Dear UKCMB member,
Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the UKCMB newsletter. In this newsletter, we cover:
If you have a suggestions, news, or events you'd like to include in a future newsletter, please email ucfthal@ucl.ac.uk
As always, we want to thank you for your continuing interest and support.
All the best,
Hector Altamirano
Academic director of UKCMB
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UKCMB Annual Conference 2020 - ‘A moisture safe future –what should we be talking about?’ (online)
On the 4th December, the UKCMB will host its 2020 Annual conference. The conference will focus on the future of moisture safety and management and will have the participation of expert guest speakers from national and international institutions.
The conference will be online (09:40 am to 13:10 pm).
Confirmed speakers are:
- Hartwig Kunzel, head of Department of Hygrothermics, Fraunhofer Institute
- Jon Denyer, Chairman of the B/540 BSI standard and principal Scientist at BBA
- Hunter Danskin, Head of Technical Energy Analysis at the Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Colin King, ex-Director of BRE and UKCMB Commercial Director
The conference is free to attend. We hope that you and your colleagues will join us for this event, to learn about our research and training activities, to help us shape the work of the UKCMB for the coming years, and to help us promote moisture-safe building and retrofit across our industries.
Please register before the 25th November. All bookings will be acknowledged and joining instructions will be circulated before the event.
Register for the event here or visit our website for further information.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference, UKCMB management team.
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Understanding and Managing Moisture Risks in Buildings part of PCA and CIBSE Training portfolios
We are delighted to announce that the course developed by UKCMB on “Understanding and Managing Moisture Risks in Buildings” has been added to the training portfolios of both PCA and CIBSE. The next courses are on:
This course developed for building professionals will help you understand moisture risks in buildings and how to manage them. The course aims to create a safer and healthier built environment by disseminating knowledge, skills and good practice to help you identify, assess and manage moisture risks in the design, construction and retrofit of buildings.
The course is based around the four principles set out in Moisture in buildings: an integrated approach to risk assessment and guidance by Neil May and Chris Sanders (BSI, London, 2018) and in the forthcoming new edition of BS 5250 Control of condensation in buildings. These principles, known as ‘the four Cs’, are:
- Context: understanding the building’s history, setting, construction, condition, occupancy pattern, etc.
- Coherence: adopting a consistent, integrated, whole-building approach to all aspects of new-build and retrofit.
- Caution: identifying, assessing and managing moisture risks, and, where knowledge is limited, erring on the side of caution.
- Capacity: ensuring adequate capacity in building systems rather than over-optimising to allow for unexpected or changing circumstances.
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PROcesses for sustainable retrofit of Traditional dwellings in Turkey for Climate-resilience, Conservation and Comfort (PROT3CT)
UKCMB’s new two-year research project “PROT3CT’ has just been launched in partnership with Middle East Technical University (METU), STBA and Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation of Turkey.
The specific objectives of PROT3CT are to identify cost-effective packages of improvement options to enhance the energy performance of traditional dwelling typologies in Turkey, help increase awareness of residents, custodians of heritage, policymakers and academia of climate resiliency, and provide knowledge exchange to establish sustainable impact and collaborative links. The project will bring together major stakeholders of energy efficiency and heritage conservation with several inter-sectoral capacity building and consultation workshops. Five case study towns in different local climate zones in Turkey were selected for on-site monitoring, physical and resident surveys, and field testing. The data collected from these will then be used to develop rigorous building performance models to identify the energy performance baseline and the performance gap and to develop solutions to then share and discuss with the stakeholders.
The 1st PROT3CT Workshop on Climatic Impact on Heritage Structures and Community Engagement for Conservation will be held on the 10th November. The details will be announced in due course.
For more information on PROT3CT email Dr Yasemin D. Aktas: y.aktas@ucl.ac.uk
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CPD Certificate in Hygrothermal Risk Assessment
The research carried out by UKCMB’s affiliate doctoral students is key in the process of understanding moisture risk and safety in buildings. The work they have undertaken will help support training, guidance and the general advice we provide to the public but also it will inform policy, standards and practice.
If you want to know more about their research visit: https://ukcmb.org/who-we-are/ukcmb-affiliates/
Please contact us, if you want to be part of this superb group of doctoral researchers and our UKCMB community.
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