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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 1999 Supported by the European Union Leonardo da Vinci Programme, ‘Transfusion’ Project |
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As hosts to the event, the Building Research Establishment (BRE) had an opportunity to present some of their services, which could be of use to conservation. Peter Trotman, from the BRE’s Centre for Whole Life Studies, spoke about their efforts to make what he called‘3-D models of costs’ over the life span of a building. Their work tried to evaluate the cost of materials compared with the cost of a building in use in terms of energy. maintenance, wear and so on. Trotman did admit that the idea of using high quality materials initially to offset maintenance and running costs did not seem to have been generally accepted, although there was some evidence that attitudes were changing. |
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And Fran Novak introduced the BRE’s Calibre construction process model designed to identify areas of inefficiency on projects and remedy them | |
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