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Within the range of traditional buildings in Scotland,
what types are you looking at?
We’ve essentially looked at developing case studies
in the different housing and building types in Scotland.
Firstly, your detached cottage in a rural area; your tenement
flat as a case study in conjunction with Changeworks at
Lauriston Place in Edinburgh; a tenement flat in
East Glasgow in conjunction with Reidvale Housing Association,
and that’s the mass-wall internal insulation
improvements we discussed earlier.
We’re looking at a case study for energy efficiency
improvements in a Victorian school.
We’ve got a project running currently with Glasgow
City Council at the City Chambers in Glasgow,
into energy efficiency improvements in a large
civic building of national importance.
We are looking at other types,
we’ve got a case study with a small village hall in the
Trossachs National Park.
A lot of regional communities have had difficulty
maintaining and heating their community premises,
and we’re looking at finding out good ways of helping people do that.
We input quite regularly to climate-challenge fund projects,
where we’re helping communities give
energy efficiency advice to home-owners on an area basis.
We’re part of CIC Start Online,
as part of this interview process,
and we’re bidding for other European-funded initiatives
whereby the energy efficiency of the traditional housing stock is being looked at.
We’ve got a redundant school refurbishment project in Campbeltown in Argyll & Bute,
whereby the ruined building is going to be restored
with respect to hiker accommodation,
using innovative materials, natural products,
clay finishes and plasters like that, natural ventilation,
and a whole number of areas which historically people were
quite good at in terms of modifying the internal environment.
And there is a little bit of rediscovering lost knowledge,
particularly in terms of passive ventilation and surface
treatments where we feel some modern building treatments
are not always appropriate for the building itself,
and indeed for the occupants if we’re going to
keep carbon use in buildings to a minimum,
which means passive-systems.
And if we can perhaps develop those as well,
so much the better.
The final case study I’ll mention is on the Dumfries House Estate.
It’s called the Garden Bothy,
a mid to late 19th century detached 2-bedroom cottage where
we’re doing a series of background tests,
baseline tests,
and sequential intervention in specific areas.
And that’s floors, walls, roof, windows,
and a couple of other options for heating,
both in terms of space-heating and hot water.
And that will be getting underway hopefully in the next few months.