All buildings should be considered for re-use. Demolition and re-building from scratch is neither realistic nor sustainable, while re-use can help combat climate change. Rachel Jackson Rachel Jackson and Jean Rice from NSCES and and other experts are featured in The Fifth Estate a series of articles on re-loved buildings showcasing conservation and adaptive reuse…
Heritage conservation involves retention of existing structures and fabric, reducing carbon emissions and utilising increasingly scarce resources in a responsible way.
This Practice Note relates to the conservation of existing buildings and improvements to their environmental performance. The Heritage and Sustainability Practice Note series is expected to include: Heritage and Sustainability Practice Note1: Built Heritage (this Practice Note) Heritage and Sustainability Practice Note 2: Cultural Landscape Heritage and Sustainability Practice Note 3: Intangible Heritage Heritage and…
The Australia ICOMOS National Scientific Committee for Energy and Sustainability (NSCES) works towards the conservation of heritage places in a sustainable context, including cultural heritage, social values and environmental values. We meet regularly and encourage anyone in Australia with interest and experience in the sustainability of heritage places and a willingness to actively contribute to…
DRAFT Practice Note 1: Built Environment NSCES are happy to announce this Practice Note on Sustainability and Heritage in the Built Environment – the first in a series of practice notes in energy, sustainability and climate change in heritage by NSCES. At the moment it is in DRAFT, but it will be finalised soon….
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Jennifer Faddy, September 2016 The focus of the conference was on building reuse and retrofit because this is one of the major challenges to achieve carbon reduction targets in Europe. One of the keynote speakers, Raymond Cole from Canada, called for recognition that buildings in their context needed to “do more good” and called for more…
Noni Boyd, August 2016 Having recently been to Vietnam via Hong Kong to stay with a friend who has been working in Hoi An, I was once again struck by the range of uses to which bamboo can be put and at the other end of the sustainability scale, the Asian obsession with air…
Special issue of APT Bulletin on climate change and historic preservation The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) recently released a special issue of APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology which examines the intersection of climate change and historic preservation. The bulletin includes content from US, Canada and the UK. You can read an outline…
