Description: The webinar will consider different types of building performance monitoring that can help to inform a retrofit project. The focus will be on hygrothermal monitoring and the measurement of U-values, along with air leakage and thermographic survey techniques. These methods will be described using examples from Holyrood Park Lodge, Edinburgh, which was recently retrofitted by Historic Environment Scotland, among others.

About the Speaker: In 2011, Caroline, along with Cameron Scott, co-founded ArchiMetrics Ltd, a building performance research company. ArchiMetrics uses in situ monitoring to develop knowledge of building performance by measuring real buildings, in use. The company specialises in many aspects of building performance including; interstitial moisture behaviour, fabric heat losses, air leakage and indoor air quality. Our work often uses bespoke equipment and innovative measurement and analysis techniques in order to explore building performance beyond the limitations of methods which use ‘off the shelf’ products. In this way we hope to be able to measure almost anything (!) and tailor our approach to address specific performance questions providing work with a high degree of detail and integrity. ArchiMetrics has carried out work for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), Historic Environment Scotland, Trinity College, Cambridge, St Johns’ College, Oxford, Peabody Housing Association and Saint Gobain amongst others. Caroline is a member of the SPAB Technical Panel and one of the Sustainable Traditional Building Alliance’s (STBA) ‘panel of experts’, co-author of their Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings Report and part of the team that created the on-line retrofit Guidance Wheel.