Looking Before You Leap – The Importance of Inspections and Introspection Before Making Change

The series is part of SPAB Ireland's 2022 Campaign - 'Sustainability of Vernacular Irish Buildings' and is supported by the Heritage Council under the Heritage Capacity Funding 2022.

This lecture will cover:

The importance of inspections
Getting to know your old building
Identifying and dealing with dampness and general repairs in advance of dealing with eco retrofit,
Thermal upgrades

Frank Keohane is an architectural historian and building surveyor specialising in the conservation of traditional and historical buildings of all shapes and sizes. He is the author of Irish Period Houses - A Conservation Guidance Manual (Dublin Civic Trust, 2016) and The Buildings of Cork: City and County (Yale University Press, 2020).