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Course Handbook: Level 3 Award in Energy Efficiency Measures for Older and Traditional Buildings
An additional resource to support the guided learning for Level 3 Award in Energy Efficiency Measures for Older and Traditional Buildings.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) Case Studies
These case studies provide evidence of issues surrounding Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) assessments for traditionally constructed buildings.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating solid walls
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating solid masonry walls.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating flat roofs
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for improving the thermal performance of flat roofs by the addition or upgrading of insulation.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating solid ground floors
This guidance note provides advice on the methods, materials and risks involved with insulating solid ground floors.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating thatched roofs
This guidance provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for improving the energy efficiency of thatched roofs.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating dormer windows
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating dormer windows. Dormers come in a large variety of shapes, sizes and materials and can be a particularly difficult element to insulate.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Early cavity walls
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for improving the thermal performance of buildings built with early forms of masonry cavity walls dating from before the Second World War.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulation of suspended timber floors
This guidance note provides advice on the methods, materials and risks involved with insulating suspended timber ground floors.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating pitched roofs at ceiling level-cold roofs
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating pitched roofs at ceiling level. When insulation is placed in this position, the roof is often referred to as a ‘cold roof’.
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Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency
Approaches to improve the energy efficiency and support carbon reduction of historic buildings, whilst conserving their significance.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating pitched roofs at rafter level
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating pitched roofs at rafter level. When insulation is placed at this position the roof is often referred to as a 'warm roof'.
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Historic England Research Issue 12
Science Special issue of Research magazine showing how science is used to provide insight into historic people and places, both terrestrial and marine
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Insulating timber-framed walls
This guidance note provides advice on the methods, materials and risks involved with insulating the walls of timber framed buildings.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Secondary glazing for windows
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for upgrading the thermal performance of windows by the addition of secondary glazing.
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings: Draught-proofing windows and doors
This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for improving the thermal performance of existing windows and doors by draught-proofing.
Series: Guidance - Series 2 Issue 3: Report on Local Authority Historic Environment Staff Resources 2023
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A Guide for Owners of Listed Buildings
This guide has been put together to answer some of the most commonly asked questions by those who live in or care for listed buildings.
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Planning Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
The guidance looks at the complexity and uncertainty in the way that older buildings, new technologies, nature and people perform and interact and how by taking a realistic whole building approach risks and liabilities can be reduced.
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Traditional Windows: their care, repair and upgrading
Guidance and best practice on the understanding, conservation and thermal upgrading of traditional windows.
Series: Guidance
