Thomas, Helen;
Marincioni, Valentina;
Orr, Scott Allan;
(2025)
Scalable approaches to moisture risk assessment for historic buildings in a climate-changed era.
UCL Open Environment: UCL Press; 2025: Portugal..
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Abstract
In response to global warming, climate change risk assessments for cultural heritage should be applicable not only to iconic sites but to all historic buildings. Risk assessments should function at the material, site, and regional scale. Increasing days of heavy precipitation will have severe impacts for historic buildings, for example stressing rain-water goods. To evaluate this hazard, changing occurrences of extreme precipitation events have been calculated for the UK with 1.5 °C and 3 °C of warming using the National Severe Weather Warning Service thresholds. By integrating the materials of the over 380,000 listed buildings in England, this assessment explores how moisture damage processes can be translated to thousands of sites, informing regional prioritisation.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Scalable approaches to moisture risk assessment for historic buildings in a climate-changed era |
| Event: | 3rd International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB25) |
| Location: | Guimarães, Portugal |
| Dates: | 23 Oct 2025 - 24 Oct 2025 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.icmb25.a20 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.icmb25.a20 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | historic environment, climate adaptation, moisture risk, climate migration, regional risk assessment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS 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/10218504 |
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