Traditional materials and sustainability in the built environment.
This is a very useful field manual produced by RCAHMS and SRP which takes you through a step by step approach to recording a site; including use of maps, sketching, scale drawing, tape & offset, using a plane table and photography. Obviously the guide is useful for recording any building and not just those in the hands of the archaeologist. (also available here) Click here to download: Recording_Archaeological_sites.pdf (10.66 MB) (download...
There are a huge number of buildings around the country which have fallen out of use or have been neglected by their owners to the extent that they are at risk of being lost. They are at risk of being...
Around 1760 Sir James Clerk (3rd Baronet), began plans to remodel the family home of Newbiggin House. Originally intending to incorporate parts off Newbiggin in the new scheme the existing house was...
(download) Click here to download: your-gargoyles-grotesque-ExkCvBDclcEsvEAJzzgu.zip (261 KB) If there’s one thing I am it’s a pedant. If water...
(download) Click here to download: wall-head-stabilisation-at-penicuik-house-EkHyEnFvnFBmtFgHByFc.zip (26.34 MB...
Speyside is home to around half of Scotland’s whisky distilleries and now the waste from the production process is to be used to power up to 9000 homes. An new 7.2 Mw biomass plant supplied by http://www.aet-biomass.com/ has been given the go ahead near the village of Rothes. The £44 million plant, due to be operational by 2013 will take waste (draff) from a number of the Region’s stills and burn it with wood-chips to produce electricity for the grid saving some 46,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. More here.
Click here to download: Molineux_et_al_2009.pdf (344 KB) (download) Click here to download: Molineux_et_al_2009.pdf (344 KB) An interesting look at alternative green roof substrates.
Click here to download: The_impact_of_Climate_Change_in_Malawi_Final_Report_v2.pdf (1.29 MB) (download) Click here to download...
...energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another or transferred from one body to another, but the total amount of energy remains constant… There are all sorts of systems we put energy into but until now have failed to get it all out again, for example: Recovering pipeline pressure or ‘let Down’. Natural-gas customers around the world pay for the equivalent of gigawatts of pressure to push natural gas from wells to the point of use. When the gas arrives at the local-distribution...
Easily distracted owner of one child and one dog, works on built environment / conservation / sustainability issues. Builds things, fixes other things. Advocate of traditional building materials and skills. Can be found on twitter @_jamiebaker & @GZS_UK
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