Publications

Building with Scottish Stone

This guide aims to encourage use of stone sourced from Scotland’s working quarries and to provide a better understanding of those mineralogical properties that give each stone its distinctive quality.

Guide to Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings

This guide looks into the thermal retrofit of traditional buildings to improve their energy efficiency, through a range of fabric improvements measures to different elements of a structure.

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.

Short Guide: Historic Concrete in Scotland Parts 1-3

Short Guide 5

These short guides focus on the subject of historic concrete structures in Scotland.

Short Guide: Lead Theft - Guidance on Protecting Traditional Buildings

Short Guide 2

Practical guidance on Protecting Traditional Buildings.

Short Guide: Lime Mortars in traditional buildings

Short Guide 6

A background to the history and use of lime mortars in traditional buildings.

Short Guide: Maintaining Your Home

Short Guide 9

Maintenance advice for homeowners and those responsible for the maintenance of traditional buildings.

Short Guide: Maintenance and Repair Techniques for Traditional Cast Iron

Short Guide 4

A guide to maintaining exterior decorative architectural cast ironwork.

Short Guide: Micro-Renewables in the Historic Environment

Short Guide 8

Information on the use of micro-renewables in the historic environment.