The Low-Carbon Retrofit of a UK Conservation Area Terrace: Introducing a Pattern Book of Energy-Saving Details

Moorhouse, Jon; Littlewood, John

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“…. The tensions and conflicts between the sustainability goals and the preservation of the modern built heritage have broadly been addressed in the literature [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Some authors took a stand against the demolition of old housing buildings, arguing that important synergies can be found between sustainability and conservation, e.g., [4,5,18,21].…”

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“…Some authors took a stand against the demolition of old housing buildings, arguing that important synergies can be found between sustainability and conservation, e.g., [4,5,18,21]. Other authors focused on the design challenge of finding an architectural balance between existing and newly added qualities when designing the renovation of housing blocks with specific architectural heritage values, e.g., [14,15,19,20]. Oorschot et al [20] considered the careful analysis of the architectural and cultural value of the original building by recording which characteristics must be preserved and which could be modified to be of great importance.…”

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Energy Retrofit of Social Housing with Cultural Value in Spain: Analysis of Strategies Conserving the Original Image vs. Coordinating Its Modification

2020

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Two renovation strategies were considered and compared in this paper for the energy renovation of social housing in condo buildings built in 1945–1969, situated in residential estates that have been declared urban areas of interest. One of the strategies, named here the image conservation approach, consists of renovating the building with very efficient solutions, except for the brick-facing walls, which will only have insulation in the existing cavities. The other strategy, the image coordination approach, consists of renovating the whole building with efficient solutions, including external insulation for existing brick-facing walls, and drawing up coordination plans for each of the residential estates in order to guarantee a coordinated new image of the residential estates. By means of three case studies in the city of Zaragoza and four scenarios of improvement, the two strategies are compared regarding the regulation compliance, the energy use, the emissions reduction, the thermal comfort, and the cost-effectiveness of the measures. The results show that the image coordination approach is the best strategy in regard to the studied aspects, achieving a 69%–79% reduction of CO2 emissions and a 75%–97% reduction of heating use, as well as being the only one capable of transforming these buildings into nearly zero energy buildings (nZEBs).

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Energy Retrofit of Social Housing with Cultural Value in Spain: Analysis of Strategies Conserving the Original Image vs. Coordinating Its Modification

2020

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“…comm.). They illustrated their case with statistics which circulate widely but which were taken from the Retrofi t for the Future Challenge that in order to achieve the U.K. national target of carbon reduction of 80% by 2050 at least one building every two minutes will have to be retrofi tt ed to a high standard (Jenkins 2010;Moorhouse and Litt lewood 2012). The team saw litt le evidence that retro-fi tt ing was widespread, so they believed their role as housing, energy and sustainability experts was essential.…”

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Agency, Sustainability and Organizational Change

Dickson¹

2013

Anthropology in Action

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This article discusses how agency is emergent from the asymmetrical power interactions of multiple social actors and organizations. Agency, contingent and relational, is creative even when interpreted by people as unsuccessful. I employ ethnographic research from within a local authority sustainability team who were threatened with redundancy because of funding cuts imposed during the implementation of British Prime Minister David Cameron's Big Society project. In order to manage their situation, possible futures had to be re-imagined and appropriately contained through processes of self-assessment and self-management. The ability to enable self-directing action was oft en evident but was frequently interpreted by people as unsuccessful. This stemmed from misrecognition, scarcity and the lack of capacity to bring about full and substantial changes. Both the sustainability team and their work emerge from this process reduced and reformed through the competing tensions of systems of political governance and technologies of the self.

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“…based on a few standard housing typologies. Such solutions that are not necessarily appropriate for buildings with architectural or historical value, which are often atypical in form or may utilise unique construction methods and materials (Moorhouse and Littlewood 2012). Furthermore, there is an inherent tension between the drive to use less energy and the value of preserving our built heritage (Davies and Osmani 2011).…”

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Utilising resident feedback to inform energy-saving interventions at the Barbican

Behar¹

2013

Local Environment

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The introduction of the Green Deal provides evidence of the UK Government's commitment to improving the energy efficiency of our ageing and underperforming housing stock. However, the issue of what to do with those buildings which for reasons of historical or architectural significance do not lend themselves to conventional fabric interventions has not been addressed fully. A residents' survey was conducted at the Grade II listed Barbican Centre in London, to characterise levels of occupant comfort and satisfaction, to identify any problems experienced by the residents, and to explore possibilities to improve the energy performance of the estate without compromising its status as an iconic example of postwar architecture and planning. This paper explores how occupant feedback surveys can inform the development of energy-saving interventions at an atypical case study site.

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The Low-Carbon Retrofit of a UK Conservation Area Terrace: Introducing a Pattern Book of Energy-Saving Details

Cited by 6 publications

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Energy Retrofit of Social Housing with Cultural Value in Spain: Analysis of Strategies Conserving the Original Image vs. Coordinating Its Modification

Energy Retrofit of Social Housing with Cultural Value in Spain: Analysis of Strategies Conserving the Original Image vs. Coordinating Its Modification

Agency, Sustainability and Organizational Change

Utilising resident feedback to inform energy-saving interventions at the Barbican

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