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Short Guide: Applied Digital Documentation in the Historic Environment
Short Guide 13
Discover how a broad range of data capture techniques can be applied to the recording, analysis, conservation and visualisation of the historic environment.
![Climate Change Adaptation for Traditional Buildings](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/402773ce-ba61-4452-9d2b-a7ac00ae3268/Short%20Guide%2011%20Climate%20Change%20Adaptation.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Short Guide: Climate Change Adaptation for Traditional Buildings
Short Guide 11
The key aspects of the exterior of a traditional building and considers how these can be improved or adapted to increase a building’s resilience to extreme weather events caused by climate change.
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Signal Boxes
This booklet provides a glimpse of the history, special interest and way of life associated with signal boxes.
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Staircasing and Handrailing
A guide to the design of construction of staircases and handrails.
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Stone Working Machinery
The first work published in Britain on the conversion of stone by machinery.
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Stone in Scotland
Part of an international series of publications, this volume describes stone resources in different parts of the world.
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Sunnybrae Cottage
A research report bringing together findings of several years of building investigation and research on Sunnybrae Cottage.
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TAN 12 - Quarries of Scotland
A guide to Scottish geology and stone working methods.
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TAN 13 - The Archaeology of Scottish Thatch
A guide to applying archaeological techniques to thatch and thatching in Scotland.