July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
9h 33m
English
Content preview from Sustainable Building Conservation
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Introduction
The engagement of concerns regarding sustainability and building conservation has had a long incubation. Government initiatives such as the Green Deal bring urgency for the issue to be addressed and understood by architects not simply in technical but also in philosophical terms. Internationally, focus is drawn to the challenges of developing conservation strategies against the tide of new development. Unlike the period of development that took place during the Industrial Revolution in the UK, the climate change agenda focuses on issues of conservation in its broadest terms and lends the debate serious responsibility in the context of contemporary global development.
Context
The 2013 UNESCO Hangzhou Declaration ...