This event is open to anyone with an interest in maintaining and adapting their historic building to address climate change. Owners and occupiers of historic buildings are often the first to experience the impacts of our changing climate. Discover your options for energy efficient upgrades, tools to retrofit your building, and the planning consents you might need to do so. To pre-book one of the three free timeslots, please visit the Eventbrite link below.

Together with partners from the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance and Home Energy Scotland, Historic Environment Scotland will host a series of short talks on key principles and the measures required for the adaptation of historic buildings. Topics covered will include the circular economy, planning and consenting, conservation retrofit and renewables. At the end of each talk, there will be room to engage with our experts through questions and further discussion.There will also be demonstrations on the use of traditional materials for energy efficiency upgrades, as well as on-line tools for the retrofit of your building. Information from our exemplar retrofit project at the Holyrood Park Lodge will also be shared.

SpACE stands for Space for Architecture, Carbon and Environment. It is a recent public platform located at the old Lauriston Fire Station, which is now a part of the Edinburgh College of Art Building. This exhibition space will allow people to engage with topics related to design and the built environment in the setting of achieving net-zero carbon by 2030.

1100 Introduction and welcome Roger Curtis, Historic Environment Scotland

1105 Planning and Listed Building Consent Steven Robb, Historic Environment Scotland

1130 The Circular economy and the existing building stock Katie Carter, Historic Environment Scotland

1200 Conservation Retrofit: cost, conservation and carbon Roger Curtis, Historic Environment Scotland

1230 Questions and discussion

1300 Lunch break

1400 Embodied Energy for Homeowners – The STBA Retrofit Planning Tool Brian Murphy, Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance

1435 Getting a good SAP score - Energy Performance Certificates explained Kenneth Easson, Historic Environment Scotland

1450 Questions and discussion

1505 Break

1530 Home Energy Scotland Support for Homeowners Felicity Tolley, Energy Saving Trust

1545 Beyond Fabric – Building Energy Provision and Management Jon Cape, Power Circle Projects

1600 Renewables options at Holyrood Park Lodge Kenneth Easson, Historic Environment Scotland

1625 Display Viewing HES Training Rigs, STBA Retrofit Planning Tool, Community Housing Trust Projects

1700 Close

Alternative text for image: A thermal image of Cockburn St Roofs