6. Adapting buildings: further resources
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Tools and resources
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Climate Just Link |
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Adapting UK dwellings to reduce overheating during heatwaves: Retrofit Advice Tool (CREW) Aimed at designers, decision makers and householders to support the assessment of options for retrofitting homes based on property type and characteristics. |
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD) and De Montfort University.
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Adapting Buildings Online Tool |
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Heatwave plan for England Website with the latest documents and plans for heat wave events in England |
Health and Social Care Sector Report and Actions |
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Heatwave Plan for Scotland Website with the materials to support planning for, and responding to, heat wave events in Scotland |
Safer Scotland |
Health and Social Care Sector
Report and Actions |
Heatwave Plan fror Scotland |
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Heatwave Plan for Wales Website with the latest documents and plans for heat wave events in Wales |
Welsh Government |
Health and Social Care Sector
Report and Actions |
Heatwave Plan for Wales |
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Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC) Toolkit Aimed at anyone with a role in supporting health and social care for older people. Resources cover understanding needs and protecting infrastructure. |
Durham University |
Health and Social Care Online Tool |
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Guidance on flood protection products Provides information on likely costs and links to other information sources such as the Flood Protection Association, associated professional bodies and the Kitemark accreditation scheme |
Environment Agency
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Online |
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National Flood Forum Information about property level adaptations and other ways to build flood resilience, including the Blue Pages directory of available services and products. These should be read in conjunction with the Environment Agency’s own guidance. |
National Flood Forum |
Online |
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Property Care Association information about the different types of flooding associated with residential and commercial buildings and a range of possible technical response measures which can be used. |
Property Care Association (Flood Protection Group) |
Online |
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Overheating in Homes Supports the comparison of different adaptation options |
Zero Carbon Hub (2013) |
High temperatures Report |
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Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA) has published a number of climate change toolkits, including on Designing for Flood Risk |
RIBA (various) |
Report-based toolkit |
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Legal Rights and Duties relating to flooding for property owners Covers the legal framework, frequently asked questions and a set of further resources |
UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) |
Online summary of points of environmental law |
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Six Steps to Flood Resilience Designed to address the lack of easy-to-use guidance to support the use of novel flood resilience measures in planning, this resource provides a process to follow and resources for further information |
Building Research Establishment, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Manchester |
Cross-cutting Guidance document |
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Governments Soft Landing for built asset procurement. Guidance for setting up performance related payment schedules which can be used to ensure the effectiveness of adaptation measures. |
Building Information Modelling Task Group |
Guidance, resources and case studies. |
Reports
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Developer |
Type of Resource |
Link |
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Adaptation by Design Provides a concise and easy-to-understand introduction to solutions at building, neighbourhood and conurbation scale. |
Town and Country Planning Association (2011) |
Report |
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Adapting Buildings: a literature review A more general introduction into the range of social and technical considerations when adapting buildings for climate change can be found here |
Ecocities (2011) |
Report |
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Beating the Heat |
UKCIP(2005) |
Report |
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Building Comfort for Older Age: Designing and managing thermal comfort in low carbon housing for older people. A report on improving the thermal comfort of older people (including overheating and coldness) in a range of settings gives recommendations and potential solutions depending on the type of living arrangement, for example, care homes, extra-care homes and private dwellings |
Various (2013) |
Report |
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Investigation into Overheating in Homes Literature Review |
DCLG |
Report |
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Overheating in Homes Supports the comparison of different adaptation options |
Zero Carbon Hub (2013) |
High temperatures Report |
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Present and future flood vulnerability, risk and disadvantage: A UK scale assessment. Recent assessment of flood risk, including a consideration of the exposure of new developments and adaptations.
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Sayers & Partners LLP report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation | Report | Present and future flood vulnerability, risk and disadvantage: A UK scale assessment |
Case studies
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Developer |
Type of Resource |
Link |
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Adaptation in Action Case Studies Brief summaries of various adaptation measures, including building resilience and green infrastructure measures for homes and other building types. |
Environment Agency |
Set of online case studies |
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Design for Future Climate (D4FC) competition: project outputs for Phases 1 and 2: Fact sheet and a map of the location of adapted buildings. |
Innovate UK |
Set of case study fact sheets |
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Technology Strategy Board Case Studies Summaries of technological solutions and building adaptations to flood, heat and other climate-related hazards. Also see their Knowledge Summaries |
Innovate UK Knowledge Exchange Network |
Online case studies (registration required for full access) |
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Starting up a flood action group, Flood Action4 Buckingham An example of one of the 160+ flood action groups supported which bring communities together, support people through the preparation process and provide a point of contact for the variety of agencies that help to manage flooding |
Climate Just team with Roger Parkinson |
Internal case study Flood action groups |
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Community flood warden scheme – Doncaster How communities and service providers in Doncaster were able to learn from flooding events in 2007 in order to develop a community flood warden scheme in affected areas. |
Climate Just team with Rosalind McDonagh, Doncaster Borough Council |
Internal case study Community Flood Warden Schemes |
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Case study of adapting social housing. Includes information about the process followed for identifying priorities and formulating plans for adapting a 4000 strong housing stock |
Octavia Housing |
Online case study (external) |
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Your social housing in a changing climate Worked example of a retrofit of a residential tower block used for social housing. The retrofit covered issues of over-heating, water scarcity and flooding |
Arup study on behalf of the Three Regions Climate Group and published by London Climate Change Partnership |
Case study aimed at social housing providers |
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