Role
Lecturer and assistant course leader on the MA Architectural Conservation programme.
Design studio unit leader on the BA(Hons) Architecture programme.
Qualifications & background
BA(Hons), DipArch(Ports), RIBA, IHBC
My background is as a conservation architect with over twenty-five years experience in practice. I have investigated, conserved, repaired, upgraded and modified a wide range of existing buildings dating from the Middle Ages to the Modern Movement.
Professional membership
ARBUK Registered Architect
Corporate Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC)
Roles on external bodies
Consultant Editor, Journal of Architectural Conservation www.donhead.com
Member of Technical Panel, IHBC www.ihbc.org.uk
Also a member of the following organisations:
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) www.spab.org.uk
Building Limes Forum www.buildinglimesforum.org.uk
Association for Environment-Conscious Building (AECB) www.aecb.net
The Carpenters' Fellowship www.carpentersfellowship.co.uk
Teaching interests
The use of natural and sustainable building materials, particularly vapour-permeable materials, both for the repair of old buildings and the design of new ones.
The understanding of historic and traditional buildings both as cultural and as physical human creations.
The analysis of historic buildings and places to establish their history and cultural significance, and the development of strategies and designs for their upgrading and continuing beneficial use.
The surveying and pathology of traditional buildings, and the development of strategies and methodologies for their repair.
Design for construction without the use of fossil fuels.
Design for building simply.
Research interests
The environmental performance of traditional buildings (defined in the Building Regulations 2010 as those built of "permeable construction which both absorbs and readily allows the evaporation of moisture").
The hygrothermal behaviour of permeable building materials, and their resulting effects on both the durability of building fabric and on the environmental perfomance of building enclosures.
The historical and modern use of limes in building, including high-calcium limes, hydraulic limes and natural cements.
Publications
Brocklebank, I., 2006: The Lime Spectrum, Context No. 97, November 2006, Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Available at: www.ihbc.org.uk
Brocklebank, I., 2008: Magic Wallpaper and the Problem with Dew, Context No. 103, March 2008, Institute of Historic Building Conservation.Available at: www.ihbc.org.uk
Brocklebank, I., 2009: Developments in the Use of Lime in London c. 1760-1840, Journal of the Building Limes Forum, Volume 16, 2009
Pickles, D., Brocklebank, I. & Wood, C., 2011: Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings - Application of Part L of the Building Regulations to Historic and Traditionally Constructed Buildings, Product code 51693, English Heritage. Available at www.english-heritage.org.uk
Reports & invited lectures
Holden in Heathrowland, April 2004. Invited lecture organised by Modern Railways magazine exploring the legacy of Charles Holden's modern movement Underground stations for the early 1930s extensions of the Piccadilly Line, and issues arising from their maintenance and upgrading.
Discovering Modern 'Breathable'/Insulating mortars, Plasters and Renders, 30th March 2010. Invited chair of SPAB technical Event.
Traditional Domestic Buildings and Energy Efficiency, autumn 2010. Invited lecturer on a series of training event run as part of English Heritage's HELM programme (Historic Environment Local Management).
Conferences organised
Breathability and Sustainability. Organiser and chair of a day conference at the annual meeting of the Building Limes Forum, Ironbridge Institute, 23rd September 2011
Other academic activities
Science and Heritage. Oral evidence given on behalf of the IHBC to House of Lords Science and Technology Committee enquiry into "Science and the Heritage", 21st March 2006. Published in: House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, 9th Report of Session 2005-06, Science and Heritage: Report with Evidence, HL Paper 256, November 2006, London, The Stationery Office.
National Heritage Science Strategy. Corresponding member on behalf of the IHBC on the development of the UK National Heritage Science Strategy. Final reports are available at http://nhss.english-heritage.org.uk
