What is the scale of the challenge and options for addressing 'hard to treat' properties (e.g. heritage, solid wall) in the context of net zero?

Related UKRI funded projects

• Creating a national integrated mobile and fixed lab for collections, historic buildings and sites

  Climate change poses significant challenges for the preservation of collections, historic buildings and sites. Changing environmental conditions accelerate the deterioration of materials whilst the heritage sector is a s...

  Funded by: Infrastructure Fund

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project addresses the challenge of 'hard to treat' properties in the context of net zero by focusing on the preservation of historic buildings and sites, analyzing environmental conditions, and improving energy efficiency.

• Rejuvenation of the Heritage Science Lab at Heriot Watt University

  Since the 1990s the research lab at Heriot-Watt University has engaged in research to understand the decay, maintenance, repair, energy usage, carbon footprint and conservation of historic buildings. Whilst this research...

  Funded by: Infrastructure Fund

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project focuses on understanding and analyzing cementitious materials for repair and conservation of historic buildings, directly addressing the challenge of 'hard to treat' properties in the context of net zero.

• An integrated typology-based approach to guide the future development of European historic buildings towards a clean energy transition

  The process of future proofing the built heritage faces the paradox of needing standardised approaches but having a heterogeneous stock with very specific needs. FUTURHIST will rely on the identification and characterisa...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project offers an integrated typology-based approach to guide the development of European historic buildings towards a clean energy transition, addressing challenges and providing tailored intervention approaches for energy efficiency and conservation.

• PARNASSUS: Ensuring integrity, preserving significance: value based flood resilience for protection of cultural heritage from climate change impact

  The proposal develops an interdisciplinary system to quantify risk of historic buildings and archaeological sites to driving rain and flooding as caused by climate change; it will evaluate structural vulnerability by def...

  Funded by: AHRC

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project addresses the challenge of 'hard to treat' properties in the context of net zero by developing an interdisciplinary system to quantify risk of historic buildings and archaeological sites to driving rain and flooding as caused by climate change, proposing adaptation strategies for increased resilience against loss of significance.

• Coherent, Acceptable, Low Emission Cultural Heritage Efficient Renovation

  Historic buildings represents a considerable share of the European building stock (around 25%). They contribute to the identity and uniqueness of many cities and will only survive if they are maintained as a living space...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

• Climate change and the greening of masonry: implications for built heritage and new build

  SUMMARYThere is increasingly compelling evidence that stone decay environments vary significantly across the British Isles, and that these climatic and pollution regimes are themselves changing as, for example, climate i...

  Funded by: EPSRC

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project focuses on the impacts of climate change on masonry decay and conservation, which is not directly related to the challenge of 'hard to treat' properties in the context of net zero.

• Inclusive and Sustainable Solutions Towards a Low-Emission Cultural Heritage

  Culture heritage - tangible and intangible - can be understood as a reservoir of creativity, well-being, identity and knowledge that is useful to overcome present and future challenges. The cultural value attributed to o...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee