Practical Building Conservation: Building Environment

VVAA
2012
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4558-0

Practical Building Conservation is a ten-part series that looks at the conservation of building materials and systems. It builds on the research and field experience of English Heritage, and is aimed at those who work on or look after historic buildings: primarily architects, surveyors, engineers, conservators, contractors and conservation officers, but also owners, curators, students and researchers.

This volume, Building Environment, looks at the interaction between building materials and systems and their surroundings and how this may lead to deterioration, outlining the evolution of building envelope design and environmental control systems. It presents ways of assessing remedial treatments, and includes discussions on occupant health, and sustainable retrofitting.