Engineering Historic Futures EHF

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Engineering Historic Futures (EHF)

• Aim
• To address adaptation of historic environments to
  moisture-related climate change by looking at
  what happens when water penetrates the fabric of
  historic buildings, and how buildings can be best
  dried
• Description
• Field monitoring of real historic buildings that
  have suffered water damage
• Laboratory measurements of fabric moisture
  penetration on brick and stone test walls
• Develop computer-based drying model
• Socio-economic evaluation of different
  adaptation strategies

Drying through stripping back plaster, which
destroys part of the historic plasterBlickling
Hall, Norfolk
EHF is part of the Building Knowledge for a
Changing Climate initiative, led by EPSRC and
UKCIP
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Engineering Historic Futures (EHF)

• Outputs
• Report of detailed investigations of moisture
  profiles through different fabric structures
• A combined building and fabric, transient heat
  conduction and moisture movement model
• Guidance on drying historic buildings for use by
  heritage professionals as well as the wider
  public
• End date March 2006

Brick wall and sandstone wall in environmental
chamber
Contact May Cassar at m.cassar_at_ucl.ac.uk or visit
www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainableheritage/research/Histori
cFutures