Transcript Heritage Assets & Low Carbon Renovation – Experiences from

Heritage Assets & Low Carbon
Renovation – Experiences from a
joint project of Kirklees Council &
Leeds City Council
RTPI Conference: Emerging contexts
for Heritage and Conservation 2011.
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Matt Bentley
Senior Conservation Officer
Sustainable Development Unit
Leeds City Council.
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Joanne Needham
Conservation & Design Officer
Investment & Regeneration Service
Kirklees Council.
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Brief Introduction to our project
• Regional project lead by Leeds City Council and Kirklees Council
• Part of a wider project on up-skilling local governments in climate
change
• Specifically leading on the role Heritage Assets can play in the battle
against climate change
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Overview of project origins
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What is RIEP?
Where is the funding from?
What RIEP streams were identified for up-skilling professionals?
Why was heritage identified as a key theme?
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National policy
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Key objectives
Behaviours & performance
• Behaviour and performance of historic buildings
• Behaviour of users
Historic environment
• Designated assets (Significance)
• Undesignated assets (Local distinctiveness & sense of place)
Promote & advocate
• A holistic approach (Understanding the behaviour and performance
of the building and its users should inform any
upgrading/improvements NOT a piecemeal approach)
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Target audience
• Building owners & users
• Politicians
• Built environment professionals (Planners, Architects, Surveyors,
Engineers etc)
• Building industry
• Suppliers of suitable products and services (both ‘heritage’ and
‘green’)
• Educational institutions (academic & vocational)
• Students
• Amenity and civic societies and other interested groups/bodies
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Project outputs
• Guidance & training module (web-based resource) to be delivered
via RIEP
• Good practice case studies (designated assets)
• Preparation of brief for ‘exemplar’ building case studies
(behavioural & performance monitoring before and after works)
• Toolkit
• Guidance of ways to improve typical undesignated assets
• Professional educational event via HELM (June 2011)
• Public awareness event (June 2011)
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Progress to date
• Best practice? - struggling with case studies
• June events - coming together, working with HELM, lots of interest
• Exemplar work - due to go out to tender for exemplar & working on
'toolkit'
• Guidance and training – questionnaire released, but responses
limited
• Building up a good network of contacts and interest of various
groups and individuals
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Our experience
• The project has, and continues to, receive a lot of interest by all
those contacted thus far by ourselves and others are also
registering their interest who have heard about the project through
other channels
• Caution - many projects that have been self-promoted as
‘exemplars’ in terms of building conservation have been
harmful/damaging
• There is a need for a more co-ordinated approach regionally and
nationally
• Lots of work being undertaken, but not much of it known about
outside of specialist circles
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Our experience
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There are only 8 months from November 2010 – June 2011!
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Desired results
• Hope to help to raise awareness of the subject and continue the
dialogue with the interested parties
• Hope to create new links between interested parties and
strengthen existing links and relationships
• Hope to see a reduction in our carbon footprint by providing useful
outcomes that will assist people in making informed decisions
• Hope that this project will just be the beginning and lead to further
work and projects
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Get involved
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We welcome your comments both positive and negative
We welcome ideas and offers of involvement
Can you suggest any good practice case studies?
What are your thoughts on the planned ‘toolkit’ designed to assist
owners and agents?
• Who & what would you like to see at the education day (HELM)?
• What would you want to see in the training module (RIEP)?
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Events
• Education day – June, details to be announced.
• Public awareness event – June, details to be announced.
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Thank you
Contact details
Matt Bentley
[email protected]
0113 2478145
Joanne Needham
[email protected]
01484 225800
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