Maintenance Matters
Rhyd-y-car Terrace in St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life For those, who have not been to St Fagans in Cardiff, it is worth the trip. Great place and an ideal way to start to understand how buildings have changed over …
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What is the Whole House Approach?
A house is a structure embracing complex systems, embodied history and knowledge, not to mention humans! We tend to think of houses as being simple structures that provide shelter, security and a place to call home. However, they are in …
Community Work with Renew Wales
Saron Chapel in Treoes Eco Home Centre is a Rounded Developments Enterprises project. RDE is a not-for-profit organisation that does work with other partners in Wales and one of our main ones is Renew Wales (see www.renewwales.org.uk). Renew Wales is …
Building Science
From: http://www.battlemccarthy.demon.co.uk/ When you start to dissect how buildings work it is really complicated. A right old mix of elements like: Solar Gain Thermal loss of materials Ventilation rates Air change requirements for different rooms / activities Acoustic characteristics of materials …
New Solid Wall Insulation Guide
Bristol City Council came to the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (the STBA) to address the issues associated with the Solid Wall Insulation (SWI) works that they were doing. The video and associated tools (that can be found at https://warmupbristol.co.uk/content/planning-guidance-your-home) have been …
Retrofit Guidance Tool – DECC Approved
The STBA have launched the brand new site Responsible Retrofit that can be found at http://responsible-retrofit.org/. This is the new home of the DECC funded Responsible Retrofit Knowledge Centre and Guidance Wheel. This is the culmination of years of research from …
STBA Guidance Wheel Launch in Wales
The shape of refurbishment to come!! This Thursday sees the Welsh launch of the STBA Guidance Wheel Retrofit Tool – The “Green Wheel“ It shall all take place on Thursday 13th March 2014 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Cardiff – …
Damp and lots of important numbers
At present the Standard BS 5250:2011 is used almost exclusively as the sole test of moisture risk for buildings. This Standard provides advice on the avoidance of internal surface and interstitial condensation caused by the movement of water vapour by …
Can refurbished solid walls reach 0.3 U?
Building Regulations in the UK have been interpreted for years as demanding that refurbished walls need to meet a U value of 0.3. Products have therefore been designed using BR443 and BS5250:2011 to comply with this. Unfortunately, even BS5250:2011 states …
RDE joins STBA
The STBA are a growingly important organisation that has highlighted the need for sustainable refurbishment of older solid walled buildings. The STBA has representation from key organisations like Historic Scotland, CADW, English Heritage, SPAB, UCL, CIAT, … and now, Rounded …