Understanding Traditional (pre-1919) and Historic Buildings for Construction and Built Environment Courses TEACHING RESOURCE TEACHING Who should use this teaching resource? Princes Foundation Building Crafts Trainee Miriam Johnson gaining hands-on experience working with thatch. The programme involves working on a range of historic buildings using traditional materials and techniques. For more on the Building Crafts programme visit www.princes-foundation.org/education/building-craft- programme-heritage-skills-nvq-level-3. © Princes Foundation This teaching resource will help anyone who is It has been written as an introduction to traditional or will be teaching an understanding of traditional (pre-1919) and historic buildings and presents key (pre-1919) buildings as part of construction and terminology and approaches. built environment courses and qualifications. It will be useful for learners who will work on and It is designed for teachers, construction lecturers plan to work on a range of existing buildings. and assessors at schools, further education colleges and independent training providers. Further information and links to useful resources on careers in the heritage construction sector are provided in the Find out more section, as well as options for further study and training. Mae’r ddogfen yma hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg. This document is also available in Welsh. © Crown copyright 2019 WG37560 Digital ISBN 978-1-83876-519-4 This teaching resource has been written by Cadw and Historic England. © Crown copyright (2019), Cadw, Welsh Government and © Historic England. Version 1, July 2019. Cover photograph: Conservation works in 2018 to repair the chimneys at Castell Coch, a grade I listed building and scheduled monument in south Wales. © Crown copyright (2019), Cadw, Welsh Government 1 Understanding Traditional (pre-1919) and Historic Buildings for Construction and Built Environment Courses Contents ¬ Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, including the significant Blaenavon Ironworks and Big Pit, designated a World Heritage Site as an outstanding and remarkably complete example of a nineteenth-century industrial landscape.To visit this extraordinary site: www.visitblaenavon.co.uk/en/VisitBlaenavon/Visit-Blaenavon.aspx. © Crown copyright (2019), Cadw,Welsh Government Introduction 3 5. Understand and describe the difference in performance characteristics between 1. Identify and describe the age, materials and traditional and modern materials and construction methods of traditional construction methods 21 (pre-1919) and historic buildings 5 6. Identify and describe the causes of common 2. Understand and explain the legislation and defects in traditional (pre-1919) and historic official guidance relating to built heritage 11 buildings, and the range of investigative and 3. Understand and describe the heritage values recording techniques used to understand and significance of traditional (pre-1919) and a building’s condition 23 historic buildings, and how they contribute 7. Understand the range of maintenance to sustainable development 15 and repair operations, and explain the importance of these for maintaining 4. Explore, analyse and evaluate how the traditional buildings 27 principles of conservation are applied in practice, including using traditional skills, 8. Describe and evaluate the benefits, options materials and methods, minimum and risks of energy-efficiency and retrofit intervention, like-for-like repairs and measures, and of climate change adaptation 29 practices 18 Find out more 33 2 Understanding Traditional (pre-1919) and Historic Buildings for Construction and Built Environment Courses Introduction ¬ Heritage Bursary Trainee Painter Decorator Lisa Ferguson applying decorative stenciling within a listed building.The placement involved working on a range of historic and traditional buildings and towards a Heritage NVQ Diploma Level 3. © Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme This teaching resource on traditional (pre-1919) • As an outcome of the Qualifications Wales Sector buildings can be used to support learners on Review of Qualifications in Construction and construction and the built environment courses. the Built Environment, learners on government- funded construction courses at all levels, from It presents a key learning outcome in each chapter, GCSE through to apprenticeships, will develop an explains important terminology and approaches, understanding of the differences between the tools, suggests learning activities and provides links to useful materials, processes, skills and knowledge used for resources. The eight learning outcomes are relevant traditional and modern buildings. A new foundation to a range of construction and built environment qualification will be introduced as part of the roles that may work directly on, or within the setting reforms and included in the first year of all further of traditional (pre-1919) buildings. This includes education construction programmes in Wales. construction trades, site supervision and management, • In England, the Institute for Apprenticeships and building services engineering, and design, surveying Technical Education has developed occupational and planning professions. maps to shape the core content of the new It supports recent developments in the reforms to T Levels and Trailblazer Apprenticeships. apprenticeships and further education and training: The description for a Core Building Tradesperson in the occupational map for construction, for 3 Understanding Traditional (pre-1919) and Historic Buildings for Construction and Built Environment Courses trades such as roofing, brickwork, plasterwork, Working on our built heritage can involve a wide and carpentry and joinery, includes the requirement range of activities including conservation, alteration, for a ‘knowledge of building methods and extension, refurbishment, repair and maintenance, materials including heritage ones and knowledge installation of services and energy-efficiency of appropriate regulations’. retrofit. There are 6.5 million traditional (pre-1919) • In England, the ‘principles of heritage and buildings in England, Scotland and Wales, which conservation, e.g. listed buildings, traditional is approximately 20-30 per cent of all buildings in buildings and maintenance of existing stock’ Great Britain. The number of traditional (pre-1919) is included in the core content of the new buildings in Great Britain provides a significant source Construction T Level for Design, Surveying of work. Repair and maintenance alone (housing and Planning. and non-housing) accounted for 35 per cent of the construction industry in Great Britain in 2016. • The number and range of Trailblazer This means that it is important for all learners to have Apprenticeships available in England is increasing. a knowledge and understanding of how to plan and Many of the employer groups developing the undertake work on traditional (pre-1919) buildings. new apprenticeships have incorporated specific requirements relating to traditional and historic See the Find out more section for more on careers buildings. Examples include the Plasterer, Bricklayer, opportunities in this sector and for additional Stonemason and Chartered Town Planner resources which can be used to help achieve apprenticeships. the learning outcomes suggested in this guide. • Knowledge of traditional (pre-1919) and historic buildings is embedded in the contents of the 14 to 19 UK Standards for Construction and the Built Environment Education. The specialist standard on heritage presents the same learning outcomes that are introduced in this guide. 4 Understanding Traditional (pre-1919) and Historic Buildings for Construction and Built Environment Courses 1. Identify and describe the age, materials and construction methods of traditional (pre-1919) and historic buildings ¬ Traditionally constructed buildings make up part of our built heritage and include nearly all buildings constructed before 1919.They are generally of solid wall (i.e. not cavity wall) or solid timber-frame construction. Our built heritage incorporates both traditional and environment, which also includes ancient monuments, historic buildings. Traditional buildings are usually historic parks, gardens and landscapes, shipwrecks and defined as those constructed before 1919 using battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage solid wall construction methods and materials, Sites. including wood and stone. Construction changed rapidly after this time as new materials and faster The architectural period or style of a building methods of construction were introduced. This was (exterior and interior), its visual appearance and its prompted largely by the national programme of form of construction are the most important ways social house building that was introduced to tackle to determine its age. However, it is also important to the acute shortage of homes after the First World remember that some buildings have more than one War. Nevertheless, traditional buildings remain phase of construction. These phases reflect alterations an important and much loved part of the built to the original fabric, structure and services over environment. There are few towns and villages that a period of time. This means that a single building do not have traditional buildings at their heart, helping can include several different building styles and to create our sense of identity, quality of life and construction details. These changes may alter how the economic prosperity, through tourism for example.