Sustainable Building Conservation: Theory and Practice of Responsive Design in the Heritage Environment (UK) (1ST ed.) by Oriel Prizeman

This book incorporates UK and international case studies and essays to identify the overlaps in the interests of energy and building conservation.

The book will appeal to architecture students, newly qualified professionals and conservation architects and will enhance readers' ambitions, so that they feel equipped and inspired to work with old buildings sensitively, creatively and sustainably.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Evaluations- (Theories) 1. The English Climate and Enduring Principles of Environmental Design 2. The Energy Context of Domestic Traditional Buildings for the UK 3. Retrofitting Heritage Buildings 4. Containing the Questions 

Part 2: Responses- Practices 5. An Integrated Approach To Heritage And Sustainability: Four Academic Building Projects in the USA 6. New Court Trinity College Cambridge: Continuing a legacy of inhabitation 7. Four Case Studies Demonstrating the Impacts of Energy Conservation in Traditional Domestic Buildings 8. Sustaining Heating in Places of Worship: Physical, Social, Organizational and Commercial Factors as Determinants of Strategic Decision Making and Practical Outcomes 

Part 3: Conclusions Potential for Further Research

Oriel Prizeman is a RIBA Accredited Conservation Architect trained at Cambridge and the Architectural Association. She ran her own practice focusing on work to listed houses in the Cambridge area from 1996-2012 and has established a new MSc in Sustainable Building Conservation at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff in September 2013.