Publications

Course Handbook: Level 3 Award in Energy Efficiency for Older and Traditional Buildings

This handbook is a collaboration of the UK’s heritage bodies and is a resource for those undertaking qualifications in retrofit of older and traditional buildings.

Inform Guide: Improving Energy Efficiency in Traditional Buildings

An INFORM guide to what can be done to improve energy efficiency in traditional buildings, and how this relates to building standards.

Guide to Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings

This guide looks into the thermal retrofit of traditional buildings to improve their energy efficiency, through a range of fabric improvements measures to different elements of a structure.

Wave and Tidal Energy

An introduction to tidal energy in the historic environment.

Technical Paper 06

Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in Traditional Buildings

A scoping study on indoor air quality and efficiency in traditional buildings.

Refurbishment Case Study 7

Scotstarvit Tower Cottage, Cupar - Thermal Upgrades and Installation of Radiant Heating

This case study describes energy efficiency upgrades to a detached rural building.

Technical Paper 13

Embodied energy considerations

A technical paper outlining the importance of life cycle analysis in assessing the sustainability of new buildings and maintaining existing buildings.

Technical Paper 04

Energy Modelling in Traditional Scottish Houses

A paper looking at energy modelling for three typical traditionally built dwellings in Scotland.

Refurbishment Case Study 8

Garden Bothy, Cumnock

A case study describing efficiency upgrade works to a two-storey stone building.