Vernacular Buildings Conference Programme

Wednesday 16th February 2011, New Lanark Mill Hotel

Download Programme [118 kb]

9.00	Registration and coffee
9.30	Welcome - Ewan Hyslop, Historic Scotland
9.40	"A good hat and boots" - Care and repair of Scotland's vernacular buildings. Chris McGregor, Historic Scotland
10.05	Early Portland cements and mass concrete construction in remote areas: an unrecognised resource. Andrew Wright OBE, Conservation Advisor
10.30	Brick in vernacular construction. Moses Jenkins, Historic Scotland.
11:00	Questions & Answers
11.10	Coffee Break
11:30	Turf and wood vernacular structures. Dr Alasdair Ross, University of Stirling
11:55	Building's of the Scottish coal industry - a lost industrial vernacular. Miles Oglethorpe, Historic Scotland
12:20	Extreme and random rubble - A rubbish building tradition? Stuart Eydmann, West Lothian Council
12:45	Timber and the Scottish vernacular "a few offcuts". Geoffrey Stell, consultant.
13:10	Questions and answers
13:20	Lunch
14:20	Scottish stone dry walling. Richard Love, consultant.
14:45	St Kilda - Scotland's world class vernacular landscape. Robin Turner, RCAHMS.
15:10	Regional Case Study. Dara Parsons, Historic Scotland.
15:35	Questions and Answers
15:45	Tour of New Lanark Mill (optional)
17:00	Finish