Feasibility Studies and Retrofit Assessments
Feasibility Studies and Retrofit Assessments for Historic Buildings
Comprehensive, Bespoke Solutions for Long-Term Sustainability
Feasibility Studies
At Cymes Conservation, we specialize in finding economically viable and sustainable new uses for your redundant historic building.
Our feasibility studies are designed to help you to develop your vision by appraising the architectural options available to you, and working in collaboration with other specialists such as community consultation and business planners.
Our approach includes:
- Economic Viability: We assess the financial feasibility of potential new uses for your historic building, ensuring that any proposed solution is both economically sound and sustainable.
- Architectural Options: Our team will explore various architectural possibilities to transform your building while preserving its historic integrity.
- Collaboration with Specialists: We work closely with community consultation experts and business planners to ensure that your project meets the needs of all stakeholders and aligns with broader community goals.
Retrofit Assessments
Our retrofit assessments are essential for anyone looking to improve the energy efficiency of historic buildings.
At Cymes Conservation, we understand the delicate balance required to enhance a building’s performance while preserving its historical value.
Key aspects of our retrofit assessments include:
- Energy Efficiency: We evaluate your building’s current energy performance and identify opportunities for improvement, ensuring that any retrofits are in line with conservation best practices.
- Historic Integrity: Our assessments are conducted with a deep respect for the historical significance of your building, ensuring that any interventions are sympathetic to its heritage.
- Customized Solutions: We provide tailored recommendations that consider the unique characteristics of your building, offering practical solutions that enhance efficiency without compromising its historic fabric.
Bespoke Service for Your Unique Building
Each historic building is different and comes with its own set of challenges.
Our team spends time understanding your building, its systems, and usage. We then consult and inform, enabling your staff and building users to make behavioural changes that contribute to energy efficiency.
This isn’t just about delivering a project; it’s about adding value to your building for the long term.
Long-Term Implications: Cost Versus Value
We go beyond short-term solutions and consider the long-term implications of our work.
Our ‘cost vs. value’ approach ensures that you’re making an investment for the future, which goes beyond simple cost savings to include sustainability and enhanced property value.
Ready to Make a Sustainable Change?
Choosing Cymes Conservation means benefiting from our extensive experience and expertise in working with historic buildings. Our services are designed to support architects, building historians, and property owners in preserving and repurposing heritage sites. We combine a deep understanding of historical architecture with innovative approaches to sustainability, ensuring that your building remains both functional and historically significant.
If you are considering a feasibility study or retrofit assessment for your historic building, get in touch with us today.
Our Services
We provide conservation accredited repairs to historic buildings and interventions such as extensions with in historic settings. As historic building consultant, we offer advice independently to our clients, or steer your project’s architect and design team to successfully negotiate working with a listed building.
Conservation Repairs
Specialist techniques and knowledge of traditional materials such as lime mortars, plasters, stone, brick and oak framing are used to conserve your historic building.
Heritage Statements
We’ll research and define historical significance, then assess the impact of your proposals and provide justification with the legislation and the National Planning Policy Framework.
New Interventions
Designing with contemporary flair in a contextual manner, bespoke to your needs, in a way that is sensitive and appropriate to your listed building and its conservation area .
Condition Surveys
The basis of most projects, this to inform repair requirements, including quinquennial surveys for churches. We consult with specialist quantity surveyors to cost and prioritise repairs over the short, medium and long term. Combine this service with maintenance planning and a retrofit assessment.
Feasibility Studies
Finding economically viable and sustainable new uses your redundant historic building. We’ll help you develop your vision appraising the architectural options and work in collaboration with specialists such as community consultation and business planners.
Building Recording
Carried out to Historic England’s Level 1, 2, 3 or 4 standard, our recording is informed by understanding of architectural and social history, an investigative eye, then presented with clear exquisite architectural photography that captures detail, character and atmosphere.
