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![Fabric Improvements for Energy Efficiency](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/6872c092-d5b9-4f34-8e4e-a59100fa98c1/fabric-improvements-traditional%20buildings.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Short Guide: Fabric Improvements for Energy Efficiency
Short Guide 1
A series of practical solutions to improving energy efficiency in traditional and historic buildings.
![Improving Energy Efficiency in Traditional Buildings](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/88ba5ac8-d40d-41ff-a531-a59500bd05d5/inform-energy-efficiency.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Inform Guide: Improving Energy Efficiency in Traditional Buildings
An INFORM guide to what can be done to improve energy efficiency in traditional buildings, and how this relates to building standards.
Guide to Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
This guide looks into the thermal retrofit of traditional buildings to improve their energy performance, through a range of fabric improvements measures to different elements of a structure.
![Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in Traditional Buildings](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/6275bfcf-40cf-47b2-81f8-a59400e211fc/technicalpaper6.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Technical Paper 06
Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in Traditional Buildings
A scoping study on indoor air quality and efficiency in traditional buildings.
![Refurbishment Case Study 7](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/1d941002-f7fd-41f3-8fe2-a71d00b1489f/refurb-case-study-7-cover.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Refurbishment Case Study 7
Scotstarvit Tower Cottage, Cupar - Thermal Upgrades and Installation of Radiant Heating
This case study describes energy efficiency upgrades to a detached rural building.
![Embodied energy considerations](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/7f6d5682-b598-4fc0-b8e8-a59400b7112c/technicalpaper13.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Technical Paper 13
Embodied energy considerations
A technical paper outlining the importance of life cycle analysis in assessing the sustainability of new buildings and maintaining existing buildings.
![Energy Modelling in Traditional Scottish Houses](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/c63d14bb-925f-4976-87c9-a59400e05ecb/technicalpaper4.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Technical Paper 04
Energy Modelling in Traditional Scottish Houses
A paper looking at energy modelling for three typical traditionally built dwellings in Scotland.
![Green Deal, Energy Company Obligation and traditional buildings](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/40433c37-f0f5-41fe-9197-a59400a9952d/technicalpaper17.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Technical Paper 17
Green Deal, Energy Company Obligation and traditional buildings
This paper models comprehensive upgrades for three traditional property types and identifies financial opportunities for financial support through the Green Deal.
![Refurbishment Case Study 8](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/9f211817-0dba-4530-89f7-a71d00b20d8b/refurb-case-study-8-cover.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Refurbishment Case Study 8
Garden Bothy, Cumnock
A case study describing efficiency upgrade works to a two-storey stone building.