Two lodges being part of the Whitefoord House residential complex
Address
142 and 144 Calton Road
EH8 8DP Edinburgh, the United Kingdom
General information
Building manager
Scottish Veterans Residences (SVR), a Registered Social Landlord, owns the demo case lodges. SVR Principally provides supported accommodation for homeless military Veterans or those at risk of homelessness. It has three campuses in Edinburgh, Dundee, and Glasgow, with 144 residents. On the Edinburgh campus, there are 74 residents, a mix of 18th—and 20th-century buildings and 85 ensuite rooms/11 flats/1 townhouse.
Edinburgh World Heritage (EWH) is the leader of this demo case.
Building age
18th century (≈1770)
Protection level
B listed (significant examples of a period, style or building type).
Building use
Residential, social housing and part of it is an office space.
Building area
No data.
Construction type
Harled rubble masonry walls.
Building typology
Most of Edinburgh’s Old Town was originally lime-harl rendered because of its double function against severe climate and thermal losses. Accordingly, testing insulated lime render with self-healing properties, planned within FuturHist, is particularly relevant in Edinburgh and Scotland.
Geographical area and context
Edinburgh has a cold and humid winter and mild summer with an annual mean temperature of 9°C. Due to the changing climate, Edinburgh has witnessed wetter winters and hotter summers.
Ongoing activities
The City of Edinburgh Council has set a target to become a net zero city by 2030. In 2020-21, emissions from buildings in Edinburgh made up 66% of the council’s carbon footprint. EWH runs two grant programmes, the Climate Emergency Grant and Conservation Repair Programme, delivering architectural conservation and energy retrofit works to traditional buildings within Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site and its vicinity.
Works planned under the FuturHist project
We will test an innovative self-healing and insulated lime render in the project. It will provide data on the existing and retrofitted performance to test and verify the tools. ‘Before’ monitoring will inform the thermal and environmental performance modelling, and the ‘after’ monitoring will refine this tool. Defining typologies in Scotland will help the demo to situate the lesson learned from the energy solution within the broader context of the building stock in Scotland and the UK.