We hope you and your families are keeping safe during this still uncertain time. Also, we hope that you have managed to have a summer break.
First, we would like to remind you of the BS5250 public consultation. Please submit your comment directly to the BSi website (link to Draft for Public Consultation). The deadline is on the 9th of September. We are also preparing a joint UKCMB response, so if you want to be part of it, please get in contact with us ASAP.
‘CPD Certificate in Hygrothermal Risk Assessment’ - Dublin School of Architecture in Technological University Dublin
Investigation on the performance of solid walls with water-repellent surface treatments
As always, we want to thank you for your continuing interest and support. All the best,
Hector Altamirano
Academic director of UKCMB
BS5250 public consultation
BS 5250 has been released for public consultation and will be open for comments until 9 September 2020. BS5250 is the code of practice for control of condensation in buildings and gives guidance on the risks associated with excessive humidity in buildings. Please share the link below within your organisation.
1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21)
The submission deadline for the 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) has now been extended to 15 November. The conference will be held on 28-29 June 2021, and aims to bring together academics, industry and researchers working on any aspect of moisture-induced damage on the built environment.
All extended abstracts will be electronically printed at ScienceOpen as the ICMB21 proceedings collection, and assigned a Crosref DOI and a CC BY 4.0 attribution license. Outstanding extended abstracts will be published in an open access publication at the Special Issue on Moisture in Buildings at UCL Open: Environment, a new broad scope and multidisciplinary open science journal dedicated to environment-related inter/cross-disciplinary research published by UCL Press.
The performance of solid walls with water-repellent surface treatments We are delighted to announce that a new doctoral researcher will join UCL to investigate the performance of solid walls with water-repellent surface treatments. The student is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment (ERBE CDT) and co-funded by Safeguard and the Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings. This project aims to investigate the long-term hygrothermal performance of solid walls with water-repellent surface treatments.
CPD Certificate in Hygrothermal Risk Assessment The Dublin School of Architecture in Technological University Dublin hosts the only academically-certified CPD for building design professionals wishing to upskill in hygrothermal risk assessment in the British Isles. The CPD Certificate in Hygrothermal Risk Assessment is one module of the nested MSc in Building Performance (Energy Efficiency in Design). The programme and module are designed to facilitate 'serious' upskilling of busy building design professionals. The module has an online delivery and is taught part-time over 6 weeks within an academic semester.
In the Spring of 2020 thirty-six students of the Master and seven additional CPD students were taught hygrothermal risk assessment. The CPD students were based in the UK, Spain and New South Wales, Australia.
