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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.

Identifying and Recording Scotland's Prehistoric Rock Art

This guide is aimed at those interested in looking for and recording Prehistoric Rock Art in Scotland

Short Guide 14: Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders

A guide to complying with fire safety legislation in the context of historic and traditional buildings.

Short Guide 15: Air Source Heat Pumps in Traditional Buildings

A guide on considerations around installing air source heat pumps in traditional buildings, the policy background and best practice case studies.

Short Guide: Climate Change Adaptation for Traditional Buildings

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

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

Short Guide: Lead Theft - Guidance on Protecting Traditional Buildings

Practical guidance on Protecting Traditional Buildings.

Short Guide: Lime Mortars in traditional buildings

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

Short Guide: Maintaining Your Home

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

Short Guide: Maintenance and Repair Techniques for Traditional Cast Iron

A guide to maintaining exterior decorative architectural cast ironwork.

Short Guide: Micro-Renewables in the Historic Environment

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

Short Guide: Repair and Maintenance of War Memorials

Information on the architectural styles and designs of war memorials most often found in Scotland.

Short Guide: Sash and Case Windows

Information regarding the maintenance and repair of sash and case windows.

Short Guide: Scottish Traditional Shopfronts

Information on traditional shopfronts, and their relationships with towns and cities.