{"id":8436,"date":"2014-09-03T18:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:00:13","slug":"cct-support-new-research-into-damp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8436","title":{"rendered":"CCT support new research into damp"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research is to be carried out into the conservation issues for church towers, in a new studentship launched through a three university partnership with English Heritage and the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT)<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

CCT writes<\/span>:
\nThe CCT is proud to announce that we will be supporting a 4-year postgraduate student study into preventing damp.\u00a0 Lucie Fusade will focus on the Chruch of St. Michael and All Angels in Princetown, Devon, while she undertakes formal study at University College London and the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n

The new studentship has been joint-funded by English Heritage Buildings Conservation and Research Team and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to explore damp in church towers.\u00a0 Many historic buildings in exposed locations such as the south west of England suffer from damp problems caused by driving rain which can be complex to manage and solve.\u00a0 Tall buildings or those on elevated sites are particularly vulnerable.\u00a0 English Heritage has already carried out extensive research on these problems in the form of the \u2018Damp Towers\u2019 project which provides the starting point for this studentship.<\/p>\n

The programme is administered by the centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology a joint programme between University College London, the University of Oxford and University of Brighton.<\/p>\n

The Damp Towers project looked at grouting and rendering as potential solutions, but did not evaluate the potential role of pointing mortars.\u00a0 The specific topic of the studentship leads on from this earlier research, and is \u2018Mortars for controlling moisture problems in damp towers\u2019.\u00a0 It focuses on two broad research questions:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 How does driving rain interact with different repointing mortars?<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 How can we improve knowledge, skills and practice to maximise the performance of good repointing mortars?<\/p>\n

Heady stuff!\u00a0 But we are certain that Lucie will be up to the challenge.\u00a0\u00a0 The Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Princetown is a striking building in the middle of Dartmoor.\u00a0 It stands 1,430 feet above sea level, and is exposed on all sides to high winds and twice the national average rainfall.\u00a0 The tower is currently host to ferns and algae that thrive on moisture and threaten the structure.\u00a0 Lucie’s research will help us to protect not only this church but those across our estate that face damp problems.\u00a0 This research will provide valuable learning to the broader conservation sector.<\/p>\n

EH Damp Towers Project<\/a><\/p>\n

IHBC newsblogs on damp issues<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

View the news release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research is to be carried out into the conservation issues for church towers, in a new studentship launched through a three university partnership with English Heritage and the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT).\u00a0 CCT writes: The CCT is proud to … Continue reading →<\/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-8436","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\/8436","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=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}