Rhee-Duverne, S;
McCaig, I;
Orr, S;
Zhang, H;
Viles, HA;
(2021)
Assessing moisture in porous traditional building materials.
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Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2021.
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Abstract
Historic England is often asked for advice on damp problems in historic and traditional buildings. Whilst many different methods are commonly used to assess damp problems in walls, all have some drawbacks. There is lack of agreement over how they should be used and little information about how they compare one with another. This project developed a common methodology in the laboratory to compare the performance of a range of invasive and non-invasive moisture measurement methods used to assess moisture in porous masonry. The findings suggested that most of the measurement techniques can provide good semi-quantitative estimates of moisture levels in porous traditional building materials.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Assessing moisture in porous traditional building materials |
| Event: | 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2021 (ICMB21) |
| Location: | Online |
| Dates: | 28 June 2021 - 29 June 2021 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14293/icmb210054 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.14293/icmb210054 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source. |
| Keywords: | Moisture measurement, invasive and non-invasive techniques, traditional porous building materials, gravimetric testing |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129187 |
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