Sustainable Building Conservation

SevenFour case studies demonstrating the impacts of energy conservation in traditional domestic buildings

Oriel Prizeman

Introduction

This chapter presents two pairs of case studies that deliver performance upgrades, ‘seen and unseen’, to both built fabric and systems with differing degrees of visibility. The range and contrast between them justifies the need to develop a relational overview of contextual considerations in order to evaluate properly the trajectory of altering building performance for historic buildings. Our methods of evaluating energy use are based on calculation; our methods of evaluating significance are based on comparison and an estimation of rarity.¹ Our presumptions of occupant behaviour for existing buildings are ...