UK Sustainable Heritage: Reducing Carbon in Domestic Heritage Building - Recorded 27/02/2025

Making impactful contributions towards reducing emissions

Overview

This webinar will educate and engage building surveyors and building control professionals on the importance of sustainable practices in the maintenance, retrofitting, and conservation of domestic heritage buildings. By exploring innovative yet sensitive strategies to reduce carbon emissions while preserving architectural integrity, this event will address the challenges and opportunities in balancing heritage conservation with environmental responsibility.

This webinar will enable building surveyors and building control professionals with the knowledge and tools to make impactful contributions to reducing carbon emissions in domestic heritage buildings and improving energy efficiency. It will inspire sustainable innovation while respecting the heritage fabric, positioning attendees at the forefront of the industry’s evolving practices

It is anticipated that the webinar would cover the following:

• Understanding the carbon footprint of heritage buildings, in terms of how HBs are represented in Energy Performance Certificates and standard modelling tools.
• The unique challenges and constraints associated with retrofitting heritage buildings, looking at how households use and value their buildings and how this effects their retrofit motivations
• Innovative solutions and case studies involving embodied and lifecycle carbon
• Actionable strategies for professionals, homeowners, and stakeholders to reduce carbon footprints while preserving historical integrity.

Speaker

This webinar will be delivered by Dr Freya Wise, ESRC Research Fellow, University of the West of England, funding reference: ES/Z504099/1.