Technical Tuesdays: Technical Conservation Webinars

Join us to learn more about managing the impacts of climate change on the historic environment and the work Historic England has been doing on understanding climate hazards. This webinar will introduce the results of two recent projects on climate change hazards that cause damage or loss for heritage, such as sea level rise, heat waves, and soil heave. The aim of both projects was to define these hazards and their data sources for heritage. This webinar will be of particular interest to local authority historic environment teams and those managing the impacts of climate change on heritage more generally.

Speaker - Joanne Williams, Helen Thomas, Scott Orr, Phil Carlisle

Joanne Williams is a Conservation Accredited Building Surveyor working in the Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation team in Technical Conservation. She specialises in conservation, regulations and adaptation of historic buildings to climate change, with a particular focus on flooding.

Helen Thomas is a collaborative doctoral student between Historic England and the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage. Helen is part of the research group Heritage Environmental Risk and Data Analytics (HERADA) at UCL and is an affiliate member of the UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings.

Dr Scott Allan Orr is a lecturer at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage. He leads the Heritage, Environmental Risk and Data Analytics (HERADA) research group.

Phil Carlisle is a Senior Data Standards Specialist at Historic England. He advises on the use of data standards and controlled vocabularies in recording systems and is the chair of the FISH Terminology Working Group.