Energy saving and environmental control

Re: Passive environmental control

In Instance 10:67, Todd Ellison asks what can be done to control the
environment without using equipment that is expensive to purchase
and expensive to run.  The answer is that a great deal can be done
by careful design, making sure that thermal gain from outside is
minimised.  The Suffolk County Record Office (England) achieved this
by having a double wall construction, a roof with large overhangs to
reduce sunlight shining into the (few) windows, and by isolating the
roof structure from the rest of the building.  This was written up
by David R Jones in "A stable future for Suffolk's archives" in
'Storage', ed Mark Norman and Victoria Todd, UKIC, 1991, 27-32.

Barry Knight
English Heritage
London

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 10:69
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