2017 CONSERVATION DAY
Challenges and Conflicts in Building Conservation
Our annual Conservation Day was held on Wednesday 22nd November 2017 at The Chantry House, Henley on Thames, a beautiful Grade I medieval timber framed building. Oxley Conservation is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Joe Thompson, who has been working with historic timber frames since 1989 and is currently carpenter-in-residence at the Weald and Downland Museum, gave a talk on his journey from carpenter to conservator.
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Our Director, Richard Oxley, opened the seminar with a speech on timber-framed buildings. Richard has an active interest in the traditional repair of old buildings, including developing the link between sustainability and traditionally constructed buildings.
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Michael Dunn, who has worked for English Heritage/Historic England since 2003 and has been the Principal Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas for London since 2012, then gave a talk on "The Chantry House in the context of late medieval urban timber-framed buildings".
Simon Corbey from The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products and who is on the advisory committee of UCL MSc Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings, gave a talk on "Materials for health and indoor air quality".
The day was well received with positive feedback for a very well run and informative day.
Please contact us on 01491 414191 or [email protected] if you would like further information about our next course.
Phil Ogley of Oxley Conservation rounded off the day with a quiz on wood. Attendees had to identify types of wood, fungi, joints, frass and beetle damage from various samples provided.
Steve Finney, a traditionally trained carpenter and joiner, who worked in the family trade before leaving school and who now leads a team of clerk of works that inspects and reports on quality issues across the south of England, gave a talk on "Measurement and proportions in historic carpentry".
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