Chapter Ten Recent Approaches to the Sustainable Retrofit of Victorian Houses
SOFIE PELSMAKERS AND DAVID KROLL
Sustainable retrofit has received considerable policy and media attention in recent years. The urgent need to improve the energy-efficiency of existing housing has been widely acknowledged and is part of the UK and EU agenda to reduce CO2 emissions.1 Victorian and pre-1919 houses in general make up a large share of the existing housing stock in the UK. Their retrofit therefore plays a key role in achieving these energy-efficiency targets.
This chapter discusses recent approaches to the retrofit of Victorian houses in order to understand better their architectural implications and ambitions. As Andrew Saint suggests in this book’s Preface, ...
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