taylor (page 15) considers how to reduce the approximately 17 per cent of the UK\u2019s carbon emissions produced by space heating and cooling of buildings, while recognising that most traditionally-constructed buildings are unsuited to the high levels of insulation required to meet current building regulations. Robyn Pender, Amy Graham and Katie Steele (page 21) propose a \u2018people-first approach to retrofit\u2019, warning of \u2018the destructive paradigm of air temperature and fabric-first retrofit\u2019. The climate is warming, people are freezing in their homes and, since Grenfell, we know some of the costs of unsafe cladding. How can we make sense of this? It is not as though the world does not offer plenty of examples of how to build and operate buildings to be comfortable and healthy, without using more energy than we can afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stepping back to the early 19th century with Esm\u00e9 Coppock (page 25), we see Sir Walter Scott investigating the best forms of heating and ventilation to make his garden hothouse \u2013 its design based on medieval siege tent, it has been suggested \u2013 fully productive of exotic produce. We go on to the later 19th century with Faye Davies and Lawrence Williamson (page 29), and find the enterprising people of Torquay investing in their own form of indoor climate change, by building a Winter Gardens that would extend the tourist season. The project was a commercial failure. A few years later we see that same huge building, dismantled, being shipped round the coast to Great Yarmouth (not a single pane of glass was broken, it was claimed), where today\u2019s ingenious restorers are finding how to make the best use of its space at the least cost to the world\u2019s climate. As Davies and Williamson write, \u2018As originally designed, the great glasshouses are among the least sustainable constructions imaginable.\u2019 The challenges of heating and ventilation are as intriguing as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Context<\/em>\u2019s themed articles include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n