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Investigating the appropriate thermal upgrading of traditional buildings

Project Insights

  • €547,763

    Total Project Costs
  • 3 yr

    Project Duration
  • 2023

    Year Funded

Project Description

The objective of Retrofit of TradFabs is to provide knowledge and increased certainty around the appropriate thermal upgrading of solid masonry walls and traditional windows and doors. Building on previous work in the FabTrads project, this proposed research will test and analyse pre-and post-retrofit solid masonry walls to characterise the complex hydrothermal performance of the wall as a whole, thereby going beyond the characterisation of walls by individual materials.

Project Details

Total Project Cost: €547,763

Funding Agency: SEAI

Year Funded: 2023

Lead Organisation: University College Dublin

Partner Organisation(s): IGEO Spatial Modelling Limited

Collaborators: Department of Heritage, Department of Housing, Office of Public Works, Irish Georgian Society, ICOMOS Ireland NSCES+CC, Carrig Conservation

Oliver Kinnane

Lead Researcher