Legacy Topic: Documents

Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings

RICS have been working with Historic England and the Property Care Association to create a methodology centred around investigating moisture related issues in buildings. The aim of this initiative is to draw wider awareness to the issues that can occur in traditional buildings if the correct damp inspection principles are not followed, and to raise…

Report by Colin King of the Building Research Establishment, into the unintended consequences of installing solid wall insulation. This is a sobering report, and shows that it is almost impossible to correctly survey, specify and install solid wall insulation. Although a good idea, practically speaking it probably won’t deliver the promised thermal improvements. More likely,…

The CEO of a scheme operator – the PCA, and now a director of Trustmark, wrote to British Board of Agrement (BBA) in Oct 2013 to seek to prevent consumers from finding out that many damp proofing products do not work despite BBA issued certificates of ‘gold standard fit for purpose’