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Design for Biodiversity
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Design for Biodiversity

by Kelly Gunnell, Carol Williams, Brian Murphy
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
136 pages
7h 19m
English
RIBA Publishing
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Chapter FourDesigning for biodiversity in existing buildings

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This chapter introduces the need and urgency for the existing building stock to be upgraded with extensive energy efficiency refurbishments, the programmes that government is using to drive this change and how this could reduce the potential roost and nest spaces for some species. It introduces some of the complications of working with both ‘historic fabric’ and more recent building methods and describes some of the potential solutions.

Birds and bats are protected under various pieces of UK and European legislation (see Chapter 2). If protected species are known (or suspected) to ...

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ISBN: 9781000705126