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Inform Guide: Timber Staircases
This INFORM guide covers the construction of timber staircases and issues associated with their repair and maintenance.
Inform Guide: Timber Window Shutters
This INFORM guide highlights the benefits of traditional wooden window shutters.

Inform Guide: Ventilation in Traditional Houses
INFORM guide on the importance of ventilation in a traditionally built structure.

Literature Review - Mortars in Historic Buildings
A literature review focusing on published research regarding mortar materials.
Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies
Historic and Traditional Buildings
This document contains information to support anyone producing, revising or working with Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES) in relation to traditional buildings and the historic built environment.

MacFarlane's Castings, Volumes 1 & 2
Saracen Foundry, Glasgow
A volume celebrating the legacy of one of Scotland's most successful and internationally renowned industrial firms of the 1800s.
Make it with Paper: Scotland's Historic Places
Build some of Scotland's amazing historic places - with paper!

Managing Change in the Historic Environment: Accessibility
This guidance note sets out the principles that apply to developments for improving physical access to the historic environment.

Managing Change in the Historic Environment: Boundaries
This guidance note sets out the principles that apply to altering the boundary treatments of historic buildings.