Traditional Building Skills and Building Conservation Courses and
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Traditional Building Skills and Building Conservation Courses and
Traditional Building Skills and Building Conservation Courses and Lectures April 2015 – March 2016 repair* background* Since 1997 the Historic Buildings and Conservation team at Essex County Council has run a series of one, two or three day hands-on courses in traditional building skills. We are the only council in the country to run this type of educational programme. The courses aim to raise awareness of the importance of protecting our historic buildings by using the appropriate methods and materials to repair and conserve them. Many of the courses are run from our workshop at Cressing Temple Barns but, where possible, we use sites throughout the county which enable our students to work on live projects. Our tutors are all excellent craftsmen who run their own businesses using their skills every day, and who have a wealth of experience and knowledge. Those attending the courses include owners of historic buildings, practising craftsmen who want to specialise in traditional repairs, and general builders and contractors as well as interested amateurs. Courses are open to all skill levels unless specified otherwise. Running alongside the hands-on courses is a range of CPD lecture sessions recognised by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC). Topics vary annually but their aim remains the same, to educate and inform professionals such as surveyors, architects, building contractors, self-employed tradesmen, plus the owners of historic buildings, in the technical and practical issues involved in the care and repair of our historic buildings. 1 bursary scheme City & Country is delighted to be able to support, again this year, this bursary scheme which helps address a lack of traditional building skills in the construction industry. By funding the bursary scheme and offering free places on a Traditional Building Skills courses, City & Country is proud to be playing an important role in expanding the knowledge and skills of craftsmen. City & Country is the market leading heritage developer in the South. From stylish apartments and duplexes to traditional mews houses, they offer an inspiring selection of homes. They have a reputation for creating outstanding developments and their schemes consistently win prestigious awards for design quality and exceptional craftsmanship. Most recently winning House Builder of the Year, Gold for Best Medium Housebuilder and Gold in the Best Renovation category at the esteemed WhatHouse? Awards. Current developments include: The Galleries, the former 19th Century Warley Hospital in Brentwood, Essex. Bentley Priory in Stanmore, the 17th Century Mansion House which housed Fighter Command during The Battle of Britain. The Garden Quarter in Bicester, Oxfordshire, which now occupies the former RAF Bicester buildings and grounds. Most recently City & Country has launched The General, the Grade II Listed, former Bristol General Hospital located on the waterfront and King Edward VII Estate which represents some of the finest Arts and Crafts architecture and landscaping in the country. With exciting upcoming projects upcoming in Bromley, Edinburgh, Bristol and Hampshire. The importance of tradesman with the skills and knowledge to revive these treasured buildings has never been so great. Read more at www.cityandcountry.co.uk The bursary scheme provides a unique opportunity for those already working in the industry to gain experience and understanding of craft building techniques relevant to historic buildings. This scheme covers the implicated costs of the course. It will be particularly suitable for independent builders or small contractors who are passionate about period buildings and restoration. To find out more about eligibility and applying for funding please contact Katie Seabright. Call 03330 136560 or Email [email protected] 2 hands on courses* Lime Plaster for Plasterers 23 – 24 April 2015, Little Clacton Tutor: Roy Cafferty, Traditional Lime Plastering This two-day hands-on course is aimed at working plasterers interested in broadening their experience, and amateurs with some plastering skills. The course will give students the opportunity to work on a listed building and will explain how to fix laths, prepare lime putty mixes, and plaster on to laths as well as highlighting the importance of good preparation and aftercare. Roy runs his own plastering business and has been in the trade for forty years. He works in all aspects of lime plaster but specialises in fine plaster finishes. He is one of the few lime plasterers who still runs mouldings in situ. Fee £215 An Introduction to Rustic Fencing 22 May 2015, Cressing Temple Barns Tutor: Steven Westover – Westover Woodlands Traditional locally made fencing may be more appropriate in the setting of a historic building or in a Conservation Area, more sustainable and more attractive than modern styles and materials, and cheaper and more satisfying if home made. The aim of this one-day course is to introduce participants to different styles of traditional natural wood fencing, including both theory and hands-on experience in the use of the tools and the choice and processing of materials.Students will be able to take home their finish panel. Fee £150 An Introduction to Wattle & Daub 11 – 12 June 2015, Great Saling This two-day course shows how to use traditional materials for infill panels in timber-framed buildings. It will include a look at the history of its use, mixing and practical application. The course is intended for people who want to broaden their experience into the area of conservation and repair. No experience needed. Fee £215 3 Repair and Conservation of Flint Walling 24 – 26 June 2015, St Botolph’s Church, Hadstock Tutor: Simon Williams, Anglian Flint Students on this three-day course will repair and rebuild a churchyard wall using flints and lime mortar. There will also be a demonstration of flint knapping with the opportunity to have a go. The course will be of interest to bricklayers, general builders and home owners. Simon is one of the country’s few remaining flint knappers, dealing with the repair and restoration of knapped flint walls as well as work on new developments. No experience needed. Fee £270 Lime Mortar & Conservation Brickwork 9 – 11 September 2015 Tutor: Mac Knox-Weir, Conservator and Consultancy This three-day course aims to encourage correct brickwork repair and the use of lime mortar. We will also look at a selection of different pointing styles. The course is aimed working bricklayers or those with experience who would like to broaden their knowledge in conservation techniques under the tutorage of Mac Knox-Weir, Mac has been working with brickwork for over 40 years and has worked on the repair of many high profile buildings including Hampton Court Palace. Cost £270 Timber Frame Repairs 8 – 10 July 2015, Little Horkesley Tutor: Rick Lewis, Traditional Oak Company Ltd This course will offer you the rare opportunity to learn new skills while working on a traditional timber-framed building. The focus will be on increasing awareness of the need to continue working with traditional materials in a traditional style to ensure the survival and continuation of our built heritage and our craft skills. During the course we will analyse the repair strategy, look at how you choose the right timber, and carry out various repairs to the structural frame of the building. The course has been designed for working carpenters and joiners, but homeowners with basic skills are very welcome. Rick runs his own carpentry business working mainly in Suffolk where he has built up an excellent reputation for his high quality work on the historic buildings in the area. His work ranges from conservative repairs to ancient structures as well as new bespoke oak framed buildings. Fee £270 Lime Plaster for Beginners 23 October and 20 November 2015, Cressing Temple Barns Tutor: Roy Cafferty, Traditional Lime Plastering A one-day course, aimed at owners of historic buildings who want to tackle small patch repairs to their homes and those with no prior experience. The day will show how to hand-mix small amounts of lime plaster, and to repair or replace patches. Roy runs his own plastering business and has been in the trade for over forty years. He works in all aspects of lime plaster but specialises in fine plaster finishes. No experience needed. Fee £99 An Introduction to Traditional Brickwork Repair for Beginners 16 – 17 July 2015, Bures Baptist Church Tutor: Mac Knox-Weir, Conservator and Consultancy The course is aimed at beginners or home owners who would like to learn about using lime mortars, how to tackle areas of repointing and bricks that are spalling. No previous experience is necessary. Mac has been working with brickwork for over 40 years and has worked on the repair of many high profile buildings including Hampton Court Palace. Fee £215 4 Run Mouldings 25 – 26 February 2016 Cressing Temple Barns Tutor: Roy Cafferty, Traditional Lime Plastering A two-day practical course covering the art and craft of mouldings run in situ. The course will begin with a talk on lime, with an emphasis on ornamental work. We will look at interior, exterior and ornamental work and is a rare opportunity to work with our tutor Roy Cafferty. Roy runs his own plastering business and has been in the trade for over forty years. He works in all aspects of lime plaster but specialises in fine plaster finishes. He is one of the few lime plasterers who still run mouldings in situ. The course is open to working plasterers who want to broaden their experience, home owners and enthusiastic amateurs. No experience needed. Fee £215 5 Build Your Own Bread Oven 4 March 2016, Cressing Temple Barns Tutor: Tony Minter, Bulmer Brick & Tile and Mike Hogan Take outdoor cooking to the next level by learning how to build a traditional brick bread oven for your back garden. This course would be suitable for homeowners, or bricklayers and builders who would like to offer their clients something different. Fee £115 courses available at Orchard Barn, Suffolk Essex County Council has teamed up with Orchard Barn to run courses for those interested in finding out more about traditional building methods. These courses take place at the beautiful Orchard Barn in Far Ringshall, Mid Suffolk. An Introduction to Timber Frame Repairs 14 April 2015 This course will enable you to understand traditional carpentry joints, make an informed choice of timber, use authentic hand tools and undertake an analysis of repair strategy. The course is designed for homeowners, builders, architects, surveyors or anyone with an interest in learning how to preserve timber frame buildings, CPD certification is available from the Institute for Historic Building Conservation. Fee £95 special events Caring for Your Traditional Home Saturday 22 August 2015, Cressing Temple Barns This course will look at sympathetic methods of repair and show you how a simple maintenance programme can avoid many of the problems associated with historic buildings. We will look at why it is so important that your building can breathe, how and why you should give your home an annual health check, and give you basic advice on making your home more energy efficient. Fee £40 including lunch and refreshments Caring for the Parish Church Thursday 8 October 2015, Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford Parish Churches are our most notable historic buildings, being not only architecturally important but also symbols of the life and aspirations of the communities in which they stand. This series of lectures will help those involved in caring for church buildings through the labyrinth of legal controls and give advice on making them more comfortable and versatile buildings. Fee £25 including lunch In partnership with the Diocese of Chelmsford. Restoration Skills for Home-Owners and Professionals 18 – 21 May or 14 – 17 September 2015 This four-day course includes presentations, demonstrations and practical hands-on experience in repairs to timber frame, wattle and daub, lathe and plaster, brick, flint and clay lump, as well as how to tackle the issue of damp in the home. CPD certification is available from the Institute for Historic Building Conservation. Fee £385 6 7 CPD lecture programme Each lecture will consist of two one-hour talks. They will be of interest to architects, surveyors, conservation professionals and planners for specification writing and site supervision, as well as owners of historic and listed properties. A light lunch and refreshments are included. All lectures take place at Cressing Temple Barns unless otherwise stated. The IHBC recognises that this programme may provide part of the compulsory CPD requirements of a Full Member Understanding traditional brickwork 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 4 September 2015 Speaker: Peter Minter, Bulmer Brick and Tile Company Ltd The first of two courses be led by Peter Minter, a director of the family firm Bulmer Brick and Tile Ltd, a company formed in 1936 which produces bricks on a site where tiles were being made as early as the 15th century. Peter is a national authority on old brickwork, and has been involved in the repair of many famous historic buildings. In this first session, he will trace how bricks are made, from the digging of the clay moulding and firing them. He will explain how bricks have changed over time, how they can be dated, what their historic characteristics are, and how we can attempt to match them today. £65 including light lunch Heritage at Risk 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 18 September 2015 Speakers: John Ette - English Heritage and Dr Alan Coday, Trustee-Director & East Anglian Chairman of the UK Association of Building Preservation Trusts About 4% of grade I and II* listed buildings are at risk. The figures for the far greater number of grade II buildings are not known, but this is a problem currently being investigated by English Heritage. The loss of a historic building diminishes the landscape or townscape in which it is located. Dilapidated landmark buildings blight their surroundings and arouse public indignation. This seminar will look at the potential ways forward available through the planning system and individual or community initiatives, and at funding opportunities. £65 including light lunch 8 Working with Historic Brickwork: Approaches to practical problems 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 2 October 2015 Speaker: Peter Minter, Bulmer Brick and Tile Company Ltd The second course presented by Peter Minter will look at how bricks are used in construction, at mortars, pointing, bonds, arches, cutting and rubbing techniques, and terracotta. It will cover the building of chimneys and structural problems, and will be extensively illustrated with examples from Peter’s experience. £65 including light lunch Building Pathology, Dampness and Timber Decay 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 6 November 2015 Speaker: David Watt, Hutton and Rostron Environmental Investigations Ltd Understanding historic buildings and monuments requires a range of skills, including appreciation and understanding of historical development, construction, condition, performance and use. This is especially important when planning changes and interventions to historic fabric. The discipline of building pathology – defined as the study of failures in the interrelationships of building structures and materials with their environments, occupants and contents – provides a structured, evidence-based approach for investigations and surveys. Such an approach is especially relevant when carrying out investigations of dampness and timber decay, where it is essential to identify and treat underlying causes rather than address only the effects. £65 including light lunch Carpentry and Joinery from Restoration to Regency 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 27 November 2015 Speaker: Joe Bispham, Historic Buildings Consultant & Contractor This session explores the advances made in building construction and the use of imported softwoods in the period from the restoration of Charles II to the Regency period. In a little over 150 years England experienced a building material shortage, a Great fire and the architectural influences of the Grand Tour, all of these influenced the type of building materials used and methods of building construction. It will also illustrate through case studies, repairs to timber structures and external joinery, specifications, craft practices and repair techniques. £65 including light lunch 9 Structural Repairs to Historic Buildings 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 4 December 2015 Speaker: Ian Hume, Structural Engineer Standard engineering solutions to repair problems are often inappropriate for historic buildings. Instead a conservation approach taking into account their construction, materials and character is required. This seminar considers some repairs to the structure of masonry and timber buildings and the philosophy behind them. Ian is a structural engineer who has spent the last 35 years dealing almost exclusively with historic structures from the prehistoric to modern movement buildings. He was chief engineer at English Heritage from 1987 until 1997. £65 including light lunch Good Design for Historic Buildings 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 12 February 2016 Speakers: Hilary Brightman and Natalie Drewett, Hilary Brightman Architects & speaker tbc Repairing and altering a historic building requires a mastery and understanding of traditional materials and detailing, whilst extending them raises more complex issues of avoiding damage to historic interest and character, and achieving sympathetic design solutions. The scope for altering historic buildings without harm to their significance, together with successful design and detailing, will be explored and illustrated with examples. The seminar will be of value to architects, planners and homeowners. £65 including light lunch Heritage Statements and Impact Assessments 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 22 January 2016 Speaker: David Andrews, Historic Buildings Consultant & Libby Kirkby Taylor, Colchester Borough Council The National Planning Policy Framework emphasises the importance of evidence based planning for proposals affecting the historic environment. There is a requirement for applicants to identify the significance of the buildings and sites involved, and the impact of their proposals on that significance. These ‘Heritage statements’ now routinely accompany listed building consent applications. This seminar will look at the policy framework for heritage statements and impact assessments, how they should be structured and what they should include. It will also cover requirements for building recording. £65 including light lunch Tour of a traditional brick works & a guided walk through Bury St Edmunds. 9am to 4.30pm, 18 March 2016 A rare opportunity to visit Bulmer Brick & Tile Company’s brickworks and Bury St Edmunds in the company of one of the country’s leading traditional brick-makers. You will look at and discuss the conservation and repair of historic rubbed and gauged brickwork. The day will help professionals to specify and oversee work in the correct manner, and will also be of interest to the enthusiastic amateur. Bats, Ecology and Listed Buildings 9.30am to 12.30pm, Friday 29 January 2016 Speaker: Duncan Painter, Applied Ecology Historic buildings are ideal places for bats to roost and this lecture will cover the types of places they roost, key indicators of bat presence including building structure and physical evidence and also what to do if you have bats. An overview of a bat survey as well as the law governing historic buildings and bats will be looked at with case studies from listed buildings used throughout. Other protected species will also be considered such as owls and the Great Crested Newt. £65 including light lunch 10 £95 excluding lunch conservation short courses at Anglia Ruskin University To find out more about the new conservation short courses at Anglia Ruskin or the Building Conservation MSc contact Lewis Herbert [email protected] or 0774 863 6153 or ring Dr Alan Coday on 0845 196 3944. working with 11 terms and conditions of booking* Paying for courses Payment must be made in full at the time of booking. Cancellation of course by Essex County Council If the course is cancelled by Essex County Council we will refund you in full or you may transfer on to another course within the same programme. Cancellation of booking by attendees If a booking is cancelled more than two weeks in advance of the start date of the course we will refund you in full. If a booking is cancelled fewer than two weeks before the course, booking fees will not be refunded unless, the course is full and the place can be resold. Changes to published information At the time of publishing all information is correct, however Essex County Council reserves the right to make changes to the programme if necessary. Any people booked on these events and affected by changes will be contacted as soon as possible. your thoughts* Comment from Lime plaster course 2014 “Very informative, enjoyable and well organised. Would recommend to others, value for money” Comment from Timber frame Repairs 2014 “Excellent course I learnt so much, will go on other courses and would like to attend timber frame again next year.” “Great introduction to timber repairs, great tutor and great organiser. Thank you.” Comment form Conservation Brickwork Course 2014 “Excellent course. Great to learn from a true expert. Hands on work gave great opportunity to learn skills” Comment from Bread oven course 2014 “We had a fantastic day, really informative, very well presented. Many many thanks.” Comment from Lime Plaster for Beginners 14 “Mr Cafferty (tutor) achieved the near impossible – successfully imparting 40 plus years of experience” General Comments “What a fantastic service for the council to offer, I wish our council was so involved.” Attendee at the lime plaster course 2014 12 respond* Booking Form To confirm your booking return this form with a cheque, payable to Essex County Council, to: Katie Seabright, Historic Buildings & Conservation, Essex County Council, County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1QH. Tel: 03330 136560 Email: [email protected] Please check availability before sending in payment. Course name: Date of course: Name: Company/organisation: Address: Post code: Tel: Email: How did you hear about our courses We may use your details at a later date to gain feedback on the courses. Help reduce the amount of paper we use. Please tick to receive course information via email. q Thank you. 13 DS15_4733 Page 16 Apply online at www.essex.gov.uk/admissions The Traditional Building Skills training programme is delivered by Place Services, a team of specialists in building conservation, design and the environment providing expertise and advice for local planning authorities. By email: [email protected] Visit our website: www.placeservices.co.uk By telephone: 01245 437 672 By post: Place Services Essex County Council P.O.Box 11 Chelmsford CM1 1QH Read our online magazine at essex.gov.uk/youressex Essex_CC Follow us on Find us on facebook.com/essexcountycouncil The information contained in this leaflet can be translated, and/or made available in alternative formats, on request. Published January 2015.